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WiLLEY's Book of Nutfield 



A History of that Part of New Hampshire Comprised 

within the Limits of the Old Township 

of Londonderry 

FROM ITS SETTLEMENT IN 1719 TO THE PRESENT TIME 



COMPILED FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES AND EDITED 

BY 

Gkorgk K. Willky 



biographical, genealogical, political, anecdotal 



ILLUSTRATED WITH HALF-TONE AND STEEL ENGRAVINGS 



1895: 
\ OEORGE K. WILLEY, Publisher 

DERRY DEPOT, N. H. 






Copyright, 1895, by George F. Willey 






INTRODUCTORY. 



In presenting this work to the pubhc, the publisher desires simply to call attention to the 
fact that no worthy attempt has ever been made to write the histor_y of that large portion of 
Rockingham County which was originall}' known as Nutfield. The present work is intended to 
supply this deficiency, by giving a connected and comprehensive account of the original town- 
ship of Londonderry, from its earliest settlement down to the present day. The editor believes 
this can best be done, not hx means of a dry catalogue of names and dates, or a lifeless record 
of the proceedings of town meetings, but by vivid presentations of the lives and characters oi 
the leading men and women. Here is the material for real histor}'. Back of the so-called pub- 
lic events behind the acts of public bodies, lie the causes which spring from the character of the 
people, and alwa3-s in them centres our real interest. In the southwestern part of Rockingham 
Count}' are many historic places. Many of her citizens have played as prominent a part in the 
life of State and Nation as those of any other section of New Hampshire. To pay fitting honor 
to the men and women of the past, and at the same time do adequate justice to those of the 
present, is the object ot this work. 

It is no easy task to write history, even of the simplest kind, and be absolutely correct in 
every detail; so much is missing to make the picture complete. In the present work no attempt 
is made to give the name and history of every man, woman and child who ever lived within the 
confines of what was once Nutfield ; but the editor can truly say that no one is omitted who 
has pla3'ed a prominent part in the histor}- of the old town. From a mass of historical, biograph- 
ical and genealogical data, a careful selection of the most interesting and significant anecdotes and 
incidents has been made, and these are more helpful to an understanding ot the past than 
mere dates and names. The greater part of this material is here published for the first time. 

The greatest care has been exercised in the choice of illustrations. They are all executed 
in the best style of the half-tone art, and include portraits of men and women of former genera- 
tions, as well as of the present; illustrations of old-time homes and of modern residences, churches, 
schools and public buildings; pictures of historic places, etc. Nothing so complete in a pictorial 
way was ever before attempted in New Hampshire, and the publisher is confident that his efforts 
will be appreciated. Illustrations have rightly come to be as necessary nowadays as the printed 
word in any work of an historical character, and due regard to the prevailing demand has been 
made in the present book. 

In the treatment of the multifarious and complex life of the present, all its various factors 
and phases, material, intellectual, moral and social, have been taken into consideration. Whether 
or not ample justice has been done to each, the discriminating reader must determine. The 
editor would only say in his own behalf that he has conscientiously endeavored to giye a faithful 



6 INTRODUCTORY. 

picture of present conditions as they prevail within the borders of the old township of London- 
derr}-, and believes that the work is a substantial and valuable contribution to the history of 
New Hampshire. 

An historical sketch of ever}' church societ}' and of every permanent organization and 
institution of whatever nature that has ever existed within the territorv covered by the work has 
been prepared from authentic and hitherto unpublished records. This feature of the book gives 
it incalculable \alue and interest not alone to the present but to posterity. The biographies of 
all ministers, teachers and public men who have been identified with the material or spiritual life 
and growth of the town, or who have left upon it the impress of their personalities, are also 
given, so that the work is thus a valuable reference book. In the biographies are included the 
lives of man}' who were natives ol the town, but who have w^on enviable distinction in other 
States. 

An invaluable feature of the work is the section map of the old town of Londonderry, 
here published for the first time. It shows the names and locations of all the original land 
owners, and thus possesses unique archaeological and antiquarian interest. 

The work is published in parts, the publisher having become convinced that such an 
arrangement would be far more satisfactory to the great majority of subscribers than if the book 
were issued all at once. In the latter case the date of publication could be no earlier than 
that of the final instalment, so that no time is lost. 

Bespeaking for the work a generous patronage and an impartial criticism of its merits as 
well as of its defects, the publisher trusts that the "Book of Nutfield ■" may fill an honorable 
niche in the historical literature of New Hampshire. 

George F. Willey. 



THE DOUBLE RANGE IN NUTFIELD. 



BY REV. JESSE G. McMURPHY. 



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N the 25th of December, 17 19, seven rep- 
resentative men, chosen by the people 
of the Nutfield settlement for managing the 
public affairs, David Cargill, James McKeen, 
James Gregg, Robert Wear, John Morrison, 
Samuel Graves and John Goffe, decided to 
reward the earliest settlers for their courage and 
diligent efforts in occupying a new territory 
remote from other settlements, and at the same 
time adopted a method of rewarding that should 
tend to attract the relatives and friends of those 
already located along the banks of Westrunning 
Brook. The plan adopted b_v the committee at 
that meeting was duly recorded in the Proprie- 
tors' Book and immediately carried into execu- 
tion. By this plan each one of the original 
settlers, to the number of twenty persons, was 
granted a lot of land suitable for a homestead, 
upon which relatives or friends might locate at 
the invitation of the grantee, with a reasonable 
provision or condition that the person invited 
should be a desirable neighbor and ready to 
make an immediate clearing and settlement. It 
is interesting to pursue the record and observe 
the list of names, the pioneers of a township 
that has become rather famous in the production 
of generations of hardy, enterprising men who 
have continued building towns and cities from 
the Atlantic to the Pacific, and are found in 
ever}' State. As far as it is possible to decipher 
the writing of a list of names, all but three of 
which arc on the margin of the page, in a vol- 
ume that thousands have handled and turned to 



the sunlight until the ink has nearl}^ faded from 
sight, the first twenty settlers in Nuttield were: 
James McKeen, John Barnard, 

James Gregg, Archibald Clendennen, 

Samuel Graves, James Clark, 

David Cargill, James Nesmith, 

Robert Wear, John Goffe, 

John Morrison, Elias Ke3'es, 

James Anderson, Joseph Simonds, 

Thomas Steele, James Alexander. 

Allen Anderson, James Sterrat, 

John Gregg, Samuel Allison. 

This action of the seven prudential com- 
mittee-men was not fully acquiesced in b}' the 
little colony of Nutfield. In fact the divisions 
that unhappily disturbed the peace of the old 
country were not all healed by emigration to a 
new coimtr}'. The colonists were divided in 
both civil and religious allegiance. While per- 
petuating the principles of freedom in speech 
and laith, they found themselves compelled to 
proceed humbly in asking for grants of land 
under the protection of the Crown. The rela- 
tions ot the settlers on the various ranges into 
which Nutfield was divided were somewhat 
strained. There were many abuses of privileges 
and much intolerance, incident to the pioneer 
period of a new country. The English church- 
men were in a minority, and greatl}' maligned 
by the Scotch, who came to America as disaf- 
fected and aggrieved occupants of confiscated 
lands in the northern counties of Ireland, de- 
spising the Irish, whom they had displaced, for 



WILLETS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



their obedience to a foreign religious potentate, ine tlie thick growth of forests largely com- 
and hating the English with a national rancor posed of walnut, chestnut, butternut and oak, 
for having gained authorit}' over them by the and wild game, some of it unpleasantly fierce 
treachery and baseness of court favorites. Less and dangerous to encounter alone or without 
than six months after the action of the seven, arms. It required some time for each family 
or in June, 1720, a large proportion of the col- to clear away timber enough to let in the sun- 
onists of Nutfield were complaining about the shine and build a log cabin. The cabins dotted 
character of the men that were being invited to the slopes a little back from the brook, prob- 
settle upon the late divisions of land. Some of ably concealed from each other by the forests, 
these new arrivals were deprived of their lots and reached by private paths hastily cut among 
and forbidden to remain in the town; and on the trees. On a frosty morning the white curl- 
June 29, 1720, the sentiment of the town ran so ing smoke from the cabins along Westrunning 
directly against the actions of that immigration Brook rising over the tops of the trees mav 
committee (or Immigrant Bureau), that a gen- have been a pleasing feature of pioneer life. 
eral meeting was called for July 25. The oppo- In order to have corn and beans and other gar- 
sition was strong enough to dismiss the over- den crops before fields could be cleared around 
zealous friends of the colonization scheme; but each cabin, the settlers combined their strength 
the}' and their sympathizers, mostly inclined and cleared a tract of land together, and all 
toward liberal views of the Ro3'al prerogatives, joined in planting and cultivating this tract, and 
appealed to the General Court, and on the same the name by general consent became the Com- 
da}', before leaving the place of meeting, the mon Field. It is easily recognized now on the 
former party outnumbered their opponents and west side of the turnpike about a mile below 
reversed the late decision against the committee, Derry Lower Village, and just north of the 
reinstating them in full power to continue the brook. The map will enable the reader to 
allotment of additional lands to the first twenty locate the Common Field of the early settlers 
settlers. The Scotch immigrants were often at the south end of the Gregg land. The 
more wary than wise, but in all the conflicts of engraving is intended to give a view of the 
the last two thousand years this characteristic homesteads in their position and relative pro- 
of the race has been manifested, that wherever portions. 

they have not the requisite arms or force to For convenience in visiting one another, 

prevail over their adversaries they avoid an these families had their homesteads laid out in 

open test. They have no very high regard for narrow farms of sixty acres each, arranged in 

the authorit}^ set up on the turn of a battle or parallel lines so that the cabins, all being at 

the scratch of a pen. The}' do not think it the ends of the farms, were not over thirty 

meritorious to stand up against an army to be rods apart, and by placing two ranges together, 

shot down just to see which party can stand both facing the brook, the cultivated ends 

the most charges of gunpowder and ball. approaching each other, two rows of rude cabins 

The English in Nutfield found it conducive were stretched along Westrunning Brook from 

to their comfort to remain apart from the other the point where it empties into Beaver Brook, 

settlers, and in the laying out of homesteads then called a river, to the most easterly side of 

managed to secure a range of fine land that in the settlement, about five hundred rods distant, 

a short period became known as the English As the farms were three hundred and twenty 

Range. The Wentworths and many loyal sub- rods in length the Double Range embraced an 

jects to the Crown formed almost a separate area of two thousand acres. 

colony in the town. The appearance of the To identify the sites of the original settlers 

settlement along the banks of the Westrunning a few directions only are requisite. The easiest 

Brook in 1720 must have been romantic. Imag- method is that of following the record of the 



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laying out of a highway, always bearing in mind 
the dimensions of the original homesteads. The 
position of the highways will indicate the situ- 
ation of the cabins, and quite frequentl}- the 
record indicates on which side of the road one 
must look for traces of the log cabins and culti- 
vated fields. A clearer understanding of the 
situation of the settlers' cabins in the south 
part of the Double Range is afforded by a quo- 
tation from the old Proprietors' Book. It will 
be seen in the record that the name of Nutfield 
had given place to that of l-^ondonderry as the 
one finally fixed by the Charter of King George 
I., June 2 1, 1722 : 

Loiuloiuleny, June i, 1723. Laid out Isy the Selectmen 
a highway beginning at the lower side of James Doak's 
lot and so running easterly across the said lot to John Ander- 
son's lot, and from thence to Abel Merrill's lot, and from 
thence to Randall Alexander's lot, and so to the south side 
of Robert Doak's house, across his lot, and across Alex- 
ander Walker's lot, and so to John Clark's lot easterly, 
and so across James Anderson's lot as near easterh' as good 
ground is convenient, and so across James Alexander's lot 
as the highway now runs, and from thence across James 
Morrison's lot, John Mitchell's lot, Archibald Clendennen's 
lot, and John Barnard's lot, as the highway now runs, and 
from thence aci-oss until it comes to that road that goes up 
between Mr. McKeen's lot and John Barnard's lot, and the 
said highwa\' is to he continued and kept clear four rods 
wide. 

James Moore, 

James Nichols, 

John Blaui, 

Bkxjamin Wilson, j 
Recorded this 20th da^' of Jime, 1723. 

Per John MacMurphy, To-a:n Clerk. 

A more satisfactory proof of the relati\-e 
positions of the early homes of these families 
could not be found in all the traditions or 
annals of living descendants, however carefully 
handed down from generation to generation. 
The place of beginning as shown in the map is 
immediately south of the junction of Westrun- 
ning Brook with Beaver River or brook. As 
these homesteads were only thirty rods wide, 
the average distances between the homes must 
be within that limit, and it appears in the record 
that no lot was vacant in 1723. Some of these 
settlers became discontented, and removed to 
other parts of the town in a few 3'ears from the 



[■ Selectmen. 



time of la\'ing out this road, and a few of them 
joined other colonies. In the allotment of sec- 
ond di\isions of about forty acres to each inhab- 
itant, quite a large proportion of them discovered 
advantages in changing their residences from 
the homestead to the second division, perhaps 
in the quality of the soil, the quantity of meadow 
accessible or the presence of good springs of 
water. 

In some instances descendants of the first set- 
tlers in the Double Range remained upon the 
same homesteads until the present generation. 
Sometimes they have returned to their native 
town to purchase again the old homesteads that 
passed out of the family some generations ago. 
The descendants wherever found manifest a 
livel)' interest in the history of the earlv pio- 
neer days of a wonderful people that came a 
long distance to settle in the wilds of America 
and found a great commonwealth in the Occi- 
dent. 

The McKeens lived on their ancestral lands 
until a comparativel}' recent period. The Clarks 
remained for inan}- generations on the same 
homestead allotments, their late residences being- 
well known bv the present inhabitants of the 
town. The Greggs have continued the family 
name for a hundred and seventy-five years on 
the same lands made notable by reason of cer- 
tain considerations relating to the privilege of 
owning and operating sawmill and gristmill upon 
Beaver River. The McGregors, Nesmiths, Mor- 
risons, Alexanders and several other families 
ha\e continued their names in unbroken lines 
down to the present, either upon original allot- 
ments for homesteads, second divisions or amend- 
ments. Some of the pioneers whose naines 
apj^ear upon the map of the Double Range, 
although manifestly entitled to a reward of addi- 
tional land on the da\" of the meeting of the 
Committee of Seven, are not mentioned in the 
record, probably for political reasons, and some 
whose names appear in the list had no home- 
stead in the section covered by the engraving. 
The homesteads of those not represented on the 
map are to be found chiefly in the section called 
the English Range, of which a map and de- 



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scription are given in the succeeding part of 
this History. 

In the Century sermon delivered b}' the 
Rev. E. L. Parker, April 27, 1819, is found a 
list of the tirst sixteen families settled in this 
town, differing slightly from the former records, 
but sufliciently identical to establish the fact that 
the descendants of most of these families were 
desirous of perpetuating a division of interests, 
feelings and sentiments that prevailed from the 
earliest period of the town's corporate existence: 
James McKeen, James Clai^k, 

John Barnett, James Nesmith, 

Archibald Clendennen, Allen Anderson, 
John INIitchell, Robert Wear, 

James Sterrat, John Morrison, 

James Anderson, Samuel Allison, 

Randall Alexander, Thomas Steele, 

James Gregg, John Stewart. 

The apparent discrepanc}' is easily explained 
by understanding the relationship of persons of 
the same surnames, or the maiden names of the 
mothers of the households, or the transfer of 
homesteads from parent to child, many house- 
holds being composed of grown up sons and 



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AN OLD TlMIi RESIDENCE, NOW STANDING IN DERRY. 

daughters when the emiorants arrived at the 
place of settlement. 

A single description of a homestead lot in 
the Double Range will enable the reader to 
understand the plan adopted by the Selectmen 
in laying out the land and give a specimen of 



the form of record found in the Proprietors' 
Book: 

Nutfield, 1720. Laid out to James Anderson a lot of 
land in the above said town, containing sixty acres, and 
is bounded as followeth : beginning at a small red oak tree 
marked near Westrnnning Brook, from thence running due 
south three hundred and twenty rods and bounding upon 
James Alexander's lot unto a stake and stones, from thence 
running west thirty rods unto a stake and stones, from 
thence running due north three hundred and twenty rods 
and bounding upon John Clark's lot unto a small white 
oak tree marked, standing by the aforesaid brook, from 
thence running up the brook to the bounds first mentioned, 
together with an interest in the common or undi\ided lands 
of the said township equal to other lots in the said town. 

James McKeen, 
James Gregg, 
Samuel ISIoore. 
James Alexander. 
John Coghran, 
James McNeal, 
Recorded this 2nd da}' of March, 1721. 

Per John Goffe, Toi.cn Clerk. 

This James Anderson had five sons and 
two daughters, which illustrates the method 
assumed to cover all apparent diflerences in 
names of proprietors to lots, where the same 
lots are mentioned as assigned to other and 
various persons in a short space of time, thus 
complicating the task of mapping the township. 
By reference to the position of the first meeting- 
house on the map it will be seen that the East 
Village of Derry occupies the upper ends of a 
few of the farms of the Double Range. 

The Rev. James McGregor exchanged thirty 
acres of his homestead for thirty acres of Allen 
Anderson's homestead prior to March. 1721, 
gfivins: Allen Anderson the southern half of his 
land and taking the northern half of his neigh- 
bor, which arrangement provided for the abun- 
dant space for common and gravej-ard around 
the spot chosen for the meeting house. The 
highwa}' leading southward along the west side 
of the cemeter}' is readih' identified as the south 
road of the records, and the position of the adjoin- 
ing farms identifies the original proprietors so 
that further notes upon the original occupation 
of the Double Range would be superfluous in 
a general review. 



WILLIAM H. ANDERSON 



WILLIAM H. ANDERSON'S earliest Amer- 
ican ancestor was James Anderson, one 
of the sixteen original proprietors of the town. 
fames Anderson settled in that part of London- 
derry now called Deny, and his oldest son 
received his father's " second division " or 
"amendment land," which comprised a large 
tract lying on Beaver 



Brook in the south- 
ern part of the town. 
A portion of this 
tract has been 
handed down from 
father to son for hve 
generations to the 
subject of this 
sketch. Combining 
as it does so many 
natural attractions 
and family associa- 
tions, Mr. x\nderson 
has delighted to im- 
prove it and make 
it a place of his fre- 
quent resort. On this 
farm Mr. Anderson 
was born, Jan. 12, 
1836. He was the 
son of Francis D. 
Anderson and Jane 
Davidson of Wind- 
ham. He pursued 
his preparatory stud- 
ies at Kimball Union 
Academy, Meriden, 
N.H.,and at Phillips 
Academ}-, Andover, Mass. He entered Yale 
College in 1855, graduating four years later. 
He then went to Mississippi, and was a 
tutor in a private family in Natchez in 
that State and in New Orleans till ill-health 
compelled his return north in the fall of i860. 
He was admitted to the bar of Middlesex 
County, Mass., at Lowell, in December, 1862, 
and has practised law there since. In 1868-69 





he was a member of the Common Council at 
Lowell, and during the latter j-ear he was pres- 
ident of that body. For several years he was 
a member of the School Committee of Lowell. 
In 1 87 1 and 1872 he was a member of the 
Massachusetts House of Representatives. Since 
the latter date he has held no public office, but 

has devoted himself 
closely to the prac- 
tice of his profes- 
sion. Oct. I, 1868, 
he married Mar}' A., 
daughter of Joseph 
H i n e. His o n ly 
child, Frances W., 
was born Dec. 20, 






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High minded and 
generous as the early 
Scotch-Irish settlers 
of Nutlield were they 
naturally had some 
of the defects of their 
virtues, and it is 
quite possible that 
even in their prim- 
itive surroundings 
worldl}' pride some- 
times asserted itself. 
Illustrative of this is 
the anecdote related 
of the wife of the 
oldest John ^Nlorri- 
son. When he was 
building his first rude dwelling in London- 
derr}' she came up to him one day and, twining 
her arms affectionately around his neck, said: 
"Well, well, dear John, if it must be a log- 
house, do make it a log higher than the rest.'' 

The chronicles are silent on the point 
whether the Covenanter rebuked his wife's sin- 
ful pride, or whether he yielded to the temp- 
tation. 



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GENERAL JOHN STARK. 



AMONG the sons of Nutfield who have left Here John Stark was born, Aug. 28, 1728, the 

upon the world the impress of a strong second of four sons. In 1736 his father removed 

personality none has achieved a more enduring to Manchester, then Derryfield, and here John 

fame than General lohn Stark. His character remained until he was twenty-seven years old. 

combined all the rugged traits of a born war- He was a strong, athletic youth, self-reliant and 



rior with a patriot's disinter- 
ested love of country. He 
possessed in a marked degree 
those stern qualities which have 
characterized military heroes in 
all ages, but in his case they 
were not tainted by selfishness. 
Courage, energy, quickness, re- 
sourcefulness, unbending integ- 
rity, enabled him to perform 
distinguished services tor his 
country, and these qualities 
were softened by gentler graces 
of the heart. Of all the strik- 
ing types of character which 
the Colonial wars and the Rev- 
olution developed, his was the 
most original and picturesque. 
Time has but added to his 
fame, and to all sons of the 
Granite State he represents to- 
day the ideal of military glor}-. 
His statue in Monument Hall 
at the National Capitol will 
help to perpetuate his memory 
to all coming generations. 

In John Stark's veins coursed 
the blood of a hardy, intrepid. 
God-fearing ancestry. His 
father, Archibald Stark, was a 
Scotchman by birth who had 
emigrated to Londonderry, Ire- 
land, whence in 1720 he em- 
barked for New Hampshire. 
Arriving at Boston late in the autumn, many of mediately seized the latter and then ordered 
the immigrants were ill with the small-pox and John to hail the other two and bring them 
were not permitted to land. In consequence, ashore. He advised them to pull for the oppo- 
they spent the winter on the coast of Maine, site shore, and they immediately sprang to their 
and the following spring joined their Scottish oars. Four of the Indians raised their guns and 
friends, who had preceded them, at Nutfield. fired, but John, who was watching their move- 




STATUE OF GENERAL STARK. 

Ill Monument Hall, Washington, D. C. 



fearless, full of the fire and 
energy which distinguished his 
later career. Fond of adven- 
ture, he went deep into the 
wilderness to the northwestern 
part of the State on a hunt- 
ing expedition, with his elder 
brother William, David Stin- 
son of Londonderry and Amos 
Eastman of Concord. Coming 
upon a trail of ten Indians, 
they began to make prepara- 
tions to return, and John, who 
was collecting the traps a little 
distance from his companions, 
was suddenly surrounded and 
seized by the savages, who 
demanded to know where the 
others were. Thinking only of 
the safety of his friends, he 
pointed in a wrong direction 
and succeeded in leading the 
Indians two miles out of the 
way. Had it not been for the 
signal guns of his fellow- 
hunters, which they, alarmed 
at his long absence, fired for 
his return, they would have 
escaped. Guided by the sound, 
the savages retraced their steps 
and came upon them moving 
down the river, William Stark 
and Stinson in a boat and East- 
man on the bank. Thev im- 



WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



ments, leaped forward and knocked two of the 
guns in the air. The others then tired, but 
John again struck the barrels aside Irom their 
aim. One shot, however, took effect, and young 
Stinson fell back in the boat dead. William 
Stark escaped, and the Indians, maddened at 
their failure, fell upon John and beat him cruelly. 
On the return of the party to St. Francis the 
two prisoners were compelled to run the gaunt- 
let. Eastman, who passed first through the 
lines, was terribly bruised, but John .Stark was 
not the man to submit tameh* to a flogging. 
Approaching the fearful lines of warriors, with 
their uplifted rods and bludgeons, he snatched 
a club from the nearest one and sprang forward, 
swinging the club swiftly around his head, deal- 
ing- blows rio'ht and left and making- a terrible 
path for himself through the throng. He re- 
mained three or four months with the Indians 
who found him a rather unprofitable captive. 
When ordered to hoe corn he cut it up and 
left the weeds standing, and finally threw his 
hoe into the river. Instead of being exasper- 
ated at this defiant spirit, his captors were 
pleased with it, and adopted him as a 3-oung 
chief into their tribe. At length he was ran- 
somed for one hundied and three dollars, while 
the savages demanded but sixt}' for Eastman. 

When the French war broke out a corps of 
rangers was raised in New Hampshire and 
placed under Robert Rogers. Stark joined this 
corps as lieutenant and marched to Fort Edward. 
He was at the fort when Colonel Williams fell 
in the attack on Baron Dieskau and heard the 
uproar of the after-battle in which General John- 
son was victorious over the French and Indians. 
Soon afterward his regiment was disbanded and 
he returned home, joining soon, however, another 
company of rangers as first lieutenant and doing- 
service at the garrisons between Lake George 
and the Hudson River. In the winter of 1757 
an expedition commanded by Major Rogers, 
with Stark as one of the officers, was fitted out 
to go down Lake Gem^ge toward Ticonderoga. 
Learning from prisoners whom they took on the 
way, that there was a large force of French and 
Indians at Ticonderoga, Rogers ordered a retreat. 



In single file, Rogers ahead and Stark in the 
rear, the company of seventy-four men marched 
back over the snow for more than a mile. 
Suddenl}-, on ascending- a hill, they found them- 
selves face to face with two hundred men, 
drawn up in a semicircle, awaiting their approach. 
So unexpected was the meeting that the head 
of the line of rangers was not twenty feet iVom 
the enemy when the}' received the first fire. 
Staggered by the sudden vollies, the}' fell back 
down the hill, leaving the snow red with their 
blood. Stark, who was on a hill about fifteen 
rods in the rear, opened a fierce fire on the 
pursuers, which allowed Rogers time to rally 
his men. Forming their little band in order of 
battle, and taking the centre themselves, Rogers 
and Stark repelled every attack of the enemv 
until sunset. Rogers being wounded, the com- 
mand devolved on Stark, and he realized that 
the safety of his men depended on their hold- 
ing their ground until after dark. A bullet 
struck the lock of his gun and shattered it to 
pieces, but he cast it aside and springing for- 
ward on a Frenchman, who was reeling back 
in the snow, shot through the body, he 
wrenched the gun from his dying grasp and 
renewed the fight. Thus he stood and fought 
in snow four feet deep until night came on 
and the enemy withdrew. He then ordered a 
retreat, and the wounded and bleeding company 
marched all night through the woods and 
halted in the morning- on Lake Georg-e. It be- 
ing impossible for the wounded to proceed 
further on foot, Stark offered to push on to 
Fort William Henry, forty miles distant, and 
get aid. He had marched all the previous 
forenoon, fought from two o'clock till dark a 
vastly superior force, retreated on toot all night, 
and now, in the morning, without rest, he ofi'ered 
to go forty miles on snow-shoes after sleds for 
the wounded. He accomplished this distance 
by evening, and without waiting to rest, he 
started back, travelling all night and reaching 
his companions the next morning. The wounded 
were placed on sleds, and Stark returned with 
them to the fort, which he reached that evening, 
thus having- been two nio;hts without rest and 



WIL LET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 17 

having travelled on foot a hundred and twenty he said. "' and he shall now make them one in 
miles in less than forty hours. return." A guard was immediately sent to bring 
In the attack upon Ticonderoga, in June, the paymaster to camp, and he was brought in 
17158, Rogers and Stark led a company of rang- to the tune of the " Rogue's March," the whole 
ers in advance of Howe's force, and at the close regiment receiving him with derisive shouts, 
of the war he returned home and again engaged A court of inquiry investigated Stark's conduct, 
in the pursuits of domestic life. In 1757 he but the paymaster having proved untrustworthy, 
had been married to Elizabeth Page, daughter the whole matter was dropped, 
of Captain Page of Dunbarton, and eleven After the evacuation of Boston b}' the Brit- 
children were born to them. When the news ish. Colonel Stark joined the Northern army, 
of the battle of Lexington was received, he was and the following year his regiment constituted 
at work in his sawmill, and within ten minutes a part ot the troops sent to reinforce Washing- 
he was in the saddle and galloping awa}' toward ton on the Delaware. In the assault on Trenton, 
Boston. The volunteers he had ordered to Stark commanded the advance guard ot the right 
assemble at Medford hastened on, and he was wing, and contributed much toward securing 
elected colonel of one of the regiments. March- the brilliant victory. He was at Washington's 
ing his men through the British fire that swept side in the short but terrible conflict at Prince- 
Charlestown Neck, he led them up to the Amer- ton and remained with him until the arm}' retired 
ican lines. His station was behind a rail fence to winter quarters, when he returned to New 
filled with hay, between the M3-stic River and Hampshire on a recruiting expedition. While 
the road. Some one had asked General Gage in here he learned that several junior officers had 
the morning if he thought the Americans would been promoted and himself left out of the list, 
stand fire. *' Yes,'' he replied, " if John Stark He threw up his commission and retired from 
is there, for he is a brave fellow." John Stark the army, declaring that an oflicer who would 
was there, and his command to his men to submit to such an indignity was not fit to be 
reserve their fire till they could see the enemy's trusted. He was, however, too much of a pat- 
gaiters was repeated along the lines. Whole riot to remain indiflerent to his country's welfare, 
companies of the British fell at every discharge, and so when the General Assembly of New 
and Stark's regiment was one of the last to Hampshire called upon him to take command of 
leave the field of battle. In the midst of the the troops which were being raised to defend 
fight Stark was told that his son had been killed, the State against an invasion from Canada, he 
" It is no time for private griefs when the consented to assume the duty, on condition that 
enemy is in front," was his stern reph'. The he should not be obliged to join the main army, 
report proved untrue, and this son served as should exercise his own discretion as to his 
start' ofiicer throughout the war. After the movements and be responsible to none but the 
battle Stark's command was stationed on Winter authorities of New Hampshire. His conditions 
Hill, and here an incident occurred which were complied with. Hence, when General 
showed the manly independence of his charac- Schuyler ordered him to lead his troops to the 
ter. The paymaster at Medford did not like Hudson, to be placed under general orders, he 
Stark, and so refused to pay his men, on the flatly refused to do so. His reply was sent to 
ground of alleged informality in making out the Congress, and that body emphatically con- 
payrolls. On the following day the soldiers, demned his course, declaring it destructive of 
supplied as they supposed with correct papers. '' militarv subordination and prejudicial to the 
went again for their money, but with no better common cause." All this condemnation Stark 
success. The same was done on the third day, had foreseen and despised. He would not yield 
and the men demanded redress of Stark. " The trom his purpose, and though in a military 
regiment has made the paymaster three visits," point of view he was right in the course he 



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IVJL LET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



took, as the result showed, yet it is very doubt- 
ful whether he would have acted differently had 
it been otherwise. 

The famous Battle of Bennington, stubbornly 
fought and brillianth' won, the tide of victory 
turning now to one and now to the other side, 
marked the zenith of General Stark's military 
career. That victorv infused new life and hope 
into the American Army. Congress, seeking to 
atone for its former injustice, made Stark a 
brigadier general. In 1778 he was appointed 
over the Northern army and stationed at 
Alban}'. Though engaged in no battle, his 
duties for the next four 3'ears were complicated 
and onerous, vet he acquitted himself with 
credit and honor. Washim^ton called him to 
headquarters in 171S3. and here he threw the 
whole weight of his character against the divi- 
sions and incipient conspiracies among the officers 
which threatened to undo the whole work of 
the Revolution. After the disbanding of the 
arm}-. General Stark returned to his home, and 



at the age of tiftv-hve became, like Cincinnatus, 
a quiet farmer, living in retirement until his 
death, which occurred May 8, 1S22, in his 
ninety-fourth year. 

Through all his adventurous and tempestu- 
ous life, as hunter and frontiersman, as soldier 
and as commander, though exposed to innumer- 
able perils, he was never wounded or seriously- 
injured. He loved action, and the roar of 
musketry was music to his ears. His favorite 
hero was Charles XII., whose life he alwaj's 
carried with him in his campaigns. That stern 
and resolute king had not a stronger oi" a nobler 
character than Stark, and the American general 
possessed many fine traits that were lacking in 
the monarch. He had wonderful power over his 
soldiers, who delighted in his eccentricities and 
his bluntness, and who would follow him into an}' 
danger. The highest tribute that can be paid him 
is to say that he was a patriot of unflinching- 
integrity, and that nothing ever swer^■ed him from 
the path of duty as he conceived it. 




l-RANK A. IIARDV S RESIDENCE, LONDONDERRY, 



THE GREAT WAR MEETING IN LONDONDERRY. 



ONE of 
e\'ents i 
was the gre 
Londonderry 



the most stirring and momentous Pleasant View cemetery is now located, the 
n the history of Rockingham County procession, headed by the Auburn band of 
at war meeting which was held in twenty pieces, having formed near what is now 
Aug. 28, 1 86 1. The fires of called CrowelTs Corner. The officers of the 

day, all of whom are now dead, were Jonathan 
Savory, chief mai'shal; John Dickey, president; 
Horace P. Watts, vice-president, and James M. 
Platts, toastmaster. On an evergreen arch which 
liad been erected in front of the speakers' stand 
were the words: "Stand by Your Flag," and 
on the music stand was the motto, "God Save 
the Union." The Union Guards and the Lon- 
donderry Guards escorted the citizens from 
Colby's store (which was situated near where 
Washington Colb}' now lives) to the grove. 
One ot the most conspicuous personages of the 
day was Mrs. Henry Crowell, who made the 




lIhNK\ LlIOWLLL 



patriotism have nowhere burned brighter than 

in that old town, and on that memorable da}' 

the flood of enthusiasm reached its height. More 

than forty soldiers had already enlisted from the 

town, and the meeting was held in order to give 

the ladies of Londonderr}- an opportunity- to 

present to the Union Guards a beautiful banner 

which they had purchased, and in order to 

awaken still more the patriotic spirit of the 

people. Such a crowd was ne\er before seen 

in the town. It seemed as if every man, woman 

and child had turned out, and the numbers 

were augmented bv throngs of visitors from 

Deir}', Auburn, Windham and Mnnchester. It presentation speech. .She spoke without notes, 

was a grand open-air demonstration, and the' and the eftect of her eloquent words upon the 

weather being delightful, the success of the aflair vast audience will never be forgotten b}- those 

was pronounced. The meeting was held in who heard her. She spoke substantially as 

William Plummer's beautiful grove, near where follows: 




MRS. IIENliV CltOWELL. 



WILLETS BOOK OF NUT FIELD. 



" Gentlemen Members of the Union Guards — Scarce a 
century has rolled away since the shouts of victory rang 
through our mountains and our vales. Our fathers fought 
not for fame, but for freedom, not for ambition, but for love 
of country. The battles fought and conquest gained, the 
sages and patriots of the Revolution met and framed a system 
of government almost perfect in its design, and which has 
stood a beacon light to all the nations of tiie earth. And 
now, in iS6i, after years of unparalled prosperity, traitors 
in our midst, forgetting the teachings of their ancestors, 
losing sight of their principles, and at last despising their 
inheritance, viper-like, stinging the bosom from which they 
have so long gained their nourishment, have done that 
which no foreign foe would have dared to do. But the 
effect of their unnatural course will l)e thrown back upon 
them with a terrible vengeance. Iii tiie words of an 
ancient philosopher, we may well say, ' Whom the gods 
would destroy they first make mad.' 

"Shall monuments which have been reared to perpet- 
uate our liberties laugh in mocker)' at our lost patriotism.'' 
Have we degenerated from what our fathers were.' While 
Italy has heard the bugle note of freedom, and Russia is 
throwing off the tyranny of serfdom, shall America, the 
boasted land of liberty, take a retrograde step.? No! She 
shall be, as she ever has been, the standard bearer in this 
grand march for freedom. Love of country' with us should 
not be a mere impulse, but a firm, luidying principle 
which no political aspirations can shake. The man who 
in this day of his country's peril does not speak and act 
for his country may rest assured that every drop of ances- 
tral blood has long since died out of his veins. 

"This gathering here to-day tells us that old honored 
Londonderrv is still awake. That she ever has as now- 
been first and foremost to heed her country's calls, we all 
know. Ours is no war of aggression or subjugation ; we 
claim no conquest of territory, only that the Constitution, 
that priceless trust bequeathed to us by our fathers, be 
defended. Surely if ever war was waged or battles fought 
in a righteous cause, it is in ours. From the North, the 
East, the West, we hear the clarion soimd of war, and 
the tread of brave men who bear on their banners the 
image of the glorious eagle emblem of American union 
who will yet bear the rattlesnake of secession in his talons, 
and rend him with his beak. From our midst have gone 
forth fathers, brothers, husbands, sons and friends, some to 
meet a soldier's death, others to lead on to \ictory. Many 
more will follow, for the contest, though sharp, must be 
decided now and forever. 

"Our hills are steep, rugged and unpolished, yet we 
love them too well to see them pass from ours to traitor 
hands. Our homes and firesides are dear to us, and shall 
we yield them to those who make human beings chattels, 
and forget that ' all men are born free and equal, endowed 
with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, lib- 
erty and the pursuit of happiness ! ' And though many of 
our loved ones will sleep in lonely graves, far away from 



home and kindred, shall we withhold the offering, the 
sacrifice which shall bless all future generations.? 

"Now, in behalf of the ladies of Londonderrv, I 
present to you this banner, to express to you our entire 
willingness to do what we can to aid you in a struggle 
which is so wholl}' glorious. We to-day honor you and 
this banner. We consider by placing it in such worthy 
hands that we testifv to the world how highly we prize it. 
\\'e honor you with our confidence bv entrusting to vou 
for protection this our highest hope next to oiu' hope in 
heaven. 

" Soldiers of the Union Guards, in presenting to vou 
this banner we have no charge to give. We know that 
sons, reared on New England soil, descendants of ancestors 
whose first act was to consecrate themselves, their poster- 
ity and this land to God, cannot prove recreant to so high 
a trust. In the train of events should you be called to 
defend your countrj^'s liberties far from those you hold 
most dear, look aloft to this banner, and remember that 
aroimd it are clustered the fondest hopes of mothers, sisters, 
wives and friends." 

Captain Sanborn accepted the banner on 

behalf of the Union Guards, and responded as 

follows: 

' ' The ladies of Londonderry, ever ready in loyal and 
humane works, who have presented this beautiful banner, 
deserve a better response than I am prepared to make. I 
thank you, kind friends, in behalf of the officers and soldiers 
of the L'nion Guards, for your gift, and the graceful man- 
ner in which it has been presented to us this da\'. We 
pledge ourselves alwavs to stand by it with true loyalty, 
and may it ever be borne in triumph in the cause of 
republican nationality of the Union, one and inseparable, 
now and forever; in the cause of Christian civilization, of 
truth, of justice and of freedom. Could the ladies be 
engaged in a more laudable and praiseworthy work than 
presenting to the citizen soldiers of Londonderry, those 
noble patriots whose love of country has stimulated them 
to arm themselves in its defence, a flag, the emblem of 
our nationality, that glorious old flag under whose folds 
and around whose standard, upon every battlefield from 
Lexington to Yorktown, our fathers freely poured forth 
their noblest blood to establish our present fonu of govern- 
ment, the best and most liberal by which man was ever 
governed? Ladies, the history of the past, from creation 
down to the present period of time, demonstrates that 
whenever woman unites her efforts in common with man 
in any laudable and lawful undertaking, whether it be civil, 
social or religious, that undertaking is invariably crowned 
with success. Once more we thank you, and pledge our- 
selves to support the Union and those stars and stripes, 
the pride and glory of our country, honored and respected 
bv every civilized nation upon the earth. We will not see 
them dishonored ; their foes shall be our foes, and their 
friends shall be our friends. W^e call upon our allies to 



WIL LET'S BOOK OF NUT FIELD. 



respotul with us in their support, and our motto shall be. 
'unfurl for victory or death,' and in the words of the 
illustrious statesman, ' not one stripe erased or made obsciue, 
or one star blotted out ! ' " 

After the presentation and a repast which 
was prepared by the htdies of the town, came 
the post-prandial exercises, with toasts and 
responses. Among the toasts was one to 
"The Ladies of Londonderiy: They cook pas- 
try or run bullets, manage the dairy or make 
blankets for the soldiers, write poetry, or pre- 
sent a flag most gracefully. May their Consti- 
tutions always be sound, and their Unions 
always strong, sure and perpetual." There were 
responses to the various sentiments by Hon. Fred- 
erick Smyth, Frank W. Parker and D. S. Russell, 
of Manchester, and by Mr. Dodge, Rev. Mr. Whitte- 
more. Captain Gilchrist and Lieutenant A. P.Colby. 



HENRY CROWELL, the son of Samuel 
Crowell, was born in Londonderry in 1828. 
His education was received in the common 
schools of his native town. Mr. Crowell has 
held man}' important offices of trust, having 
represented the town in the New Hampshire 
Legislature in 1S70, '71 and "72. He was tor 
many years an elder in the Londonderry Pres- 
byterian Church. In business life Mr. Crowell 
still holds the position which he has occupied 
tor a third of a century, that of travelling sales- 
man for an edge tool company in ^vlaine. In 
18^0 he married Miss Judith C. Plummer of 
Auburn, daughter of Dr. Nathan Plummer, 
formerly of Londonderry. She was educated in 
the public schools of Auburn and at Atkinson 
Academy, after her graduation from which she 
taught school until her marriage. 




.MRS. LANE S RESIDENCE, EAST DERRV, WHERE LAFAYETTE WAS ENTERTAINED. 



GENERAL LAFAYETTE'S VISIT TO DERRY. 



IN the fall of 1824, General Lafayette visited 
America. Every man, woman and child 
seemed to be interested in the great and good 
man who had been the friend and helper ot 
Washington in the great struggle for the inde- 
pendence of the United States. The following 
letter, written at that time b_y a member of 
Adams Female Academ}-, describes his visit to 
Derry and the school: 

My Dear Friexd : - — I presume you share in the 
intense interest which has been excited by Lafayette's visit. 
Have you had the privilege of seeing liim ? Through the 
kindness of the Trustees of ilie Adams Female Academy, 
we were recently permitted to behold him. He passed 
yesterday in town, the guest of General Derby, and he was 
requested to call at the Academy. We were desired to be 
in readiness to receive him at eleven o'clock, though he 
might not come till two. At nine we all assembled. The 
pupils were all dressed in white with pink sashes and a 
bouquet of natural flowers. Their heads were unornamentcd 
except by their neatly arranged hair and simple combs. 
Many of the young ladies are very interesting in their 
appearance, and the whole school looked very pretty. 

The teachers did not calculate on hearing many reci- 
tations, but as the time never drags so heavily as when 
luiLMiiploycd, Miss Grant read extracts from the jSfemoiis 
of Lafayette, v\hich increased the interest in this noljle 
minded individual. 

Eleven o'clock soon arrivetl, fnit we heard nothing of 
our visitor. The bell told us it was twelve, but still no 
news. Ladies from the village now came in, hoping to 
share our chance of seeing the hero. After remaining an 
hoiu' thev departed, supposing he might have taken some 
other route, and that it was useless to wait an\ longer. 
But we were not so ready to relinquish our hopes, and 
concluded to remain. Hoiu' after hour passed in tedious 
expectation, fn vain we sought to beguile the time by 
exercise. At five each eye became languiil. All hope of 
seeing Lafayette had vanished. As our Academy is retired, 
we went on the green before the door for air and exercise. 
A few drops of rain soon drove us into the house. The 
day had been extremely warm. For some time we had 
seen the dark thunder clouds rising in the north and follow- 
ing each other in quick succession toward the south. 
Now the whole sky became darkened and the yi\id flashes 
of lightning, and loud and frequent claps of thunder, told 
a tale of tenor that lilanched many a cheek and moistened 
many a bright eye. At this moment horsemen coming at 
full speed approached with the welcome intelligence that 
Lafayette would soon be with us. In a few moments he 
came. Miss Grant and the teachers went forward to wel- 
coine him, and were introtluced by one of the gentlemen 



present. As he enterctl the teacher's desk I turned to look 
at the pupils. A magician's hand could not have efl'ected 
a more sudden transformation. Terror was forgotten. The 
tempest raging without was no longer heard. Smiles and 
animation had displaced fatigue and anxiety-. Every eye 
glistened, but it was with enthusiasm ; every heart swelled 
with intense interest as we beheld the friend, the defender, 
the martyr of liberty. Before us stood the man, who fifty 
years ago left his native country, his noble prospects, his 
happy home, to embark in the almost shipwrecked cause 
of American Lulependence. And he, too, it was, who, 
betrayed by his luigrateful countrymen, immersed in the 
dungeons of Almonts, deprived of light and air, almost of 
food and clothing, disdained to sacrifice his honor for his 
liberty. An almost breathless stillness prevailed while one 
of the Trustees told him that this Academy was one of a 
few public institutions in our country designed exclusively 
for the education of women ; that it was taught wholly by 
ladies and was designed to give them a solid education, on 
the same basis as our colleges; and he said, "You will 
not refuse these young ladies, in common with otheis, the 
gratification of welcoming to our country the friend of 
man. and the friend of America." 

The young ladies simultaneously rose. His reply we 
did not distinctly hear. He was asked, -'Will you speak 
to these young ladies.''" He replied, "I should like to," 
and was immediately going to each individual, one lum- 
dred in all, but he was told they would come to him. 
With each lady he shook hands, and to each remarked, " I 
am happy to see you." After staying fifteen minuter, he 
departed, expressing much gratification at his visit. His last 
words, '• Farewell forever," sounded mournfully in our cars. 

As he left the building, the clouds which had obscured 
the heavens suddenly became dissipated in the west, and 
although the rain still fell in torrents, the sun broke forth 
\yith unusual splendor, forming a magnificent rainbow in 
the east. The splendid colors of the rainbow beautifully 
contrasted with the masses of dark clouds that still skirted 
the horizon. At a distance the deep-toned thunder was 
resounding, while nearer, the church bell was sending forth 
its melodious notes. The eH'ect of the scene and its asso- 
ciations was almost oppre.'sive. Had we been alone we 
should have relieved our full hearts by a flood of tears. 
We felt that we that day had seen the most noble of 
modern heroes, a, being wdio united in his o\vn character 
all the best qualities of ancient days, pure, magnanimous, 
disinterested, alike the friend of liberty and the opponent 
of anarchy. Many a silent prayer ascended for his earthly 
happiness and eternal felicity. And we retii'ed to our 
respective abodes with hearts full of gratitude to Him who had 
disposed Lafayette to assist America in her hour of nee<l. 

Lafayette was the honored guest of General 
Elias Ilaskett Derby of Derry, his companion in 
arms in the war of the Revolution. 



HARVEY PERLEY HOOD. 



HARVEY PERLEY HOOD, son of Deacon 
Harvey and Rebecca (Smith) Hood, was 
born at Chelsea, Vt., June 6. 1S23. His early 
education was obtained at the district schools 
of his native town, and at the Randolph Acad- 
emy. After helping carry on his father's farm 
until he was nearly twenty-three, he went to 
Boston in 1845 and 
found employment 
in the bakery busi- 
ness for about two 
years. He then 
started in business, 
buying a small milk 
route. After nine 
years of conscien- 
tious work he built 
up a fine business, 
but was compelled 
on account of his 
health to sell out 
and mo\"e awa}' irom 
the sea coast. He 
then came to Derry, 
N. H., in 1856, and 
started in the milk 
bvisiness as a con- 
tractor, runnino- a 
milk car from Derry 
to Boston. In 1858 
he bought the Red- 
field Farm, later 
known as the Chase 
Farm, where he has 
since resided. With 
his characteristic 
energy he set at work impro\ing the farm and 
remodeling and enlarging the buildings, adding 
new buildings from time to time as need required, 
until he now has one of the largest and best 
equipped dair\- farms in New Hampshire. Mean- 
while, through his attention to business and 
perseverance, his milk business has increased, 
until now the corporation of H. P. Hood & 
Sons is one of the largest handlers of dairy pro- 




HARNEY p. noon 



ducts in New England. Their principal cream- 
ery, grain elevator and mill are at Derry, where 
the home ofiice is located. They also have a 
Boston otfice for the needs of their extensive 
business there. Mr. Hood has been a Director 
in the Dcrrv National Bank for more than 
twenty years, has twice represented his town in 

the State Legisla- 
ture, b u t duri n g 
most of his life, his 
own business has 
occupied his time, 
and few men have 
worked as many 
hours a dav as he 
has for fifty years. 
He has always been 
active and interested 
in everything that 
would contribute to 
the welfare of his 
town. He has borne 
his part in all benev- 
olent enterprises, and 
has always been 
kind and charitable 
to the unfortunate 
and deserving. He 
was married in 1850 
to Caroline Laura 
Corwin, daughter of 
John and Clarissa 
( Thompson ) Cor- 
win, of Tunbridge, 
Vt., and she has been 
his eflicient helper in 
all public and benevolent enterprises. Their 
home life has always been remarkably happy. 
They have six children. Their three sons are 
now interested with their father in his extensive 
business, Charles H. being treasurer, Edward J. 
director, and Gilbert H. secretar}- in the H. P. 
Hood & Sons Corporation. Their three daughters 
are Mrs. J. W. Johnston, Clara R. Hood, and 
Mrs. M. N. Smith. 



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PINKERTON ACADEMY and the educa- 
tional and religious interests of Derry owe 
very much to the labors of Ebenezer Greenleaf 
Parsons. For forty years he has been more or 
less closely identified with the Academy, and 
few men have contributed more to its success 
than he. Mr. Parsons was born in Westport, 
Me., May 15, 1S13. and was graduated at 




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Bowdoin College in 1S33, ^i"*^' '^'^ Bangor Theo- 
logical Seminary four ^ears later. He served 
the Congregational Church in Freeport, Me., 
as pastor for fourteen years and also served 
the Congregational Church in Derr}' eighteen 
years, resigning in October, 1869. During this 
period he rendered valuable assistance to the 
cause of education by his service on the school 
committee or in his capacity as superintendent 
of schools. After the close of his ministry in 



Derr}-, in 1869, he was principal of Pinkerton 
Academy three years and of Dummer Academy, 
Byfield, Mass., ten years. Upon the death of 
John Morrison Pinkerton in 1881, Mr. Parsons 
was elected President of Pinkerton Academy, 
and since then has occupied the office. As 
member of the board of trustees for forty years, 
a large part of the time serving on the execu- 
tive committee as chairman or as member, he 
has been enabled to accomplish much for the 
institution. In addition to his other duties 
Mr. Parsons has been a member of the board 
of overseers of Bowdoin College since 1864, 
and for a number of 3'ears was one of the exam- 
iners of the College. 

In 1840 Mr. Parsons was married to Miss 
Caroline Mellen Nye of Freeport, Me., who 
died in 1862, leaving two children as fruit ol 
their union: Caroline Nye, wife of Frank G. 
How, and Miss Maria Sewall. Mr. Parsons 
married Sarah Dana McMillan, daughter of 
Hon. Andrew McMillan, of Danville, Me., in 
1865. The pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. 
Parsons is in Derry Village. 



A BEL FLETCHER HILDRETH was born 
■'»• in Sterling, Mass., Oct. 24, 1793. He fit- 
ted for college at Exeter, N. H., and entering 
Harvard was graduated in the class of 1818, 
ranking among the first fifteen in a class of 
eighty members. Shortly after graduation he 
took charge of the Academy in Amherst, N. H., 
and at the same time began the stud}' of medi- 
cine in the office of Dr. Spaulding. In 1S19 
he became principal of Pinkerton Academy 
in Derry, continuing for twenty-seven years in 
this position. After leaving the Academy he 
had charge of a family school in Derry and 
subsequently of one in Auburndale, Mass., for 
quite a number of years. In his life work as 
teacher he was eminently successful, and his 
pupils numbered at least twenty-five hundred. 
Among them was one who became President 
of the United States; one was principal of 
Phillips Academy, Andover; another, Hon. Z. 
Chandler, was United States Senator from Michi- 



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gan, and many others became distinguished in 
professional or business life. But it was not 
merely in the number of his pupils, or the 
celebrity of a few of them, that Mr. Hildreth's 



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success as a teacher appeared. His happy meth- 
ods of instruction, his kind, paternal discipline, 
his pleasant conversation, his warm heart, his 
ofenial character, were the moldins; influences 
that shaped many a mind and heart among his 
pupils. He seemed to discover b}- intuition 
what talents or capacity his pupils possessed, 
and he was very successful in drawing out and 
making the most of what was in them. Many 
a timid, shrinking j-outh, by Mr. Hildreth's 
kindness and encouragement, was lifted out of 
obscurit}', educated and fitted tor a station of 
honor and usefulness whicii he afterward adorned 
for jears. Mr. Hildreth was an excellent clas- 
sical instructor, and his pupils were regarded by 
the faculty of Dartmouth College as far better 
prepared for admission than the average candi- 
dates for entrance into that institution. He was 
equally successful as a teacher of mathematics 
and the natural sciences. In the family, in the 
town, in tlie church, as well as in the school- 
room, his influence was a most happy one. Not 



long after coming to Derry he united with the 
Presbyterian Church, then under the pastoral 
care of Rev. E. L. Parker. He was soon chosen 
an elder and continued in this ofiice until the 
formation of the Congregational Church in Derr}' 
Village. In this church he took a deep interest, 
contributing liberall}' for its support as long as 
he remained in town. He was chosen deacon 
of the new church, and in this office he was 
very efficient. Probably no man ever exerted a 
greater and more beneficent influence upon the 
town of Derry than Mr. Hildreth during his 
more than thirty years' residence there. The 
young men especially during all this time felt his 
molding power. Most of them had been his 
pupils, and they always looked up to him as their 
guide, philosopher and friend. After leaving the 
Academy, Mr. Hildreth represented the town in 
the State Legislature for two years, and here, 
true to his ruling passion, he labored diligently 
and successfully in the cause of education. He 
drafted the bill providing for the appointment 
of county commissioners of common schools 
and had the satisfaction of seeing it become 
law. Mr. Hildreth died in vSomerville in 1864 
at the age of seventy-one. 




MCxVLLISTER S COURT, DERKV DEPOT. 



WESLEY B. KNIGHT POST, G. A. R. 



WESLEY B. KNIGHT Post No. 41, De- 
partment of New Hampshire, G. A. R., 
was instituted at Annis Hall, North London- 
derry, ALarch 6, 1S79, by Department Com- 
mander W. H. D. Cochran, assisted by Adjt. 
Gen. A. D. Ayling and other members of Post 
No. 7 of Nashua. There were seventeen char- 
ter members, Orrin B. Stokes, New Hamp- 




WESLEY K. KNIGHT. 



shire's famous drummer, being chosen first 
commander. According to an unwritten law 
Grand Army posts generally take the name of 
some orticer or soldier of the Union Army in 
the War of the Rebellion, not living, preferably 
one from the town in which the post is located. 
Wesley B. Knight was one of the hrst if not 
the first citizen of Londonderry to ofter his ser- 



vices to put down the Rebellion, "to maintain 
our countr}' undivided and our flag unsullied.'" 
in response to the first call for volunteers in 
April, 1 86 1, and his name is on the list of those 
who sacrificed their li\es in their countrN-'s 
defence. He died while a prisoner in South 
Carolina. His name was therefore pre-eminently 
a fitting one for this post, and was adopted by 
unanimous consent. The members of the post 
at the time of its organization resided about 
equall}- in Londonderry and Derry, some three 
or four living in Auburn and Windham. The 
post held its meetings at North Londonderry, 
Derry Depot and at the Town Hall in London- 
derry, for the convenience ol its members, who 
soon numbered sixt}-, and prospered for about 
eight years, holding man}- campfires and other 
entertainments to raise funds for relief, which 
were alwa3^s liberally patronized. During the 
first years of its existence it decorated the graves 
of our fallen heroes in the several cemeteries of 
Londonderry and Derr}', and one cemetery in 
Auburn, on each Memorial Day, but owing to 
the institution of other posts, now confines itself 
to Londonderr}-. It secured from the ITnited 
States government quite a number of marble 
headstones, properly inscribed, which it has 
placed at the previously unmarked graves of 
soldiers from Londonderry in cemeteries in Lon- 
donderry and Auburn, and has had an accurate 
survey and plans made of the several cemeteries 
in Londonderr}-, upon which is marked the 
exact spot where each soldier lies buried. These 
surveys and plans were made by Joseph R. 
Clark, a civil engineer of Derry, who gener- 
ously donated his services. In order that the 
soldiers' graves might be readily distinguished 
from others, the post has placed suitable mark- 
ers, and on each Memorial Day puts on every 
o-rave a flag, that emblem of union and liberty 
which every true soldier adores, and scatters 
flowers in testimony of the affection and esteem 
in which the memory of the fallen comrades is 

held. 

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events had been instituted at Derry, endeavored the first organization. The post's charter entitles 

in 1886 to prescribe territorial limits for the it to hold meetings at Londonderry or Derry 

older organization, which was at that time hold- Depot, and the post is believed to be the onh' 

ing its meetings at Derry Depot. The result one in the department with a roving charter, 

was that this post surrendered its charter April 9, The first charter was returned, and the two in 




WESI.EY B. KNIGHT POST, G. A. R., AND SOLDIERS .MONir.MEN'T, LONDONDERR V. 



j8"85. But it was not long relegated to oblivion, a double frame ornament the wall of the post 

for on June 17 of the same year it was re-insti- room. The post was soon actively at work and 

tuted and re-organized by Department Com- rapidly increased in membership, meetings being 

mander Otis C. Wyatt, assisted by Comrade held for some time in Odd Fellows' Hall. Since 

Cyrus C. Marston of Chester, N. H., with eigh- the re-organization of the post, a Woman's Relief 

teen charter members, all of whom belonged to Corps auxiliary to it has been instituted, which 



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is one of the largest and most energetic in the 
department. With tlie assistance of the ladies 
of this Relief Corps the post held a successful 
fair in November, 1889, netting about eight 
hundred and fift\- dollars. It gave about six 
hundred dollars in prizes and premiums to ticket 
holders, which sum was contributed almost 
whollv by friends of the post in Londondeny 
and surrounding towns. A part of the proceeds 
was used to fit up and furnish the apartments 
which the post now occupies at Derry Depot 
and which are said to be the handsomest and 
best equipped in the department. The room is 
complete in all its appointments, and is lighted 
bv electricit}'. Upon its walls hang the elegant 
silk banner of the post and many pictures, 
among them a life-like portrait of Wesley B. 
Knight, presented bv his brother, Asa P. Knight 
of Washington, D. C. Upon the altar lies a 
handsome illustrated Bible, presented b}' the wife 
and daughter of Wesley B. Knight. The post 
has also a beautiful memorial volume in which 
to record the history of each comrade, the gift 
of Rosecrans W. Pillsbury of Londonderry and 
Frederick J. Shepard of Derry. Frequently has 
the post been honored by the appointment of its 
members on the staff' of the Department Com- 
mander and Commander-in-Chief, and in secur- 
ing for its Memorial Day orators sons of Lon- 
donderrv who have won esteem abroad. It 
participated in the dedication of the soldiers' 
monuments at Manchester, Londonderry, Nashua 
and Derry, and in August, 1S89, it attended the 
National Encampment at Boston, Mass., with 
full numbers, and was royal!}' entertained b\' the 
Morrison family of Londonderry, at their home 
in Cambridge. It is a remarkable fact that for 
twelve years prior to 1894 there was not a death 
among the members of the post, thougli four have 
occurred since and seven in all. The member- 
ship in November, 1894, was fitty-five. The 
youngest member is fort3'-six and several are over 
seventy years of age. As the years roll on and 
the infirmities of its members and other wards 
increase, the post keeps ever ali\e to its duties 
and carries joy and comfort to manv homes. 
Harmony prevails in its councils, and prosperity 



attends it. The present commander is John E. 
Webster of Derr}-. 



\\1 ESLEY B. KNIGHT Woman's Relief 

' ' Corps, ot Londonderry and Derry Depot, 

auxiliary to Wesley B. Knight Post 41, was 




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instituted Feb. 7, 1S89, by Miss Kate M. Thayer, 
department secretary, assisted bv ]Mrs. Kate G. 
Libby of Nashua, the Post having been activelv 
interested in aiding the formation in every way 
and finally presenting the Corps with its char- 
ter. The first ofiicers were: Mrs. Alice W. 
Clark, president; Mrs. Kate E. H. Plummer, 
secretary', and Mrs. Mary A. Whitne}', treasurer. 
The}' held their positions for two 3'ears. Start- 
ing with seventeen charter members, the Corps 
rapidly grew in strength, and at the end of two 
years it had sixt3'-five names on its roll. Head- 
quarters were first established in Odd Fellows' 
Hall, but the Corps soon removed to the apart- 



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ments which it now occupies in G. A. R. Hull. 
It entered at once vigorously upon its duties in 
raising and disbursing money lor the reliet ot 
needy and destressed soldiers and their families. 
It furnished and fitted up its apartments and 
furnished a room in the Soldiers' Home at Tilton. 
It also assisted the Post to which it is auxiliary 
in holding a fair in the fall of 1889 and was 
substantially remembered for its services. The 
Corps occupies a suite of rooms, handsomely 
furnished and carpeted, adjoining the Post rooms. 
In the audience room is a fine piano, the prop- 
erty of the Corps, and its kitchen is complete 
in all its appointments. Frequent entertainments, 
which are always well patronized, are given to 
raise money for relief Mrs. Mary A. Whitney 
was the second president, with Mrs. Kate E. H. 
Plummer, secretary, and Mrs. Helen F. Knight, 
treasurer. Thev served for three years, and 
ably carried on the work of the Corps, com- 
pleting all that was in progress and always on 
the alert for an opportunity to do good. The 
organization prospered, and thirty names were 
added to the roll during their administration. 
Mrs. Ellen M. Stearns is the third and present 
president, with Mrs. Annie C. Martin, secretary, 
and Mrs. Emma j. Perkins, treasurer. 



IT is often difiicult to realize how intimate were 
the relations sustained in the olden time 
between pastor and flock, and how in hours of 
distress or peril they turned to him for succor 
and advice. The severest earthquake ever known 
in New England happened at ten o'clock in the 
evening on Oct. 29, 1729, the shock in Nutfield 
being- violent enough to awaken and alarm all 
the inhabitants. Rev. Mr. McGregor at once 
arose and started to go among his people. His 
frightened wife and children pleaded with him 
to remain at home, but the stern old minister 
replied, "■ I have a greater family which must 
be cared for." And with that he hastened 
awav. On the road he met a large number of 
his parishioners hurrying in terror to his house. 
He quieted their fears and took occasion to 
draw a moral lesson from the earthquake. The 
history naively adds: "A general seriousness 
followed. Numbers were awakened and hope- 
fully converted, a reformation of morals was 
visible, family prayer was more generally at- 
tended, and great additions were made to the 
churches!" Periods of religious awakening fre- 
quently follow great disasters, and the experience 
of the Nutfield settlers shows how little human 
nature chanoes with time. 




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REV. H. M. PENNIMAN was born June 23, 
1S51, in New Braintree, Mass. After 
attending the public schools of that town he 
studied in Williston Seminar}-, East Hampton, 
Mass., in Worcester Academy, Worcester, Mass., 
in Brown University, Providence, R. I., and in 
Andover Theological Seminar}'. Feb. 24, 1873, 
he married Miss Caroline Fobes of Boston. 
Mr. Pennimah was ordained and installed as a 




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Cone;reo-ational minister in the First Church, 
East Deny, April 8, 1S84. After a successful 
pastorate there of more than five years, he went, 
July I, 1889, to Chicago, to become pastor ot 
the Tabernacle Church, at the corner of West 
Indiana and Morgan Streets. The following 
^ear he accepted a call to the Orthodox Con- 
p-resrational Chinxh of Keokuk, la., where he 
has remained since Jan. i, i8yi. 



Haverhill, headed bj- a man named Herriman, 
appeared one day on the scene, looking- 
for trouble. They were all Avell armed, and 
threatened to drive the Scotchmen away from 
the region. It was not because they desired to 
settle in Nuttield themselves, but only because 
they objected on principle to Dissenters. Evi- 
dently, however, they did not realize with whom 
the}' were dealing. Some of the Scotchmen, 
including their minister, had fought in defence 
of Londonderr^'. in Ireland, during the siege of 
that city by the forces of King James II., 
and they were not easily frightened. A public 
religious service happened to be held on the 
day on which the Haverhill invaders arrived, 
and the Scotchmen, after listening calmly to their 
insolent command, and quietly taking the meas- 
ure of their strength, informed them that it was 
their tirst duty to attend to the appointed relig- 
ious service; when that was over, they would 
give them all the fighting they desired, and to 
this arrangement the Haverhill men assented. 
What followed is thus narrated in on old record: 
'• The little company of settlers gathered around 
the trunk of a -large tree which was used by 
Mr. MacGregor as his pulpit. The assailants 
retired at a short distance, observed the religious 
exercises, and, struck with the firm, resolute and 
undaunted appearance of the people, with their 
solemnity and devotion, and particularly with 
the eloquent and impressing discourse delivered 
on the occasion, thev relinquished their hostile 
design, Herriman remarking, 'It is in vain to 
attempt to disturb these people; we shall not 
succeed, for God is evidently among them.'" 



THE first settlers of Nutfield had many diffi- 
culties and dangers to contend with that 
would have daunted less braver hearts than 
theirs. Soon after the little colony had estab- 
lished itselt", a party of about a dozen from 




,\ REI-IC OF THE EARLY DAYS. 



THE HILL GRAVEYARD. 

FOR many years this old burial ground in whole generations bushes and trees grew over 

Londonderry was almost unknown. The the graves, and grasses and briars covered the 

lot, long ago set apart for the final resting place prone and reclining stones, until it became 

of the dead, is quite small and is situated upon extremely ditficult to walk among the monu- 

a lonely road little frequented. After the re- ments of the departed. 








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moval of the meeting house and congregation The graveyard was given to the parish, or 
that once worshipped near by, the circumstances to the constituency the meeting house was sup- 
that made the old hill graveyard a fitting burial posed to represent, by Matthew Clark, who held 
place were altered, and few found occasion to the property as a part of his second division of 
use these grounds or even visit them. During land, his homestead being situated in the Eng- 



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lish Range. Many of the English Range people the Bells and the Pinkertons. After locating 
elected to take their second divisions along this these old worthies the barren features of the 



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hill, which became another range the next in landscape are forgotten in the fraternal bonds 

order west of the Eayers Range. A highway of good fellowship that is known to have pre- 

was laid out through this range, and on the vailed among kindred families in early days, 

highest point of land a site was selected for the There were some distinguished men in those 

meeting house of the west parish, supposed to times, and their titles of office generall}' signi- 

include those people living on the west side of tied a real and appreciated work among men. 

Beaver Brook. The meeting house stood on the The McCoUoms came from their farm near the 

east side of the highway, and the graveyard was old Wallace Pond, afterwards called Scobie's 

just opposite upon the west side. It was a Pond. The Wallaces lived by that pond and 

grand and sightly place in fact, overlooking the attended the west parish meetings, and some 

site of the first meeting house and parish on the noted names are found among the stones of the 

east side of Beaver Brook, for the eye could graveyard. The Scobies that lived b}- the pond 

see far beyond and around. left manj- traditions long after the name disap- 

After long jears of desertion the chance peared from the list oi the living. The Scobies 

visitors to this hallowed ground began to com- too are represented among the tenants of the 

plain of the neglect and want of proper respect hill graveyard. There are mormments of small 

for the memory of so many noble and worthy and ancient designs erected to the memory of 

pioneers there laid awa)' to mingle their dust the Craigs, the Alexanders, and the Oughtter- 

with the stubborn chi}- of a region that proved sons. There were buried the Thompsons, Camp- 

itself too hard for reclamation, and ask that bells, Taggarts, Dickeys, Clarks, Aikens, Macks 

something be done to keep the cattle from pas- and McAllisters. Doubtless hundreds of persons 

turing and treading over the peaceful and de- were interred there without any marking stones, 

fenceless tenants of these early graves. The John Barnard gave up his homestead on 

walls had fallen down, the gravestones were the south side of Westrunning Brook for lands 

broken and jumbled together promiscuousl3', and in the region known as the Canada Ranges, and 

the original location of man}' of them was doubt- became a resident of the west parish instead of 

ful. Something has been done to restore the the east. The Aikens and McKeens took up 

walls and clear the grounds and straighten a tracts of land there, and the records upon the 

few of the reclining slabs. grave stones indicate a strong original organiza- 

Just inside the entrance a row of dark mon- tion of this parish, 

uments tells a story of nearly a whole genera- There are distinguished names that will never 

tion of the McColloms, the aged and the j-ounger, be forgotten, for they are bound up in the his- 

the father and the famil}-. And yet they are torj- of religious societies and the foundations of 

not dead, but living in the aflections and lives permanent literar}- and social institutions. The 

of thousands whom they touched in some way, founder and benefactor of Pinkerton Academy 

or in the other annals and experiences of other lies buried there and the increasing usefulness 

towns and cities where numerous members of of that school of learning will cause this old 

the McCoUom family have tried again the exper- graveyard to be cared for and visited more and 

iment of settlement. more with the lapse of time and the decadence 

A little farther on one reads of the decease of the Puritan stock that once covered these 

of generations of Duncans and immediately hills and valle3S and turned the wilderness into 

recalls the familiar faces of the latest types of fruitful fields and industrious!}' fenced the waste 

a departed name and the numberless legends of places. 

the fireside connected with tJie intercourse and It is well to consider the vigor and man- 
daily conversations bo'tween these families and hood of the pioneers who coined money out of 



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stonv rock in the wilderness. A spirit of intense ter when the snow was too deep to tind the 
rivalr\- was displayed at intervals and it led to stone, and thus with the enjoyment of a few 
divisions and strife, but seldom does it happen winter terms in the honored old Pinkerton 
that any great achievement is recorded which Academy he succeeded in obtaining a fair edu- 
does not have its origin in some form of part}- cation. Like the average New England boy of 
spirit. Without the strife and rivalry which forty-five years ago he started out at eighteen 
differences of opinion and strength of conviction years of age as a Yankee schoolmaster. Upon 
produce, there are invariably indolence, lack of 
ambition and frequent occasions for intemper- 
ance and licentiousness. The vigorous fighting 
for principle and the strife of emulation to excel 
in good works mark the healthy and prosperous 
people. That people will undergo so many 
privations for the sake of defending the relig- 
ious principles they advocate is a pretty certain 
evidence of a favoring Providence, and under 
such circumstances the body ot the faithful in- 
creases b}' accessions from within and without, 
whereas in the tranquil and non-militant con- 
dition faith grows cold and its roots and branches 
decay and perish for want of vital action. 

The sun that is setting over the hills and 
casting long shadows upon the graves of buried 
ancestors and pleasing memories of busy indus- 
tries is discovered to be rising upon still vaster 
industries and grander achievements in more 
favorable lands conducted and advanced by the 
settlers and irresistible energies of this same 
persistent Gaelic or Celtic race that has become 
dominant as a power wherever the progress of 
events has opened a pathway. 




GEORGE WILLARD PERKINS was born 
in Derry, Oct. 23, 1832, on the old Bell 
Farm, about one mile north of the West Vil- 
lage. Flis parents were Deacon John and Mary 
Searle Perkins. When about ten years of age 
his father sold the Bell Farm and after livino- in 
the village a ^-ear or more, bought the Nesmith 
Farm, two miles south of the West Village. It 
was on this last farm that Georsre grew to man- 
hood, wrestled with the fates of hard-working, 
poor, economical. New England boyhood, wore 
homespun clothing, picked stone and hauled 
them out on the highway (where they yet re- 
main), attended school a few months each win- 



GEORGE WlLI.AHn PERKIXS. 

arriving at his majorit}- he made teaching a per- 
manent business for two years and filled with a 
reasonable degree of satisfaction the position of 
grammar school teacher in South Danvers, (now 
Peabod}') Mass., until the autumn of 1S55. 

New England society of forty-five years ago 
being a societ}' of caste almost as much as the 
Oriental nations are to-da\', the degrees of 
respectability being conferred according to the 
kind of house a boy was born in and the 
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subject of this sketch, at the age of twenty- 
three years, decided to leave man}' things dear 
in his native town and seek a home in the then 
new West. He secured a position as clerk in 
a general merchandise store in Wethersheld, 111., 
at a salary of twenty dollars a month, and 
began work in September, 1855. In this posi- 
tion he made a passable tape measurer and 
molasses drawer, and in consideration of the 
niggardly sum received as compensation for his 
work, together with other good and sufficient 
reasons, he cheated his employer out of his old- 
est daughter. Miss Ellen E. Little, to whom he 
was married July 13, 1857, and thus secured 
with Yankee thrift and ingenuity, not only his 
first great bargain in the west, but his honored 
and worth}' companion for these thirty-seven 
intervening years. The goddess of fortune smiled 
and frowned alternately on the eastern arrival 
until at the end of about fifteen years he 
with his wife and four children " moved west," 
to Fremont County, Iowa, his present home. 

Here he engaged in farming, which in that 
country means grain and stock raising, fattenino- 
for the market in the past twenty years se\eral 
thousand head of cattle and hogs. He had been 
a member of the old First Congregational Church 
in Derry, and a charter member of the first 
Sunday school organized there. In his Iowa 
home he was superintendent of the Congrega- 
tional Sunday school twentv-one years. 

Not unlike many other Yankee boys who 
have become westernized, he mixed a little in 
politics of the stalwart Republican sort, and 
after holding some County offices was, in Novem- 
ber, 1889, elected for four years to the State 
Senate of Iowa. In November, 1892, he was 
elected a member of the State Board of Rail- 
road Commissioners, which office he yet holds, 
and to fill which he has temporarily removed 
to Des Moines, the capital of the State. 

He remembers very kindly the dear old 
hills of his Derry home and the kind friends 
who spoke with a smile to cheer his boyish 
steps and help them up the hill so hard to 
climb for the boy of fifty years ago who was 
born poor. 



TOSIAH GOODWIN, the son of Deacon 
^ Joshua and Elizabeth Goodwin, was born, 
Nov. 28, 1807, in Londonderry, N. H. Nov. 
24, 183 1, he was married at Milford, N. H., 
by Rev. Humphrey Moore, D. D., to Esther, 
daughter of Abram and Hepzibah Jones, who 
was born Dec. 5, 1810, in Hillsboro, N. H. 



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JOSIAH GOOUWIX. 

This union remained unbroken until March 9, 
188S, when the wife was called away by death, 
after fifty-seven peaceful years of continuous 
life on the old homestead farm, where their 
journey in wedlock began. Five children were 
born to them : Daniel. Henry, John, Esther 
Miranda, and Joseph Stone. The happy golden 
wedding of the aged couple was celebrated 
Nov. 24, 1 88 1, and a host of relatives and 
friends, with greeting, gift and song, came to 
pay their timely tribute of love and respect and 
enjoy the hospitality of the old homestead. Per- 
haps no resident of the town was better known 
and for so many years more highly esteemed 
than Mr. Goodwin. He was a man of great 
physical strength and possessed of exceptional 
powers of endurance. Applying himself to hard 
labor as if it were a pastime, he found no need 



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or time or place for labor-saving devices to saw something of the horrors of war. He was 
lighten or supplement his oft-tested powers. A strongly opposed to slavery, and supported the 
kind neighbor and generous to the extent of his war as necessary to save the Union. His plain 
means, many a wayfaring traveller went forth statement of his views in his sermons produced 
from his home strengthened and refreshed. Mr. considerable excitement at a time when some 
Goodwin was thoroughly conversant with the believed that the pulpit should be silent on 
Bible, which he statedly read and literally inter- 
preted. With a faith which nothing could shake 
he put all his trust in Him who became "the end 
of the law for righteousness." For more than 
sixt}' years he was a member of the Presbyterian 
Church and active as superintendent or teacher 
in the Sabbath school. After a long and painful 
illness death came to his release Jul}' 29, 1893. 



REV. JOSHUA W. WELLMAN, D. D.. 
son of Deacon James Ripley and Phebe 
(Wyman) Wellman, was born in Cornish, Sulli- 
van County, N. H., Nov. 2S, 1821. He was 
fitted for college at Kimball Union Academ}', 
Meriden N. H., and was graduated from Dart- 
mouth College in 1846. During his college 
course he taught one winter in Upton, Mass., 
a part of one autumn in an academy in Bradford. 
N. H., and two winters in East Randolph (now 
Holbrook), Mass. After graduating at Dart- 
mouth he taught during two terms in Kimball 
Union Academy, and then was principal for two 
terms of the academy in Rochester, Mass. In 
the autumn of 1847 he taught again in the acad- 
emy at Meriden, N. H., and at the close of the 
term entered Andover Theological Seminary. 
He taught again in Kimball Union Academj' in 
the autumn of 1848, and was graduated from 
Andover Seminar}' in 1850. After spending one 
year at Andover as resident licentiate, he was 
ordained to the Christian ministry and installed 
as pastor of the historic First Church in Derr}-, 
N. H., June 18, 185 1, where he labored five 
3'ears. He was installed pastor of the Eliot 
Church. Newton, Mass., June 11, 1856, and was 
dismissed Oct. 23, 1873. His pastorate here in- 
cluded the exciting period of the Ci\il War. 
In the second year of the conflict he visited the 
army in Virginia, and was at Yorktown during 
the battle at Williamsburg, and after the battle 




REV. JOSHITA WYMAN WELLMAN, D. D. 

such subjects. He continued, however, in ever}' 
way which seemed to him to be proper, to 
help forward the cause of justice, liberty and 
union. The church became eminently patriotic, 
and twenty-seven men from the congregation 
enlisted for the war. During this pastorate the 
small church of hardly a hundred members grew 
to be one of the largest and most prominent 
churches in the Commonwealth. March 25, 
1874, Dr. Wellman was installed pastor of the 
ancient First Church in Maiden, Mass., the his- 
tory of which, written by him, is found in the 
" History of Middlesex County, Mass." Under 



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his care this church also sfrew into a larsje and 
influential bod}'. He remained in this pastorate 
until May 6, 1883, since which time he has not 
been settled, but has continued to preach, sup- 
plying pulpits in various places, while devoting 
much of his leisure to literary work. Oct. 24, 
1854, he married Miss Ellen M. Holbrook, 
daughter ot' Caleb Strong and Prudence (Durfee) 
Holbrook of East Randolph (now Holbrook), 
Mass. Their children are: Arthur Holbrook, 



tee of Phillips Academy and Andover Theo- 
logical Seminar)-; and for about twenty-five years 
has been a member of the executive committee 
of the Congregational Board of Ministerial Aid 
in Massachusetts, of which board he was one of 
the founders. He has been for many years a 
director in the American College and Education 
Society (now the Congregational Education 
Society), and for several 3'ears has been, and is 
now, chairman of its Board of Directors. He 




IIRST CHl'RCH, 

born Oct. 30, 1855; Edward Wyman, born 
March 15, 1857; died April 17, 1891; Ellen 
Holbrook, born Nov. 8, 1858, married Robert 
Cushman King; and Annie Durfee, born July 
5, 1862. Dr. Wellman was elected a corporate 
member of the American Board of Commission- 
ers for Foreign Missions in 1867, and he has 
been one of the managers of the Congregational 
Sunday School and Publishing Societ}' since 
1870. Since the same year he has been a trus- 



EAST DERRV. 

is a member of the New England Historic, 
Genealogical Society, and a corporate member 
of the General Theological Librar}- of Boston. 
He was the first to advocate the formation of 
the Congregational Club of Boston and vicinity. 
Olivet College in 1868, and Dartmouth College 
in 1870, honored him with the degree of Doctor 
of Divinity. H^e has published numerous ser- 
mons, addresses and articles on educational and 
religious subjects. 



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RAYMOND CHANDLER DRISKO, the eld- boyhood he had felt himself called to the ministry, 
est son of E. H. and Elizabeth R. Drisko, Before the completion of his seminary work he 
was born in Columbia Falls, Me., Aug. 22, was invited to become pastor of the First Con- 













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1852. lie was educated in the schools of his 
native town, at the high school in Harrington 
and at the seminary in Bucksport, Me. Mr. 
Drisko taught school for 
several vears in his own and 
adjoining towns, and suc- 
ceeded, while supervisor of 
schools of fonesboro, in se- 
curing the adoption of the 
town system of schools ten 
years prior to the com- 
pulsory sj'stem of the State, 
marking a new era in the 
educational interests of that 
town. In September, 1882, 
he entered the Bangor The- 
ological Seminar}' and took 
the complete course of stud)' 
of that institution, grad- 
uating June 3, 1885. From 



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MRS. R. C. DRISKO. 



MARGARET XEWCOMR DRISKO. 



gregational Church of Derbv, Vt., and to this 
office he was ordained and installed June 25, 
1885. During his pastorate of more than five 

years in Derby he served 
two years on the School 
Board of Orleans County. 
He was called from Derby 
to become acting pastor of 
the First Church in Derry, 
N. H., where he remained a 
little more than three years, 
and then accepted the pas- 
torate of the First Congre- 
gational Church, Alfred, Me., 
where he is now laboring. 
July 27, 1887, he married 
Miss Laura Isabelle Drisko. 
They have one child, Mar- 
garet Newcomb, born in 
Derby, Vt., June 16, 1890. 




THE SHOE INDUSTRY OF DERRY DEPOT. 



THE greatest benefactor of the human race 
or ot an}' community in minor divisions of 
a commonwealth is the indi\'idual whose plans 
of business involve and provide occupation for 
the largest number of his fellow-citizens; and 
the organization of skilled and unskilled labor- 
ers into mutuall}- supporting corporations has 
marked a wonderful era of development and 
material prosperit}' in the historv of this coun- 
try. The time has passed when every man 
worked on an independent plan, and with his 
own hands raised, produced and provided for 
his family every article of food, clothing or fur- 
niture. Then the indispensable articles of sub- 
sistence were few, whereas in the present, under 
the influences of combined activities and the 
classification of labor, the average condition of 
the family is much superior to the most thrifty 
among the people of the generation preceding 
this. 

On the last day of November, 1870, there 
was little sign of prosperity or happiness in that 
portion of the town commonly called the Depot. 
The buildings then standing, few in number," were 
only partially occupied, and the absence of paint 
and finish, and the untidiness of the 3-ards and 
surrounding fields indicated the discontent and 
hopeless condition of the small community. The 
boot and shoe factor}- which had been built for 
the firm of Currier & Boyd about fifteen years 
before this period and the few tenement houses 
in the rear were participants in the general 
stagnation of industry. For two }ears there 
had been no sovmd of belt, wheel, machineiy, 
engine or laborers in the shop. On the first 
day of December of that year a new departure 
was inaugurated, that has proved a blessing to 
the community and town. Hon. W. fS. Pillsbury 
had been engaged in the manufacture of shoes 
for several years in Londonderry, and had felt 
the necessity for more room and better accom- 
modations with nearer access to railroad com- 
munications. The idle shop and tenements at 
the Depot gave him the advantages he desired. 
He purchased the boot and shoe factory, one- 



half ot the eighteen tenement houses and the 
store, at that time the onlv one at the Depot. 
The winter that had promised so little comfort 
to the discouraged families at the Depot sud- 
denly assumed a kindly aspect in the resump- 
tion of business and the confidence established 
at once by one whose reputation and experience 
had been fairly earned. Previous to this change 
of location Colonel Pillsbnry had allowed much 
ot the work upon his boots and shoes to be 
done at the homes of those employed. The 
cutting and finishing had been done at the shop, 
but the binding, fitting and bottoming were done 
outside. A change was immediately made in 
the distribution of labor, so that the fitting and 
bottoming were done at the factory and only 
the binding allowed to go outside. The work 
at the factory improved with the introduction 
ot new patterns and more perfect distribution of 
the details. The town received an impulse in 
the disposition of those employed in the factory 
to remain and purchase land and build houses 
lor permanent occupation. The office now used 
by Colonel Pillsbury, for several years, before 
he purchased it lor the accommodation of his 
assistants in the correspondence and book- 
keeping of the factory, was the schoolhouse of 
District No. 11. 

At the time when he started anew the 
lapsed boot and shoe industry at the Depot, the 
whole number of voters in that district could 
easily have been crowded into that building, 
whereas at the present time, the eligible school 
voters as shown b\' the check list are between 
twelve and thirteen hundred. This growth of 
Derry Depot has been steady and permanent, 
the larger number of houses being owned b}' 
the occupants, and many of them are substan- 
tially constructed and not devoid of taste in 
ornamentation. 

Great improvements have been made in 
labor-saving machines from the commencement 
until the present and the capacity of the factory 
has been increased from time to time to meet 
the requirements of the business. An average 





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oulhuof ten dollars a (la\' siiicc Drccnihcr i, 1S70, 
would not exceed the expense ot all the new ma- 
chintrv added to lessen the labor in the hands of 
those employed, and notwithstanding- these labof- 
savin<j chano^es, the number ol laborers has steadily 
inereased. The expenditures for machines to facil- 
itate work is estimated at not less than sixty thou- 
sand dollars, exclusive of the i)ower and boilers. 
Ouite recentlv a larye boiler has been purchased 
and |)ut in the factory, with the attachments and 



tension ol the oriyinal buiklin<i' to its j)resent size, 
that tlu' workmen miiiht accomi)lish more work 
with less expenditure- of strength, and have abun- 
dant space in which to move. The lenoth of the 
oriiQ;iiial buildina; used for the factory was ei^rhty- 
two feet. ^Additions ha\e been made in various di- 
rections, so that the equivalent lenoth of the fac- 
tory, if l)laced in one line, would be four hundred 
and thirty feet. Tiie buildinfjs ha\'e been painted 
and improv'ed b\' chaniivs that tend to secure them 







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OLD SHOE FACTORY, DERRY DEPOT. 

eni,dne, of which the capacity is estimated at one atjainst damatre by hre. The roofs, first covered 

lumdred and forty horse power, a little in excess oi with wooden shin<;les, are now entirely closed in 

the requirements, which are satisfied with one hun- by slate and iron. Electricity furnishes the means 

(bed and twenty-five horse power. The new en- of lightinjr when the dayli,<rht fails, or in the winter 

i,fine replaces two old ones that had become inade- when the days are short. 

i|uate to the work, a seventy-five and a twenty horse The shoe factories (;t the Depot are ])ractieally 

l)ower. The first boiler of the factory i^enerated a under one management, and dependent upon the 

steam force of onlv tifteen horse power. These plans and wishes of one man, who is the moxiny- 

inipro\(inenls have been in the interest of those antl conti-ollin<^- ])ower. The old shop, which Colo- 

cmploved i)v Colonel I'illsburv, as was also the ex- nel Pillsbin\- boutihl in 1S70. is not more luUy un- 



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wn.LErs noDK of nct field. 



der his charge and supervision than tlie new shcip 
that was built a few years ago bv the Derrv Build- 
ing Association, and in 1888 was enlarged and 
offered to him in the interest of the stockholders 
and citizens, who believed he had the al)ilitv and 
judgment to make the investment profitable to 
them and the town. Colonel Pillsburv has the en- 
tire confidence and support ot the cor))oration ot 
Coll)urn (S: Fuller, wh(«e names appear in the title 
of the firm, their interests beiny divided and dis- 




JOHN T. WHITELEY. 
Foreman of the Cutting Room. 

parsed to other towns and places, and chielh lim- 
ited to a compensation for capital. 

In the old and new shops from six hundred 
to seven hundred persons are employed. About 
three fifths of this working ft)rce are males, and 
two fifths women and girls. The average wages of 
the men is one dollar and eighty cents a day, and 
that of the women and girls one dollar and forty- 
five cents. In the payment of wages there has 
been little change in the period of twenty-four 
years. A quarter of a century has come and gone, 
ever bringing the laborer an even price for his ser- 



x'ices, and there has been no interru])tion except 
lor \ery brief periods of a lew da\'s at a lime. The 
benefit of a (|i:arter of a century's unbroken record 
of runniui;- machiner\", and certain, sure, and defi- 
nite pav-tlavs, has been seen and appreciated in the 
material growth and stability of Derry Depot. In 
the earlier years it was discovered that the total 
amount of mone\" ])ai(l out for wayes on an aver- 
age was about twenty-five per cent of the amount 
of money used in carrying on the business, includ- 
ing the buviny- of stock, machinery, etc. But for 
the last twelve or fifteen years this average has 
increased until the laborers now receive fulh' 
one thii'd ot all the mone\" consunu'd in the [n'o- 
ducti(»n ol tile finished goods. It now requires, 
in round numbers, six hundred thousand dollars a 
year to pa\" the wages and all the expenses of ma- 
terial, and keep the machinery in running order. 

A quarter of a centur\' brings many changes 
in the habits and dress of the American people, 
and \'ery noticeabh' in the varying styles of the 
shoe. The class of goods manufactured here when 
Colonel Pillsburv opened his factory, in 1870, could 
not be sold at any jjrice today in this country. His 
goods were well made and finely finished, and of 
the best material, but the demands of the market 
have wrought a complete change in the style and 
make-up of these goods. In the earlier years the 
Colonel employed men in the manufacture of both 
boots and shoes, and the variety of samples reached 
about five hundred. Then he iurnished boots and 
shoes for men. boys and children, as well as for 
women. But the progress of distributive labor and 
specialization ha\e made it more practicable for 
him to confine his business to the production of 
shoes for women, misses, and children. About 
three hundred varieties are now manufactured 
here. 

The shoes manufactured under the sujierin- 
tendence of Colonel Pillsburv have found a ready 
market in this country, and over a wide extent of 
the civilized world. The largest sales have been 
effected in the southern and western states. The 
New England group has called for a reasonable 
jtroportion of the products, Rhode Island in partic- 
ular having been a regular and valued consumer 
bevond her relative area. It is interesting to ob- 
serve the extent to which foreign countries have 



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contrihiitrd to the deserved ix'|)ul;ili()n of this 
American industry. Most European countries en- 
aacje the services of shoemakers and other laborers 
at much lower prices than are i)aid to men in the 
same <jrades of work in the I'nited States. And 
\-et En<Tland has been no small consumer of the 
|)roducts of this new villaye of Derry Depot, in what 
was once called His Royal Majesty's Province of 
New Hampshire, in New England. But the styles 
of a year in New England are now as numerous 




WILLIAM II. BENSON. 
Foreman of itie Bottoming Room. 

and \aried as those ot a eentui\' in the did coun- 
tiics 1)1 Europe, and the slioes thai aic wtirn there 
are no longer made in this eountrw and the shoes 
made for this countrv are as \et eliiellv conlined in 
Europc-an countries to the use oi' inHuence ot 
.Ann'iicans \\dio aie li\ing abroad, kw connected 
with cciminercial hduses thei'e. Notwithstanding 
this, Gernian\', through the achniration tliev who 
ha\'e settled in .Vmerica feel for America and 



American methods of doing things, has been a 
large purchaser of American products, and Colonel 
Pillsbury has received and lilled some good orders 
for shoes made here. Far away in Russia the sam- 
ples of this factory found interested examiners, and 
elicited one of the largest orders received for ship- 
ment of shoes. Even under the shadow of the 
pyramids in Egypt shoe dealers have heard of 
these shoes and forwarded orders for consig-nments. 
Very many shipments are made to the West In- 
dies, presumably to meet the needs of Americans 
who have settled there, or annually flock there to 
escape the severities of our winter climate. Large 
consignments have frequently l)een made to N'uka- 
tan, and both coasts of South America are open to 
the sale of these goods, and under favorable cir- 
cumstances, that is, when not engaged in warfare, 
or contracting their import trade, they have gi\-en 
this manufacturing house a fair ])roportion of 
orders. 

'I'here havealways existed the most harmonious 
relations between Colonel Pillsbur\- and the men 
and Women associated witli him in this industry, so 
fruitful in the founding of a vigorous community. 
This manifestation of appreciation may indicate 
the character of the people, and promises well for 
the permanent maintenance of good feeling. He 
has endeax'ored to introduce as few changes as 
possible in the divisions of labor or the wages. 
Certainly there have been no radical changes, un- 
less an exception is made in the instance of aban- 
doning the old s\'stem of pegged work for the 
more modern s\stem of sewed work, and the use 
of the standai'd wire screw. There has never 
been a strike at this factory since the commence- 
ment of the Colonel's interest therein, and he has 
never once laili'd to give the operatives their wages 
on the regular pay-days. Until June, iSgj;, the 
shops were never shut down for want of orders. 

I'his is a record ol twenty-four \-ears tliat can 
scareeh' Imd a paialhl in tiie history of manufaetui- 
ing industries, and with pardonable pride the Colo- 
nel ma\' look upon the business he controls, the 
buildings erected under his superintendence, the 
growth of the town, the exidences of material pros- 
perit\' ol the peopk\ and other enteiprises of moi'e 
recent beginning, as all ilue in a gi"eat measuif to 
his own energ\- and |)erseyerance. 



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WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFTELD. 



COL. WILLIAM S. PILLSBURV, son of the 
late Rev. Stephen Pillshury, a Baptist eler- 
,yyman, well known throu,u;hout New IIam])shire, 
was born Mareh i6, 1833, at Sutton. His early 
edueational advantatjes were limited, and he learned 
the shoemaker's trade when fourteen years of a^e. 
His ener2;v and ability placed him, when twenty 
years of age, in the position of superintendent of a 
shoe factory at Cille\sville. From there he was 
engaged as agent by a lirm of shoe manufacturers 
just starting business at Deny Depot. Upon the 
opening of the war he enlisted and was commis- 



last call, and was commissioned lieutenant of Co. 
D, Unattached Artillery, under the command of 
Capt. George Colhath of Dover. Being later ap- 
l)ointed ordnance officer of the First brigade, Har- 
ding's division, stationed at Fort Reno, Md., he re- 
mained there until the close of the war, and was 
mustered out at Concord, June 15, 1865. He 
soon began the manufacture of shoes at London- 
derry, successfully carr\-ing on the business there 
until the need of larger buildings induced him to 
remove to Deny Depot, where he has since re- 
mained. Colonel Pillsbury has filled numerous 




NEW SHOE FACTORY, DERRV DEPOT. 

sioned first lieutenant in Co. I of the I^^iurtii N. H. offices of public trust. In 1869 he was elected a 
Regt. A severe accident which he met with at commissioner for Rockingham county ; he has rep- 
Annapolis forced him to return home, but here- resented his town in the legislature ; he was elected 
enlisted upon recoxery, being made first lieutenant a member of Go\'ernor Croodell's council, running 
in Co. H, Ninth N. H. \'ols., and was in the en- ahead of his ticket; he serx'ed on the staff of Gov- 
gagements at South Mountain and Antietam. Ill- ernor Prescott, deriving thence his title of colonel, 
ness compelled him to s-esign his commission, and and he has been moderator at town meetings for a 
he was ne.xt engaged to sui)erintend experts in the gieat man\- xears. Colonel Pillsbur\- is a lifelong 
manutaeture ot shoes by New England methods at Republican, and a member of the Presbyterian 
Wheeling, W. Va. Returning to Londonderr\- church, of which he has long been a trustee, 
when he had fully regained his health, he raised for Colonel Pillsbur\- was married Ajiril 15, 1S56, 
the town its quota of thirty men under Lincoln's to Miss Martha Sih'cr Crowell, daughter of Capt. 



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Peter Cnnvell, of Londdiidcn \ . 
;iic : Rosccrans \V.. C'liaiKs II. L 
rivsses Grant. 



'I'licir cliildrrn 
1 larrict L.. and 



I '\. WHITELEV was Ix.rn in N'orkshnc. 
*-J • I'ln^land, in 1S42. liotli his parents dyina; 
hi-fore he was a \-ear ()1<1, his advantaiies for secur- 
ing even the rudiments of an education were very 
hniited, antl he was early thrown upon his own re- 
sources. He was put to work in a factory when 
seven vears of age, being obliged to labor half of 
each day, and attend school the other half, until he 
was twelve years old, when he began to work all 
(lav. When he was about sixteen he awakened to 
I lie fact tliat knowledge is of great assistance in 
lighting the battles of life, and so he began to de- 
\'ote his evenings to studv, devouring everv book 
that he could borrow. Two of his uncles were in 
America, and ha\'ing a strong desire to come to 
this countrv, he saxed u]) his pennies until he had 
enough to buv a [lostage stam|). wiiich at that time 
cost a shillin<)', in order to write to them. It did 



not pro\i' a pa\ing investment, howe\'cr, for he 
ne\'er reeeixx'd a leph', and so he kept ploddin^r 
along in the old countr\-. In his twentieth \ear. 
on June q, 1S63, he was married to Miss Ann I)\-- 
son, all the capital the voung couple possessed 
being their willing hantls. One child, Marv [., born 
Mav 10, 1S65, has been added to the familv. Ten 
years later a favorable opportunity of coming to 
America was offered to Mr. Whiteley, and although 
the iirm for which he had worked more than 
twenty years endeavored to dissuade him, he set 
sail with his wife and daughter, and landed in Bos- 
ton Mav 16, 1875, settling in Haverhill, and find- 
ing emjilovnu-nt in a shoe factor\', tiirough the 
kindness of Mr. John Pilling. In 1877 Mr. White- 
lev came to Derrv, where, with the exception of 
three visits to his native land, he has resided ever 
since, b^or live vears he has occupied his jiresent 
jiosition, that of foreman of tlu- cutting room in 
the shoe tactorv. Mr. Whiteley ascribes the suc- 
cess he has attained in life to the assistance given 
him b\- his faithful and ener<retic wife. 





VIEW OK DERR-S' DEPOT, FROM THE WEST. 



ORIGIN OF THE NUTFIELD COLONY. 



IT has been said of the emigrants of 1719, who Surrounded as they were l)y the native Irish Cath- 
founded the colony of Nutfield, that in the as- ohcs, with whom it was impossible for them to 
sured hope of securing; freedom of conscience and affdiatc, and breathino- the subtle atmosphere of 
religious liberty, they were willing to take their hostilitv, their position was most uncomfortable, 
chances in worldly matters, whereas the emigrants The hundred years of residence in Ireland had only 
of todav would, if necessary, reverse that order, and served to accentuate the differences between the 
imperil their religious rather than their material in- Scotch and Irish characters, as Macaulav has so well 
terests. However that mav be, certain it is that shown in his summing up of the state of affairs e.\- 
in these piping times of religious toleration no isting at that time. Hesa\s: "On the same soil 
Protestant ever leaves Catholic Ireland, and no dwelt two populations, locally intermixed, morally 
Catholic ever leaves Protestant England, in order and [xilitically sundered. The difference of religion 
to obtain freedom of conscience. It is rather the was bv no means the oid\- difference, and was per- 
freedom which money will buy that he seeks upon haps not the chief difference, which existed between 
these shores. So it is often difficult now to real- them. They sprang from different stocks. They 
ize that less than two centuries ago the founders spoke different languages. They had different na- 
of Nutlield ct)lony preferred the hardships and dan- tional cliai'actcrs, as strongly opposed as an\' two na- 
gers of the wilderness in an inhospitable clime to tional characters in luuojie. They were in widely 
the comforts of established homes in a beautiful different stages of civilization. There could, there- 
land. It would, however, be erroneous to su|)i)ose fore, be little sympathy between them, and centuries 
that those high-minded men, with their lofty ideals of calamities and wiongs had generated a strong an- 
and noble characters, were guided wholly by reli- lipathy. The relation in which the minority stood 
gious motives in their determination to emigrate, to the majority resembled the relation in which the 
There were material as well as spiritual reasons for followers of William the Conquerer stood to the 
leaving their native land. Although the Protest- Saxon churls, or the relation in which the followers 
ant cause had been tirml\- established in Ireland, of Cortez stood to the Indians of Mexico. The 
and they were permitted to maintain their own appellation of Irish was then gi\en exclusively to 
forms of worship unmolested, still, as Presbyterians the Celts, and to those families which, though not 
and dissenters from the Church of England, they of Celtic origin, had in the course of ages degen- 
were hampered in many ways. They were com- crated into Celtic manners. These people, proba- 
pelled to give u]) a tenth jiart of their income for l)l\- somewhat under a million in numbei', had, with 
the support of the established religion, and the\- few exceptions, adhered to the Church of Rome, 
held their lands and tenements by lease from the Among them resided about two hundred thousand 
crown, and not as proprietors of the soil. This colonists, jiroud of their Saxon blood and of their 
taxation was not only burdensome, but it was gall- Protestant faith. The great prej)onderance of 
ing in the extreme. Nor was this trammelling of numbers on one siile was more than compensated 
their civil and religious rights the only cause of bv a great sujierioritv of intelligence, vigor, and or- 
their dissatisfaction with the conditions at home, ganization on the other. The English settlers 

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49 



si'fiii til Ikuc liccn, in l<iiii\\lc(loc, t'iuTy\', ami per- al\\a\s he a lascinatinti" one, for tliost' dark and 

si'X'craiice, rather ah()\c than heh)\v thi- avcratj'e traijic years hctwcen 1640 and i68qin the north of 

h-\i'l of the popuhuion of the mother eountrv. Irehmd are memorable in the world's history. 

'I'he ahoris^inal })easantr\', on the contrary were in Some ol the l)itterest conflicts were waited there 



an ahnost savaije state." 

Small wonder then thai the Xutlield settlers 
were not loth to csca|)e all these embarrassments, 
antl that they were willing to forej^o many material 
ct)mforts for the sake of a laro^er civil liberty. The 
stinxly old James MacCxretjor, one of the four [las- 
lors who accompanied their lioeks to America, and 
(he lirst minister of Londonderry, preached a ser- 
mon to his people just before their embarkation, 
and it is interesting- to note his reasons for their 
lemoyal to this country. He was no hypocrite, 
but frank and honest, and it is significant that he 
puts the worldb' reason first, and the spiritual rea- 
son last : ■• 1. To avoid oppression and cruel bond- 
age. 2. To shun iiersecution and designed ruin. 

3. 'l"o withdraw from the communion of idolators. 

4. To have an opportunit\' ol worshiping Crod ac- 
cording to the tlictates of conscience and the rules 
of His inspired Word." 



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LONDONDERRY, IRELAND. FROM THE NORTH 

They were great men, those first settlers of 
Nutlield, but after all they were human, and made 
of the same stuff as their descendants, who possess 
(|uile as much latiait heroism and nobility of char- 
acter. Still, the stoiy of e\'ents in Ireland [yreced- 
ing the emigration of the Nutlield colonists will 



that have ever been fought for human libert\-, and 
the bra\e (k-fence ol Londonderr\' marks a great 



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LONDONDERRY, IRELAND, FROM THE SOUTH. 

epoch in the world's progress. Hence the appro- 
priateness of a brief outlin^-4)f those historic events 
in this Hook ol Nutlield. 

Londonderry, Ireland, was settled bv the de- 
scendants of a colony which migrateil from Argyle- 
shire, Scotland, about the year 1612. They were 
induced to settle in Ireland by the fact that James 
I., after the suppression of a rebellion b\' his Cath- 
olic subjects, had acquired almost the whole of the 
six northern counties of Ireland, and he encour- 
aged his Scotch and English subjects, by liberal 
grants, to settle there, in the hope that their pres- 
ence might (juell the turbulent Irish sjjirits. The 
Irish rebellit)n in the reign of Charles I. originated 
in the hatred with which the Irish Catholics re- 
garded their Protestant neighbors. A general mas- 
sacre was planned, but the plot was fortunately dis- 
covered in Dublin. In other parts of Ireland, how- 
ever, it is said that one hundred and fifty thousand 
persons were killed. During Cromwell's time the 
Protestants were protected from the enmity ol the 
Irish Catholics, but James II. greatly disaffected 
his English subjects by his attempts to re-establish 



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tin- suprcmacN" o 



f the Church of Rome. WilHam, 



Ena:lan(l to attempt a revolution and ascend the 
throne. He accordinuiy landed in Enijland in No- 
vember, 1688, and was soon joined by the principal 
lords. James escajied to I<"rance, where Louis 






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walker's iM(1NUMENT, LONDON! iKKRV. IRELAND. 

XI\\ advised him to attempt reiijainino: his throne. 
'rhouu;h William of Oraniic had been electetl kiny, 
Ireland still maintained its allea^iance to James, and 
'r\ reonnel, the loi'd lieutenant, beuan raising;- new 
le\'ies of troops, [ames resolved to cross over to 
Ireland, subdue tiie jilaces which offered resistance, 
proceed to Scotland, and then meet William's 
forces in England. I lad not his plans been spoiled 
b\- Ihe bold defence of Li.ndonderry, there is little 
doubt that he would havi' bi'en successful, and that 
Catholicism would ha\e bi'en re-established in 
Great Britain. So tliis small cit\- of Londonderrv 
became the arena on which the fate of reli<iious 
freedom was decided. 

Londonderry, situated one luuulred and fifty 
miles northwest of Dublin, was the Protestant 
stronfjhold of the north of Ireland, and was the 
only place, e.xceptins; Enniskillen, which offered 
effectual resistance to the arms of James. Tyrcon- 
nel determined to seize the citv and hold it for the 
deposed kiny-, but the inhabitants, learnmy that a 
regiment of Pajtal troops was on the way to the 
city, refused to desert the cause of Protestantism. 



The y-ates were closed against the re<^iment, and 
that was the beii'innim;- of the famous siege of Lon- 
donderr\-. which lasted from December 7, 1688, 
until Jul\' jS, 1689. During those seven or eight 
months the sufferings of the besieged were such as 
can be onh' imagined, not described. So often has 
the harrowing tale been told that its repetition 
here is unneeessarw All the horrors of bombard- 
ment, star\ation, sickness, pestilence, dangers with- 
cjut and treacherous foes within the walls, hope of 
relief deferred again and again, until the \'er\' last 
extremitv was reached, — all this, and more, was en- 
dured bv the brave men and women who held out 
for principle. In Julv, so reduced was the sui)plv 
of pro\isions that a rat sold for a shilling, and a 
mouse for sixpence, while a cat brought foui' shil- 
lings and sixpence. Tallow and salted hides were 
a luxurv. One corpulent man, fearing that the 
sokliers might kill and eat him, concealed himself 
for several davs. Despair had begun to settle down 
on nearly every heart. But deliverance was soon 
at hantl, and the siege was at an end. It had cost 
nearl\- fue thousand lives of tlie beleaguered and 
nine thousand of the Catholic forces. 



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SHIP 1,)UAY STREET, LONDONDERRY, IRELAND. 

Some of these brave defenders of London- 
derrv, or their descentlants, were the settlers of 
Nutfield, and such men were well prc|)ared to en- 
counter the hardshijis of founding a colony in the 
wilderness. So important did the king and parlia- 



]\'/L LET'S BOOK OF NI'TFIErD. 



SI 



nu'iit consider tlu' defence of Londonderry, that an returned fioni Haverhill by way of Dracut, in or- 
act was passed exemj)tin£j from taxation throujxli- der to hrint,^ with them Rev. Mr. McGreiror, who 
out the British dominions all who had borne arms had spent the winter there in teachin<j, and the two 
in the citv durintj the sieijc, and of this act those parties met, accordinsr to tradition, at a spot wiiieh 
who settled in Nutlield axailed themselves until the has ever since been known as Horse hill, on the 
Ami-rican Rexolution, occu])vinti- lands known as farm now occui)ied bv James M. Bachelder. Here 
tiie " exemi)t farms." 

In 171S, for the reasons oiven above, tour Pres- 
Interian ministers of Londonderry, James Mac- 
Greu'or, William Connvell, William Howl, and 
John Holmes, with portions of their respective 
cono-re(rations, determined to emiii'rate to America. 
Thev embarked in five ships for Boston, and ar- 
ri\-ed there August 4, 1718. Sixteen of the fami- 
lies went to Casco Bav, Me., and remained there 
duriny- the winter, sufferins; ,<i,reat privations from 
lack of food and shelter. James McKeen, the 
y-randfather of the lirst president of Bowdoin col- 
k'ti'e, was one of the companw In the spriny' of 
I 719 the little colonv left their winter quarters and 
went to Haverhill, where thev heard of a fine tract 
of land about fifteen miles distant, called Nuffield, 
from the abundance of its chestnut, walnut, and 







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ENNISKII.I.F.N. IKKr.ANI). 

they tied their horses, and Mr. MacGresjor made 
an address, conc^ratulatinsj his flock on their safe 
arrival, and t'xhortini,^ them to continued confi- 
dence in God. On the ft)llovving day, April 12, 
1719, old style, he returned to his familv in Dracut, 
luit before ijoing he delivered the first sernum ever 
|)rcached in Nutfield. The spot chosen for this 
first reli<rious service was under a large oak, on the 
east side of Beaver pond, and Mr. MacGregor's 
text was from Isaiah xxxii. 2 : " And a man shall 
be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert 
from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a drv i)lace; 
as the shadow of a great rock in a wearv land." 
After standing more than a hundred and twenlv- 
five vears the oak tree fell through dccav, and the 
owner ot the titdd ])lanted an apple tree on the spot 
as a mt-morial, which also fell tliiough dccav some 
butternut trees. Wcw the\' determined, after an years ago. Some time in Mav following the ar- 
inxestigation, to take uj) the grant which thev had rival of the settlers, Mr. MacGregor removed with 
ol'.taiued from Massachusetts of a township twelve his familv from Dracut to Nutfield and assumed 
miles S(|uare. ,\fter building a few tem|)orar\- huts the pastoral charge of the society. Thus was the 
tiie\- returned to lln\-erliill birtheii' families, house- first Presbyterian church in New England formally 
hold goods, and pio\isions. Some of llu' eompanv organized, and to that church most of the other 






THE DIA.MONU, LONUONDKRKN'. IRKLAND. 



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'J'HE FIRST SERMON INf NUTFIEI.D, 



]r//.L/i}"S /;0()A' OF NIJTFIELD. 



53 



churches of this denominatidn in New Enijland, 
directly or indircctl\-, owe their existence. Mr. 
MacGregor, who was then forty-two \'ears of age, 
had received a thomugh classical and theological 
etlueation, an<l was a man of great courage. 
Thcnigh onl\' t\\H-l\'e years oltl at tlie time of the 
siege of L(Mnlon<li'rr\-, he bore an active part in 
its defence, and had ihe honor of firing the great 
gun in the tower of the cathedral, [Ihe cuts of 
Londonderry herewith given show tlie cathedral 
on the highest point of land] answering the ships 
which brought relief from the long agony. His 
death in 1729 was mourned as a ])ublic calamity. 

The events immediatelv following the estab- 
lishment of Nutlield colony, the many trying ex- 
j)eriences ot pioneer life, the long and vexatious 
delays in getting clear titles to the lands, and in 
securing the incorporation of the town, are narrated 
elsewhere in this work. 



Keeper of the village fold. 
Seventy years he 's seen already : 
Still his step is firm and steady. 
And his eye is keen and bold. 

Neither wrong nor vice he s]jares ; 

Not alone the pastoral crook. 

But the smooth stones from the brook, 

Close at hand. 
And the ready sling he bears : 
And. if any go astray. 
He is not afraid to use them : — 
Better wound his flock than lose them. 
Blindly wandering away. 



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EV. MATTHEW CLARK, the second min- 
ister of Londonderry, came to this town in 
I 729. He supplied the desk, made vacant that year 
ii\- tlie death of Re\'. James MacGregor, four years, 
until the settK'ment of Rev. Thomas Thompson, in 
1733. He lived but six years attei' et)ming here, 
dying Januar\- 25, 1735, and though never installed 
over the church, more is known of him bv the peo- 
ple of the present day than is known of two of his 
successors — Mr. Thompson and Mr. Davidson — 
though their united ]iastorates amounted to fifty- 
live years. 

The following i)oem, written b\' Marian Doug- 
las, was read by Hon. James W. Patterst)n at the 
Londonderry celebration, 1869: 

Fresh leaves glisten in the sun. 

And the air is soft and clear ; 
"I'is the spring-tide of the year 
Of our Lord 

Seventeen hundred ihirty-one. 
'Tis the robin's wedding time, 

And a breath of plum and cherry 

Makes the air of Londonderry 

Sweet as P",den in its prime. 

On the road the shadow falls 
Of the Reverend Matthew Clark, 
Man of |)rayer and man of mark, 

Out today, 
Making some parochial calls. 



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X 



Hopeful for the days to be. 
Forward all his dreams are cast, 
But his memories of the ])ast, 

One and all. 
Lie in lands beyond the sea ; 
For, but lately, from abroad. 
To light up the Deny weavers. 



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Honest men and true believers. 
Came this "candle of the Lord." 

Matching well his dauntless mien. 
On his temple is a scar. 
(You can see it just as far 

As his wig 
Or the man himself is seen.) 
Bravely won when. Heaven's own liege, 
'Mid the groans of starved and dying- 
He had fought, on God relying. 
In the Londonderry siege. 



Still that memory remains : 
And a sound of martial strife. 
Beat of drum, or shriek of fife, 

ALakes the blood 
Thrill and tingle in his veins : 
And his heart grows young again. 
Thinking of the vanished glory 
Of those days renowned in story. 
Days of triumph and of pain. 

When, his cold breath on each brow. 
Brave men. without doubt or dread. 
Looked in Death's stern eyes and said, 

Gravely firm. 
We are stronger far than thou 1 
Friends of Truth, and foes of Guilt. 
Wounded, starving, fainting. breathles;s 
We are (iod's. and God is deathless. — 
Take us. leave us. as thou wilt 1 " 



A WEDDING IN THE OLDEN TIME 
•'* was an extremely lively affair. The quests 
were all invited at least three davs beforehand ; 
,a-uns were lired in the respective neifrhhorhoods of 
bride and s.j'room on the morninii' of the wedtlinti,' 
day, and at the a])j)ointed hotii' the oiDom and his 
friends set out from his house. About half wa\- to 
the bride's dwelling they were met bv her male 
friends, and each company chose one man to "run 
for the bottle," to the house of the bride. The 
one who returned first with the bottle gave a toast 
and drank to the bridegroom's health, after which 
the beverage was of course passed around. Then 
the whole part\" ])roceeded, fu'ing their muskets as 
they went by the houses on the way. Arrived at 
the bride's home, the bridegroom's company were 
placed in a r(K)m by themselves, and it was consid- 
ered an act of impoliteness for an\' of the bride's 
friends to intrude. Just before the ceremony was 
to begin the best man enteretl the bride's apart- 
ment, led her into the r(jom, and, i)lacing her at 
the right hand of the groom, took his station im- 
mediately behind, as did also the "best maid." 
After the ceremony all the men kissed the bride, 
and all the women kissed the groom. Dinnei- bil- 
lowed, and then came dancing and other amuse- 
ments. 



But today the air of spring 
Breathes around a peaceful calm. 
And his thoughts are like a ])salm, 

" Praise to God ! " 
.Sung by Lsrael's shepherd king; 
And around him Fancy paints 
Here the budding rod of Aaron, 
'i'here the mystic rose of Sharon, 
And the lilies of the saints. 

And the wind that softly steals 
From the orchard trees in bloom. 
Laden with their sweet perfume. 

Seems to him 
Blowing from celestial fields. 
Priest and teacher of the town. 
Long as stands good Londonderry. 
With its stories sad and merrv. 
Shall thy name be handed down 
As a man of prayer and mark. 
Grave and reverend Matthew Clark ! 




GEOROK W. KLMI'.ALL'S RESIDENCE, NORTH LONUONUERRV. 



ll//././n-S JiOOK OF XCTFrEl.n. 



ss 



T WARREN BA1LI*^\' was hmn June 3, 1846, daufj^hter. His second wife was Miss Jennie N. 
^ • (111 what is known as the Chester road, in the Loud, of IMvmouth, Me. 
Kni^hsh Ranii'e district, lieintj the eldest son of |ere- 

iniah and 1 larriet N. (Mayoon) Hailev. 'I'here he CLDKR JOHN PINKERTON, who opened, 
passed his li()\-|i(!(id (hns, attending the (hstrict al)()Ut tlie vear i 750, the first store of foreitjn 

school and, hiter, Pinkerton Acadeniw At the age imd (h)mestic tjoods in Londonderry, i)osscssed 

uncommon financial ability, unitino- in his char- 
acter Scotch i)rudence with \'ankee enterprise. 
He and his hiother James were the principal hank- 
ers and money lenders of the town, and thev were 
particularly careful in makino; loans to ha\e the 
very best of security. They yeneralh" wanted 
more than Iwo names cm a note, and if only one 
indorser was presented, the elder would insist on 
another, sayinii', "A threefold cord is not easily 
broken; you may o^ive me another name." 

DEV. MATTHEW CLARK, who succeeded 
Mr. MacGrejtror as pastor, was sometimes 
sensational in his pulpit methods. It is related of 
him that on one occasion he took his text from 
Philipi)ians i\-. 13, and thus beoan his sermon : •■ • I 
can do all Ihins^s' — ay, can ve, Paul? I'll bet ye 
a dollar on that," and he drew a Spanish dollar 
trom his jiocket and placed it on the desk. •• Stop ! 
let's sec what Paul says: 'I can do all thinys 
throuoh Christ, which strenotheneth me.' Ay, so 
can I, Paul; I draw my bet," and he thereupon 
put the dollar back into his pocket. 

J. WARRF.N BAILEY. 

of nineteen he accepted a position as officer at the 
I'^hode Island state prison, remaininy- at this insti- 
tution, and at the Massachusetts state |)rison, about 
six years, a ])ortion of the time as deputy warden. 
Since then he has been enyayed in mercantile pur- 
suits in Boston, for the past ten years at No. 108 
Tiemont street. In Somerville, Mass., where for 
more than twenty years Mr. Bailey has resided, he 
has been prominenth' identified with public affairs. 
ha\in<i- ie])resented his waid in the cit\- council fm 
se\cial years, and his city in the le<{islature for 
two terms. He is at present a member of the 
state boaid of |>rison commissioners, president ol 
the West Someryille Co-operati\e Bank, and a 
director in the Someryille bank. In 1872 Mr. 
Bailey married for his first wife Miss Emma R. 
Clark, of Derry, who died in 1884, leaving one charles mcat.i.ister's residence, Londonderry. 





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WlLLHrs JiOOK OF NCTFIELD. 



IRA H. ADAMS, M. D., the son of Jarvis and him, and who trust that the- impairnu-nt of his 

Eunice (Mitchell) Adams, was horn Auy-. lo, usefulness is Init temporary. 

1S46, in Pomfret, Vt. His earlv education was 

obtained in the public school of his native town, MENRY PARKINSON, who was General 

and, later, at Meriden, N. IL, where he was fitted ^ ' Stark's quartermaster and intimate friend, 

for college. He studied medicine at Bowdoin and came with his ])arents from Londonderry, Ireland, 

Dartmouth medical colleges, graduating from the to Londonderry in 1744. He received a thorough 

latter institution. In 1874 he began practice in classical education, graduating in 1765 from Nas- 

Hooksett, remt)ving later to Derrv Depot, where sau hall, now Princeton college. His parents in- 

he has since resided. August 31, 1875, '''^' ^^''^^ tended him for the Presbyterian ministry, but he 

married to Miss Louise S. Perley, of Lempster, N. could not accept the doctrine of "election" held 

H. Two children have been added to the family: by that church, and so he devoted himself to teach- 

Richard Herbert, born June 10, 1876, and Jennie ing. When the news came from Lexington in 



Louise, born Sept. 
15,1881. Dr. Adams 
has attained high 
honors in Odd Fel- 
lowship, having unit- 
ed with the order in 
187s, '^t Suncook, 
and having been pro- 
m o ted successively 
through all the de- 
crees to grand patri- 
arch, and grand rep- 
resentative to the 
sovereign grand 
lodge. Dr. Adams's 
pronounced success 
as a physician has 
been due not less to 
his broatl and svmpa- 
thetic mind than to 
the many years of 
hard a n d fait h f u 1 




DR. ADAMS S RE.SIDENCE, DERRY DEPOT. 



April, 1776, Parkin- 
son immediately en- 
listed in a company 
of ninety-nine min- 
ute men, under Capt. 
George Reid, and 
s o o n j o i n e d t h e 
A m eric a n a r m )'. 
M arching as a private 
to the field, Parkin- 
son was immediately 
calletl b\- Stark, who 
was well acquainted 
with him, to the (|uar- 
termastership of his 
regiment, sharing 
with the hero the 
honors of Bunker 
1 nil and l^-nnington, 
and continuing in ac- 
tive service as quar- 
termaster through- 
between the oreneral 



work which he has devoted to the profession, out the war. The intimacy 

Reali/inti' that medicine is as vet more of an art and his quartermaster lasted throughout life, antl 

than a science, and that its principles are not all after the old hero, in his great age, was confined 

summed up in dry formulas, he has carried ever\- at home, Parkinson visited him every year. On 

where into his practice the indispensable element retiring from the army, he returned at once to his 

of personal sympathy, which in man\' cases is more former work of teaching, and established a classical 

efficacious than any drug. The natural conse- school at Concord, which attained a wide reputa- 

quence of this trait in his character has been over- tion, and which he conducted for many years, 

work, and the ta.xing of his physical powers to About 1800 he removed to a farm in Canterbury, 

such an extent as to render necessary a rela.xation and divided his remaining years between farming 

of his professional labors. Of such a man it is but and teaching. His death occurred in 1820. His 

scant praise to say that he is " popular," for Dr. wife was Jenett McCurdy, and one of his chil- 

Adams is loved and respected by all who know dren, Mrs. Daniel Blanchard, born in Concord, 



WILLED S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



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WILLETS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



in 1/88, lived to be nearly lOO years of a.cje. Park- 
inson was a fine liniiuist, and spoke Latin lUienth'. 
On a slatestone slal) in the cemetery at Canter- 
bury Centre is his epita])li, which reads as follows: 



Hltc Hl' interred the remains of Henry Parkinson. \. M.. 
long distinguished as an excellent classical scholar. The follow- 
ing brief epitome of his life was composed by himself: ■■ Hiber- 
nia me genuit, America nutrivit : docm', militavi, ati|ue manus 
laboravi : et nunc terra me occii|iat. et ipiiete in pulxere dormio 
quasi in gremio materno meo: Hue ades, amice mi care, aspice, 
et memento ut moriendum quocjue certe sit tibi. Ergo vale et 
cave." Abeit 23d Maie A. I). 1820. aet. 79. 

The Latin \x\a\ be rendered into English thus: 



Ireland gave me birth. America l)rought me up: I taught. 
did military service, and labored with my hands: and now the 
earth embraces me. and 1 sleep ipiietly in the dust as on my ma- 



ternal bosom. Come hither, my dear friend, and rememlier that 
you also must surely die. Therefore farewell and beware. 
Died May 23. 1820. aged 79. 



CAMILV PR.W'ER was resrularl\ observed 
^ every morning and every eveninu m all the 
rude dwellings of the early settlers, antl the Scrip- 
tures were devoutly read. If any famdy omitted 
these daily acts of devotion, there would immedi- 
ately be an investigation bv the jiastor. It is 
related that Rev. Mr. MacGregor was one evening 
informed that a member of his lloek had become 
neglectful of family worship. He went at once to 
his house, and finding that the familv hatl retired 
for the night, called uj) the man and asked if the 
report was true. The fact was admitted, and the 
pastor, re])ro\'ing him stern]\' for his fault, refused 
to leave the house until the backslider had knelt 
and offered up praver. 




W. p. .MACKS RKSIDENCK, LONUONDEKKV. VIEW FROM THE SOUTH. 



THE ENGLISH RANGE IN NUTFIELD, 



BY REV. JESSE G. McMURPHY. 



"\An'rHIN twelve months after the arrival of 
^ ' the first sixteen families, the population of 
Nutlield, afterward the incorporated township of 
Londonderrv, numl)ered several hundred, and 
simultaneously the alldtinents of homesteads were 
made to the proprietors under the charter to the 
number of one hundred and twentv-four and a half 
shares, exclusive of larsje awards in land ^iven to 
some particularlv influential persons who had as- 
sisted the emiorants in securing' a g-rant of land. 
About seven thousand five hundred acres were laid 
out in homesteads under the schedule as recorded 
with the charter, June i, 1722, and on the same 
dav one thousand eight hundred and fiftv-six acres 
were allowed as rewards for special services to 
thirteen persons directlv connected with the pro- 
curing of clear titles to the land. The largest 
grants of land for special services were made to 
the officers of the crown, who acted as mediators 
between the colonists and the king. These loyal- 
ists were the Lieutenant Governor of His Ma- 
jesty's Province of New Hampshire in New Eng- 
land, and that l)()d\' of followers commonly 
designated as the governor's suite, with colonels 
and men of military insignia in the service of the 
king. These persons received grants of land in 
proportion to the supposed importance of their 
rank and services, not alone in Nutfield but in 
various other settlements over a wide area of land 
not very clearly defined in early records. 

Without controversy the section of the town- 
ship which was called the English Range cm- 
braced the most pronounced Tory faction, and as 
Englishmen in sentiment, spirit, and religious 

3 



opinions the settlers there had a profound con- 
tempt for the zeal, piety, and learning of the fugi- 
tive Covenanters by whose pestiferous preaching 
tlie whole of Great Britain was shaken. 

The series of parallel homesteads that may 
properly be designated as the English Range began 
at the most easterly corner of Beaver pond and 
extended in the form of a rectangle whose longer 
side lav in a due northwest line to a point near 
Shields's upper pond, and the shorter line lay in a 
due northeast line along the course of the stream 
above Beaver pond to the limit of Haverhill False 
Line, so called by reason of a claim that the people 
of Haverhill made to the part of this town then 
hing east of a meridional line through that corner 
of the English Range. The longer side of the 
rectangle was about six hundred rods in length 
antl the shorter, the length of a farm or homestead 
of the common pattern, three hundred and twenty 
rods. An actual survey of the farms covered by 
the transcripts of the allotments shows the area of 
the English Range to have exceeded the amounts 
indicated in the records. This excess of land area 
is not peculiar to this range, for examination leads 
to the conclusion that many allowances were made 
on general principles for irregularities in the sur- 
face and especially for poor land, or land already 
partially pre-empted for hay privileges. The 
meadows were measured and bounded separately 
from the uplands, and frequently the meadow pri- 
vileges of a settler would be staked and bounded 
within the limits and boundaries of his neighbor's 
farm. The laying out o{ meadows in the Proprie- 
tors' Book comprises a large part of the record. 



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init in a oreneral review of the limits prescribed in 
these articles, no particular attention can be given 
to this feature of the original i)lan oi the land 
division. 

The Enelish Rano-e embraced a beautiful tract 
of land, with fine glimpses of Beaver pond from 
almost everv part, and some of the farms running 
completelv down to the tirm shores were selected 
for the more noted persons of the community. 
The map will show the plan of arrangement. The 
lirst lot of the series lies just over the stream above 
Heaver jiond, that is, upon the southeast bank, and 
was assigned to David Cargill, including the ])rivi- 
leges of the stream for mill puri)oses. It should 
be noted that he had a niilldam at either end of 
this farm, and at a very early period of the town's 
historv. He operated two or more mills at these 
points, twice utilizing the same stream for power. 
The upper mill was called a fulling mill, and the 
inlay was very near the roadside just south of the 
house now occupied by Benjamin Adams and upon 
the east side of the roatl where the stream now 
crosses the highway to run to his sawmill. Cap- 
tain Cargill's other mill was called a cornmill or 
gristmill and was continued until the present gen- 
eration, having been purchased by John MacMur- 
piiv pre\ious to 1735, and remaining in the familv 
for five generations. 

The second homestead, joining Captain David 
Cargill's, was laid out or offered to several persons 
besides Samuel Houston, who do not appear to 
have cared much for it. It was once laid out to 
Col. Wainwright, as ma\ be seen by a reference to 
the ne.xt allotment following. This homestead 
can easilv be identified as the farm upon which 
Robert Clark now lives. 

Note. — "At a general town meeting lul\' 2, 1720, the town 
then voted that Hugh Montgomery shall be written unto to see 
whether he will come to this town and make a [jresent settlement 
u]ion the one half of Capt. Wainwrighl's lot, the said Capt. 
Wainwright to keep the other half himself " June 19.1721, Hugh 
Montgomery refusing to settle on the terms offered, the half lot 
was put to auction and was sold to William Oilmore and James 
Rogeis. and Samuel Moore advanced 10 shillings earnest money 
for them. May 21, 1722, the half lot granted to Col. Wainwright 
for good reasons was given to I )avid Craig. 

Thi- ne.xt farm abutting handsomely upon 
Heaver pond was laid out to tlu' representative of 
the Crown, 



The following agreement will explain the laving 
out of some of these lots. It was made at the time 
when the people of Nutfield had secured a deed of 
the land, on which they had settled, from Col. John 
Wheelwright of Wells, Me. : 

These presents witnesseth that the Rev. James McGregor 
and .Samuel Graves do in the name of the people of Nutfield and 
by virtue of being a committee from them agree that the Honor- 
able Governor John Wentworth of Portsmouth and Col. Wheel- 
wright of Wells and their heirs forever .should have and possess 
two lots with them in Nutfield, lying to the northward of and 
butting upon Beaver pond, to wit : Lt.-Gov. Wentworth 
to have the thinl and Col, \Vheelwright the fourth in order 
u]K)n that range, together with what second divisions will fall to 
the said lots througliout the said town, and each of these gentle- 
men and their heirs to have besides the said lots five huntlred 
acres aiiiece forever laid out in farms where they shall think fit 
in the said town. 

Recorded this 9th day of January, 1720. 

Per John Goffe, 

Town Clerk. 

As a single description of these homestead lots 
will suffice to give an idea of all of them, a further 
quotation from the Proprietors' Book is here given : 

Nutfield, October 12, 1720. Laid out to the Honorable 
Lieutenant Governor Wentworth a lot of land in Nutfield con- 
taining si.xty acres, by order of the committee of said town, 
bounded as foUoweth : beginning at a small oak tree standing 
near Beaver pond, thence running a due northeast line three 
hundred and twenty rods and bounding upon Captain Wain- 
wright's lot unto a stake, from thence running a northwest line 
thirty rods and bounding upon Andrew Spalding's lot unto a 
white oak tree marked, from thence running a southwest line 
three hundred and twenty rods and bounding upon Col. Wheel- 
wright's lot unto a pine tree marked, near the pond, from thence 
running as the ])ond runs to the bounds first mentioned, together 
with an interest in the common or undivided lands within the 
said townshij) equal to other lots in said town. — James McKcen, 
James Gregg, Rol)ert Wear. Samuel Graves, John Morrison, 
David Cargill, John Gotfe. 

Recorded this 12th day of October, 1720. 

Per John Goffe, 
Town Cldi; 

The governors of the various i)r()\inces in 
New England were generally of good birth and 
highlv respected bv the colonies. The |)olic\' oi 
Great Britain for se\eral hundred vears has been 
generallv pacific, antl silentlv a conquest of nations 
is being accomplished without the assistance of 
armies. The resolution passed bv the town of 
Nutfield, in meeting assembled in 17 19, is not 
without interest : 



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The peojile of Nutfiekl do acknowledge with gratitude the 
obligation they are under to the above mentioned gentlemen, 
particularly to the Honorable Col. John Wentworth, Esq., Lieu- 
tenant-Governor of New Hampshire. They remember with 
pleasure that his Honor, on all occasions, shewed a great deal of 
civility and real kindness to them, being strangers in the coun- 
try, and cherished small beginnings of their settlement and 
defended them from the encroachment and violence of such as 
upon unjust ground would disturb their settlement and always 



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SECOND FRAMED HOUSE IN NUTf-IELD. 

gave them a favorable ear and easy access to the government 
and procured justice for them, and established order and pro- 
moted peace and good agreement amongst them and reasonable 
advice, both with respect to the purity and liberty of the Gospel 
and the management of their secular affairs, and jnit arms and 
ammunition into their hands to defend them from the fears and 
dangers of the Indians, and contributed liberally by his example 
and experience to the building of a house for the worshi]) of 
God : so that under God we owe him as the patron and guardian 
of our settlement, and erect this monument of gratitude to the 
name and family of A\'entworth to be had in the greatest venera- 
tion by the present generation and latest posterity. 

It appears from contemporary evidence that 
there was scarcely a resident of the English Ransje 
in 1719 who was not titled and servins: the crovern- 
ment in some capacity. Their descendants of the 
next generation were conspicuous leaders in the 
French and Indian wars. Very familiar are the 
names of Colonel Thornton, Colonel Barr, Sir 
James Leslie, Captain Blair, Ensign Blair, Captain 
Cargill, Colonel Wainwright, Colonel Wheel- 
wright, and Lieutenant Goffe. 

In connection with the locating- of some whose 
names are not on the map, it may be added that 



between the English Range and Chester line were 
a few farms not drawn or outlined ; the farm of 
James Calderwood, between the upper end and the 
line, at the narrowest place, opposite the lot of 
John Barr, being a distance of forty rods, and the 
farm next on the southeast of James Calderwood 
was laid out to Joshua Thornton and John Mac- 
Murphy in consideration of their appointment as 
administrators to the estate of James Hunter of 
Boston. Continuing along the line, the highway 
passed through Samuel Penhallow's lot and then 
through the lots of Samuel Graves, John Goffe, 
Jr., Stephen Pierce, and Andrew Spalding to the 
fulling mill. 

For the clearer apprehension of the neigh- 
borly condition of the original settlers in respect 
to their houses, one needs only to know that they 
tlwelt along the present Range road and in the 
order given, that road having been laid out very 
early. The limits of the Range are George W. 
Dickey's lot at the upper end and Benjamin 
Adams's at the lower end. George W. Dickey 
t)wns the lots of John Shields, James Rogers, 
James Moore, and John Blair. George I. Choate 
lately occupied the James Blair place. John F. 
Baker is on the John Anderson lot, James Sefton 
on the James Leslie lot. The Cheever heirs oc- 
cupy the two lots of James Lindsay and Matthew 
Clark. Nat Palmer was owner of the John Crom- 
bie lot. A. J. Seavey occupies the lot of Samuel 
Graves. The Chase heirs are on the original 
John Goffe lot, and the next lot east of Chester 
road is easily identified. To show this identifica- 
tion more conclusively, the record of the road mav 
be consulted : 

Nutfield, February 13. 1720. A by-way laid out from John 
Shield's, from thence running about southerly across the lots until 
it come to the southwest corner of Joseph Kidder's fence, from 
thence running west and southerly along by Joseph Simond's 
house and continuing as the path now goes until it comes to 
John Senter's house, continuing southerly until it goes up a small 
hill, and then turning more easterly towards Beaver brook on 
the east side of the great hill until it comes to the mill bridge 
into the road leading to Mr. Gregg's. 

Clough is on the Simonds place. Hill owns 
the Keyes place, and Morrill is on the Robie lot. 
Palmer comes next on John Senter's lot, Jonathan 
Clement lately on the Robert McKeen lot, and 



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63 



Walter S. Clement has the lot laid (Hit to Samuel, 
Jolm, and Janet McKeen. 

On the road that led up between John Goffe's 
and Joseph Kidder's lots are now found the resi- 
dences of the Chases, Horace A. Hill, C. W. True, 
S. P. Clark, O. S. Bartlett, and Mr. Towle. 

Returning;: to the southwest corner of Joseph 
Kidder's fence, and continuing the recoril of the 
same date as the last : " ^V by-waA^ laid out from 
the southwest corner of Joseph Kidder's fence, 
from thence running;; about southeast along bv 
Beaver pond until it come to the southerlv side of 
Governor Wentworth's lot, then turnino- more 
easterlv by marked trees to Samuel Houston's, and 
so over Beaver brook by Capt. Cargill's gristmill, 
then running more southerly by marked trees until 
it come to John MacMurphy's lot and thence run- 
ning up between the said John MacMurphv and 
Robert Bovce, the road being equally divided be- 
tween the two until it come to the said Bovce's 
house." This road led to the meeting-house and 
is easilv followed. It is evident from the record 
that Captain Cargill had a gristmill at the upper 
end of Beaver pond before Feb. 13, 1720. 

In following the record the location of several 
houses is delinitelv fixed, and these incidental allu- 
sions to the positionsof houses are the onlv reliable 
evidences of the occupation of the lands at the 
time, for traditions are vague and contradictory, 
and almost anv man who has lived on a farm for 
the greater part of his life has his mind lilled with 
legends of old settlers, and cellars, and springs, and 
mvthical personages of various kinds, and will 
point out the landmarks to in(|uirers much the 
same as the xA-rabs are said to point out tlie springs 
and tombs and marvellous foot])rints of the 
patriarchs. 

Considering tlie dates assignetl to the allot- 
ments of land in this town, the records of cer- 
tain births mav be of particular interest. It is 
not necessarv to infer from these records that 
these births actuallv occurred in Nutfield, although 
recorded in the regular manner and form : 
"John Croffe was born March 16th, 1700. Han- 
nah Goffe was born Februarv 4lh, 1705. Sarah 
Goffe was born August 19th, 1709. Marv GolTe 
was born April i2lh, 171 i." The most reason- 
able mterence to be drawn from the record is 



that John Goffe, being the first clerk officially 
connected with the historv of this town, placed 
these births on record. But what can be alleged 
as the cause of the following that antedates the 
time of settlement, and is even more precise and 
formal ? " William Smith, son of James Smith 
and Jean his wife, was born February 9th, 1715. 
Rachel Smith, daughter of James Smith and Jean 
his wife, was born April 19th, 1718." This is a 
name that does not occur in the schedule and 
there was no record of an\- land being allowed 
to any of his famil)- in the Projjrietors' Book, 
but in the laying out of some land to John Bell, 
it is incidentally discovered that the adjoining lot 
has been occupied by James Smith. " Sarah 
Graves, daughter of Sanuiel Graves and Sarah 
his wife, was born Dec. 17th. 1709. Samuel 
Graves, son of Samuel Graves and Sarah his 
wife, was born April i6th, 1711. James Graves, 
son of Samuel Graves and Sarah his wife, was 
born April jjnd, 1714. Anna Graves, daughter 
of Samuel Graves and Sarah his wife, was born 
July 26th, 1716." There are other records of 
births occurring earlier than the organized settle- 
ment of the colony in Nutiield, but these fuUv 
establish the surpassing interest attaching to the 
publishing of the Records of Londonderrv. 




BEAVER POND, OR TSIEN'NETO LAKE, DERRV. 



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SILAS G. CLIFFORD, the son of BLMijamin S. of the first store at the Depot. Jan. i, 1889, Mr. 
and Mary J. (Shaw) CHfford, was born Now Clifford received the appointment of postmaster 
14, 1862, in Eppinu:, N. H. He attended the com- and entered upon his duties, severino- his relations 



mon schools and at the ap;e of nineteen entered 
the office of B. W. Hcjyt's shoe sht)p in Eppinsj, 
sjoinii' in June, 1884, to Derrv and lindin<i' employ- 
ment in Col. W. S. 
Pillsbury's shoe fac- 
tory. In a short time 
some change of em- 
ployment became 
necessary, a n d h e 
made an entiage- 
ment with Rollins 
(Sl Smith, then in the 
grocery business. In 
1883 Mr. Clifford 
purchased an inter- 
est in the li r m 
occupying the store 




POSTOFFICE, DKRRY DEPOT. 



with the aboye mentioned firm. The jiublic has 
been thoroughly satisfied with the cordial and 
cheerful attention bestowed upon it in the deliyery 

of mail and other ser- 
^^^„ . vices of the post- 
office. The amount 
(if business trans- 
acted at the Depot 
postoffice has long 
since surpassed the 
combined receipts 
nnl disbursements of 
all the other offices 
in town, although 
so young in point 
of history. Mr. Clif- 
appointment in the 



now owned liy E. N. ford, previous to his 

lecoming R. W. Pillsbury postoffice, acted three years in the capacity of 



Whitney, the firm name 

tSt Co. This was a store of general merchandise, deputy sheriff under the late J. Horst Kent. He 

is widely connect- 




ed with the so- 
cial interests of 
the community 
by his member- 
ship and associa- 
tions in the St. 
Mark's L<jdge of 
Masons, the In- 
dependent order 
of Odd lu'liows. 
and the Knights 
of Pythias. He 
is a member of 
Trinit\' Comman- 
dery, Manches- 
ter, and of Aleppo 
Temple, Boston. 





.MISS ETHEL E. EOVD, POSTAL CLERK. 



O' 



SILAS G. CLIFf'ORD. 

including nearly every article in consumption. 
Mr. Pillsbury soon tlisposed of his interest in the 
store tt) Mr. Whitnc\-, and Mr. Clifford alone 
remained with the latter at the old stand, the site 



LD ZEKIEL, the last descendant of one o 
Ihe few friendlv Indian families who here 
and there remained in the Merrimack valley after 
the final retreat of their race to the Canadian bor- 
der, upon the Do\er massacre in 1689, liyed for 
many \ears alone in his cabin, which stood on land 
originally settled by James Wilson, who came from 



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U/L/./Crs BOOK OF Nl'TFJRLD. 65 

Lnnilondrrrv, Irchnul, S(.(,n al'tcT till' anixal of ihc offcri'd hinisclf as his attoriK-y. Mr. MacGreoror 
lirst Cdlonw Zc'kicl's cabin was in a inradciw, and was not \nTSrd in llic Inrnis and technicalities of 
a canal connected it with a ])rett\- siun-t of water, I'l"^' I'lw, and was totally iiiuorant of criminal jiro- 
ahoiit three hundred feet distant, so t hat hi' could ei'dure, l.ut he managed Mitchell's defence with 
l)a(ldle his canoe from what is still known as ,Ui'<-'at al)ilit\- and inuvnuity, and sujjported it with 
Zekiel's pond to his cahin door. Tntil within a poweiful ar<i-umcnt. The exddence, howe\-er, ap- 
few years the canal was still diml\- traceahle, and the peared to he against the defendant, and he was 
meadow in cultivation disclosed such a multitude convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of one thou- 
of Indian relics as to make the tradition credible sand pounds, and costs. Unable to pay the fine, 
that it had once been an Indian camping ground, li'' was kept in prison until, 1>\- the exertions of 
and that it was here where Hannah Dustin, with Mr. MacGregor, he was released on bail. His 
her captors, rested the first night after the Ha- l«>ncl was renewed fr(un time to time, until at 
verhill massacre in 1697. The Wilson farm was IcMigth his innocence was fullv established by the 
sold to [oseph 1^-octor, grandfather of .\le.\is Froc- finding of new evidence, and iu' was honorably ac- 
tor, in 1 789. quitted. 



RKV. JESSE GIBSON McMURPHV was 
born .\pril 8. 184s, in Derrv, N. H., on the 



I) 
ih 



/^^^RIME was not bv an\' means unknown in the 

^-^ earlv and simpler times of the colonv. There *^ born .\prd 8. 1845 

were, however, not so manv laws, and conse(|uentlv l"'^'"! wliere five generations of the same surname 

not so much law-breaking, as in modern days, and l^^^ve lived. He labored on the farm in summer 

justice seems occasionally to have miscarried in its ^I'^tl attended Pinkertt)n Academv in winter until 

old familiar wav. About 1750, Jotham Odiorne, a 'ift*^''' f'"' college. Before and during his course in 

wealthv resident of Portsmouth, received two Hanover he taught one term in each of ^w^ vears 

anonvmous letters, threatening his life and the to assist in bearing the expenses of an education, 

urning of his property unless the sum of five hun- He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1868. The 

ed pounds should be left "at the westerlv end of following year found him in the state of Wisconsin 

the long bridge, which is between Kingston and attached to a bodv of engineers with headtpiarters 

Chester," on a certain night. History records that ^^t Milwaukee, acting under appointment, as United 

the money was deposited there — though why this States foreman on harbor improxements along the 

formalitv was necessary is not very clear — and a shores of Lake Michigan. 

guard stationed close at hand to arrest the black- In the spring of 1870 he returned to New- 
mailer. Strange coinciilences have fretpientlv Hampshire on a visit and was married to Miss 
happened, especialh- in connection with criminal Marv L. James, April 23 of that year, bv Rev. 
matters, and this time it happened that Captain William House of Londonderry. Miss James was 
Jiihn Mitchell, a reputable citizen of Londonderry, ^i" estimable lady of refinement and culture', who, 
came along and alighted from his horse near the I'v licr own industr\-, had obtained a thorough 
spot where the monev had been iilaced. He was. Normal School training at Salem, Mass. She was 
of course, immediatelv arrested, and committed to the daughter of Cajit. Joseph Warren and Harriet 
jail at Portsmouth to await trial. He protested Neely (Hoyt) James of Deerfield, N. H. 
his innocence, but public sentiment seems to have Mr. and Mrs. McMurphy went again to Wis- 
been very generally against him, and so strong eonsin, where both fell undir tht' inlluence of the 
was the belief in his guilt that he found it difficult Episcopal Church and united in membership by 
to secure a lawyer to undertake his defence. Rev. confirmation. Mrs. McMurphy continued teach- 
Uavid MacGregor. however, pastor of the West ing and Mr. McMuri)hv began to study for Holy 
parish, and third son of Rev. James MacGregor, Orders at Nashotah Tln'ological Seminarv, l)ecame 
was convinced of Captain Mitchell's innocence, a candidate May 8, 1871, graduated in 1873, was 
and although the accused was not a mi'mber of his ordained to the diaconate in Milwaukee June 8, 
church, and not even friendly to him, the preacher 1873, by the Rt. Rev. William E. Armitage, and 



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,-.§ ^ve. 



Ke ""V- ''\ur:^h\' Home S^lioo! Jmd [vesidence 



Miss Alice Stevens, 

Kindergarten. 

Miss S. M. Morrison, 

Latin. Greek and German 

Prof, Bruno Soder, 

OF Berlitz School, 
German. 

Mrs. M. L. McMurphy, 

Principal, 
Literature and Art. 



% 



ate 



Haclne. 



5ei7 



ooi 



Mrs. I. M. Black. 

Primary and Intermediate. 

Miss Alice Abbott, 

English and Mathematics. 

Prof. Nicholas C. Bische. 

OF Berlitz School, 

French. 

Rev. J. G. McMurphy, 
, Rector. 



(JUiseonsin. 



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67 



admitted to the priesthood May 31, 1874, in 
the same city and diocese, by act of the Rt. Rev. 
Henry J. Whitehouse. 

For the next three years Mr. McMurphy was 
an instructor in Racine Colleov and pastor oi Im- 
manuel Church in Racine, Wis. He has remained 
a resident of that city ever since, or more than 
twenty years. The McMurphy Home School was 
opened in 1S77 and has been maintained seventeen 
years (1CS94), during- which period many young 
ladies have been prepared for college, and in east- 
ern schools — Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, and in the 
University of Chicago — have done credit to their 
former instructors. Other graduates have become 
worthy citizens and married and their children have 
grown up to enter the same school. 




REV. JESSE G. MCMURPHY. 

Mr. McMurphy has found time to translate 
in metric stanzas many choice selections from the 
German, French, Italian, and Spanish authors, 
some of which have appeared in papers and maga- 
zines, and lie has not neglected the ancient lan- 
guages. A more laborit)us and protracted under- 
taking has been the collection of genealogical 
tables of his own and kindred families from every 
state, and records of the settlement and allotment 



of homesteads and the progressive development 
in this, his native town. 

He is a conservative churchman in practice, 
but has been a member of the Confraternity of the 
Blessed Sacrament for twenty-two years, allying 
him strongly with the restoration movement in 
England and the English colonies, and he also 
daily unites with the Society for the Promotion of 
Christian Unity in the works of that order. 




MRS. J. r,. MCMURPHY AND TWO CHILDREN. 

In 1875, Mr. McMurphy was elected a mem- 
ber of the Wisconsin Academy of ^Vrts and Sciences 
and lectured before the assembly. He is corre- 
sponding memtier of the New Hampshire State 
Historical Societ\', iiaving been elected June 13, 
1894. 

Three chiUhen were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
McMurphy : (i) Sarah Russell, b. Sept. 29, 1871, 
graduated at the McMurphy Home School 1890, 
from the New England Conservatory of Music at 
Boston, in 1892, and now teaching her third year 
in St. Mary's Institute, Dallas, Texas. (2) Alex- 
ander James, b. Aug. 29, 1875, d. y. (3) Jerome C, 
b. April 19, 1 88 1, now at Racine College, Wis. 

IWl OSCULAR CHRISTIANITY is not of re- 
^ * * cent origin. Rev. James MacGregor was a 
muscular Christian, as he proved upon more than 
one occasion. In the summer after the arrival of 
the first settlers at Nuttield a large party of men 
came up from Massachusetts, as hatl been their 
custom for several years previous, to mow the grass 
on the fine natural meadows. Their coming was 
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WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



wiHild refrain from their purpose after being; told 
that the Nuffield settlers had a claim to the land 
and grass. They laughed to scorn the claims of 
the settlers, however, and proceeded to carry out 
their intention. Then Mr. MacGregor, at the head 
of his parishioners, went out and ordered them off 
the ground. This angered the leader of the party, 
who stepped up to the minister and, shaking his 
fist in his face, exclaimed in a threatening voice, 
alluding to his clerical attire, "Nothing saves you, 
sir, hut vour black coat." " Well, it shan't save 
yoiL, sir," retorted Mr. MacGregor, and throwing off 
his coat, was about to smite him hi]) and thigh, 
when the boasting leader, with his j^arty, beat a 
hasty retreat. 



T^HE FIRST BIRTH IN NUTFIELD was 

•I that of Jonathan Morrison, son of John and 
Margaret Morrison, who was born Sept. 8, 
I 719, within less than six months after the settle- 
ment of tlie colonv. The second child born was 
James McKeen, Jr. Their i)irths were not (ar 
apart, and there had lieen much anxious specula- 
tion which mother's son should obtain the prize of 
a farm, or lot of land, which was to be assigned to 
the first-born son of Nutfield. Jonathan Morrison, 
the winner of the prize, became celebrated as a 
mechanic, being the first, and for a considerable time 
the only one in Peterboro, where his father settled. 
He was not a jack at all trades, but was a really 
skilfid millwriglit, stonecutter, blacksmith, carpen- 
ter, house-joiner, and gunmaker. Highly gifted, 
quick and very ingenious, he was also g^enerous in 
the extreme. He remo\'ed from Peterboro to 
Vermont, and died about the year 1778. The rec- 
ords do not state whether he ever availed himself 
of the prize which he won by his promptness in 
arriving at the Nutfield colony. 



J 



AMES H. CROMBIE, M. D., the son of 
James Crombie, M. D., was born in Temple 
Sept. 2, 1813. His father removed to Francestown 
in 1820 and continued in the practice of medicine 
there for many years. After receiving a thorough 
preparatory education, the son began the study of 
medicine at Woodstock, Vt., anil continued his 
studies at Boston and at Keene. His instructor 
at the latter place was Dr. Twitchel, (jne of the 
eminent surgeons of his time. Graduating from 



Dartmouth Medical College in 1837, Dr. Crombie 
immediately began active practice with his father 
in Francestown. He soon attained a wide rejnita- 
tion for skill in surgery, manv of his more impor- 
tant cases being reported in the medical journals. 
In 1850 he removed t(j Derrv, where he soon built 
up an extensive practice. He had alwavs taken 
great interest in militar\' matters, having been for 
years surgeon of the old corps of Amoskeag Vet- 
erans, and immediatelv after the l)attle of Peters- 




JAMES H. CROMBIE, M. D. 

burg he entered the army as contract surgeon, 
serving in that capacity for several months. Upon 
returning to Derry he resumed the practice of his 
profession and continued it until his death, which 
occurred June 30, 1884, from hypertrophy of the 
heart. He left a widow, but no children. His 
fellow-members in George E. Upton post, G. A. R., 
were his faithful attendants during the last days of 
his distressing illness. Dr. Crombie was widely 
known and highly respected for his skill as a phy- 
sician and his personal (jualities. 



BALLOu- McGregor, 



EDWARD BALLOl', the son of Jonathan and Feb. 6, 1841. nianied Geora:e A. Seavc}' of Wind- 
Janet (McGregor) Ballon, was born in Deer- ham, whose slcetch is given elsewhere ; (9) Nanev 
field, Now 5, 1799, and was employed in his father's R., born May 21, 1S43, married to Caleb Clark of 
store until he came to Londonderry and settled at Windham, Sept. 6, 1865, by Rev. L. S. Parker of 

Derry, and had three children : Lilly, died young ; 
Edward B., born 1872 ; Mary Louise, born 1874, a 
popular teacher in Windham; (10) Samuel E., born 
Aug. 29, 1845, unmarried; (11) E.Louisa, born 
June 25, 1848, took care of her mother's aunt in 
Boston many years and inherited her fortune, mar- 
ried Thomas Chapman, and with her husband lives 
in Windham ; (12) Edwin L. Parker, born April 25, 
1851, married Mrs. Sarah Josephine Clay Johnson 
and lives on the John Bell place at the upper end 
of the Aiken Range in Derrv. 

Edward Ballon, the father, was a justice of the 
peace, served as selectman in Derry several years, 
was representative in the legislature two years, and 
died Sept. 19, 1863. James MacGregor Ballon is 
living (1895). 




EDWARD BALLOU. 

the u])i)er end of the Aikens Range, where the 
familv has since lived. Nov. 13, 1823, he married 
Isabella D. MacGregor, daughter of James and 
Rosanna (.\iken) MacGregor, who lived on the 
Major John Pinkerton place, latelv occupied bv 
Alexander MacGregor, and now in the possession 
of Deacon T. T. Moore. This marriage was sol- 
emnized bv Rev. Daniel Dana of Londonderrv, and 
twelve children blessed the union : (i) (ieorge W., 
born Jan. 19, 1825, who was never married and 
carries on the farm ; (2) Samuel A., born March 3, 
1827, died Sept. 16, 1843 ; (3) Jennette McG., l»orn 
April 19, 1829; (4) Rosanna A., born March 8, 
1 83 1, died Feb. 20, 1833 ; (5) Nancy McG., born 
Aug. 31, 1833, died I-^eb. 10, 1837 ; (6) Sarah W^., 
born Dec. 21, 1833, a school teacher, married to 
William S. Baker of Portsnuiuth Sept. 14, 1858, by 




ISABELLA D. (MACGREGOR) HALLOU. 



The father of Mrs. Ballon was born in Lon- 



Rev. E. N. Hidden of Derrv; no children; she donderrv March 28, 1777, and married Rosanna 
died Sept. 11, 1865 ; (7) Isabella McD., born Sept. .\iken of Chester, Dec. 22. 1803. She was born 



26, 1838, died July 



•''^SS ' {'^) Mary B., born March 2, 1784, the daughter of Samuel and Isa- 

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Londondcrrv, who had previously kept a store in 
Deertk'ld ; the\- had a son, Thomas, who became a 
jthysician and settled in Kinoston. (6) Robert, 
who married Folly Hovens of Rhode Island and 
lived there some years, until the death of John 
MacGregor, when he returned to Londonderry and 



bella (McDole) Aiken. The marriage was per- 
formed bv Rev. Mr. Ct)lby of Chester, now a part 
of Auburn. Their children were : (i) Agnes, born 
Oct. lo, 1804, died July 15, iSii ; (2) Isabella D., 
married Edward Ballou ; (3) Alexander, born 
Nov. 6, 1809, married Sarah Wyse ; (4) Lewis A., 
born Aug. 12, 181 2, married a Whittier and v\u- 
gusta Blodgett ; (5) Eliza Jane, born Julv 14, 1820 ; 
(6) John A., born Oct. 14, 1822. 

After the death of Mr. MacGregor the widow 
married Dearborn Whittier of Hooksett, Jan. 3, 
1827. She died Nov. 23, 1867; he was killed by 
the cars at Wilson's Crossing, Jan. 26, 1850. Mrs. 
Ballou had her first child in her arms when she 
shook hands with Lafavette at East Derrv in 1824. 

James MacGregor, the second of the name in 
Londonderry, and father of James 3rtl, married 
xA-gnes Cochran. Their children were : (i) Jennet, 
who married Jonathan Ballou of Deerfield and had 
a familv of children ; (2) Marv .\nn, who ne\er 
married ; (3) Rev. David, of whom a ])ortrail is 
herewith given ; he graduated at Dartmouth, 
studied theologv, became a Presbvterian clergvman 
and was the first settled ))astor of the societv in 
Bedford. He married Mary Butterfield of Hano- 
ver, and after her death he married Marv Orr of 

REV. DAVm MACGREGOR. 

settled at the Upper \'illage. He afterward bought 
the farm where Reed P. Clark latelv lived in Lon- 
dondcrrv, and lived there, raising a large family of 
children, and some of the descendants remain there 
still. (7) Betsey, never married. (8) PoUv, mar- 
rietl Jonathan Emerson, lived on the Pinkerton 
[ilace on the turnpike, and hatl one son. (q) James. 
of whom an account is given elsewhere. 

Mrs. Ballou remembers this elopement storv 
of the MacGregors : Rev. James MacGregor, 
lirst pastor of the church in Lontl()n(lerr\-, had died 

t ^^'^^^Ij^^tfLl^^!*' '^'^^' '^'^ ^'"^' ^^*-'\'- t)aviil, was then pastor of the 

^. ■ ^jEi- -' W "'^^ East Parish church. Alexander, another son, lived 

on some of the MacGregor lands where the Mor- 

Bedford ; she died, and his thirtl wife was Rebecca risons recently lived, and where the old MacGregor 

Merrill of Londonderrv. He left children. (4) house, the first framed house in Londonderrv, was 

Alexander, who married Pt)llv Pinkertt>n and lived still standing a few vears ago. James, another 

in Londonderry, and he had one son, John P., brother, had a pew in the meeting-house. Susan, 

adopted by Major John Pinkerton. (5) Susan, a daughter of Alexander MacGregor, fell in love 

who married Thomas Bassett, a storekeeper in with one Burnside, who kept a store in the East 





Willi: }''s hook <>/■' /vr//- //■:/./>. 



7t 



Villairc and was not liked l)v llu- stricter Prcsliy- I>m nsidc, liowcvcr, did not Iicsitatc a moment, and 

lerians, csi)eciall\ l)\ llie Mac(lre<rors. Susan's toiichin;^; the door iinjil ly wit li his hand, In: vaulted 

parents opposed the intimacy Ix'tween her \\\\i\ over it and sat down Ixside his wife, to the amaze- 

I5urnside, lull their mutual aCfeelion lipeued, and ni<iil of I he conj^retiation and t he morlilication of 

faiiin<r to secure the consent of her lather and the JVlacC irei^ors. Sueii audacity was unbearalih', 

mother, Susan determined to elope. The arran,u;e- and James MacOrejjror seized the younjr man hy 

ments were (|uietly made by procurint;; a license the shoulders and would have pitched him out of 

from the Ciovernor, and the time was set. Susan the |)ew hut loi the tinudy remonstrance of the 

picpared her wardrobe, tied it in a bundle, and on scandalized pastor. Stcjppint^ in the midst of his 

the day of the weddint^ placed it l)ehind tht: door sermon, Rev. l)avi<l Mc(lren:or called out: 

that opened into the stairway in the frtjnt hall. " brother James, do not (list urb the house of (iod ! " 

Burnside <ralhered his friends on horseback, and This restored order, and the youn^ couple remained 



haltiiiij them a 
few steps from 
the house, rode 
up to the door 
in yreat style. 
Susan caught 
up her bundle 
from behind 
the hall door, 
and belore an\' 
of the famil\' 
knew w hal was 
i.^oiny' on, hail 
mounted 1 h e 
horse behind 
her lo\'er, and 
the i)arty had 
started for a 
iniinster. Noth- 
in<r was done to 




riKSI- KkAMI'.l) lloeSK in NiriFIKl.l). 



together. Ikit 
the MacC.re- 
yors did not 
visit Susan un- 
lil alter the 
hirl li of h e r 
Inst child, when 
it waseonimon- 
Iv repoi ted I h;il 
she was in deli- 
cate heall h and 
mi,L(hl mil li\c 
lontj. 1 h e n 
thev relented, 
and were in a 
measure recon- 
I iled tothemar- 
riai.,M-. it is said 
that the issue 
of this marriage 



interfere with the wedding, and Mr. and Mrs. Burn- became renowned in the succeedinggenerations and 

side settled down to housekeeping, to the great in- one of the sons was a general in the Revolutionary 

dignation of ihe MacGregors, who refused to visit war. This Susan MacCxregor and James, 2nd, were 

them. Mrs. l>uinside, however, sought to o\'er- I he (nilv children of Alexander, I he son of t he l\ev. 

come their scru])les by taking her husband to James, Insi pastor of I his town. Alexander married 

church the following Sundav. With <rreal assui- and s<t I IcI in Rhode Island, and died after the birth 

ance she marched up the aisle a little late, followed of I hesc t\\ cm liildreii. i lis widow married an y\llen 

b\' her huslinnd, and stopped in Iron! of liei iim le and icinaineii in Rhode Ishmd, bill the I wo chil- 

James Mac(iregor's pew. lie inslanth opened dren wei c broiight to Londonderry and raised in 

the jx'W door and let her in, but seeing lUnnside ihefainih of Janu'S MacCiicgor, who figures as 

he sudd(mlv closed the door and shut him out. the uncle in I his storv. 




CajN U.SED HY KEV. JAMKS MAC<a<K<;iil<, 



HON. GEORGE C. HAZELTON. 



HON. GEORGE C. HAZELTON, of Wash- 
in<jton, D. C, was born in Chester, at the 
old homestead on Walnut hill, being one of six 
children, four brothers and two sisters. His father, 
William Hazelton, was of English, and his mother, 
whose maiden name was Mercy J. Cochrane, of 
Scotch descent. John Cochrane, his maternal 
grandfather, spoke the vernacular dialect of Scot- 
land and was quite familiar with the history and 
literature of that country, being especially fond of 
Scott and Burns, many of whose poems, it is said, 
he could recite from memory. From their mother 
the children largely derived their love of learning 
and the ambition to acquire it. Their schooldays 
fell within the latter part of the first half of the 
nineteenth century, a period when the district 
school furnished very meagre educational facilities, 
and when those who would avail themselves of 
greater advantages had to resort either to private 
tutorage or to the academv. Under such circum- 
stances Rockingham county was especiallv for- 
tunate in the opportune establishment of two great 
institutions of learning, Phillips Academy at Exeter 
and Pinkerton at Deny. The latter, not less than 
the former, appeared at the right time and was 
located in a community from which it has com- 
manded a liberal patronage, and to which it has 
always been an inspiration and a great force in 
the development of the cause of education. The 
district school advanced but little beyond the rudi- 
ments of the common English branches ; the 
academv, well organized, with ample curriculum, 
was competent to (jualify the student for the busi- 
ness pursuits of life, to educate him in the higher 
English branches, and in the classics for admission 
to any college. It was distinguished for its train- 
ing and discipline in the art of composition, of 
public declamation, and especially for the Ivceum, 
or forum of debate, which it alwavs maintained — 
all of which gave culture, development, and 
strength to the student's mental powers and laid 
the foundation for the discharge of jniblic duties 
in after life of the highest value and consideration. 
Mr. Hazelton began his course of studv at 
Pinkerton Academy in 1849, leaving the institution 
in 1855 to enter Union College, New York, at the 



beginning of the sophomore year. Sometimes he 
was engaged during this period in teaching a dis- 
trict school in the winter, and he spent one year of 
the time, under Professor Henshaw, in the study 
of the classics at Dummer Academy in Massachu- 
setts. Chester, of all the surrounding towns, was 
at that time the most generous patron of Pinkerton 
Academv. Notable among others who prepared 
there for their college course were Charles, the son 
of Hon. John Bell, and George, John, Louis, and 
Charles, sons of Senator Bell ; also the sons of Dr. 
Kittridge, the three Hazelton brothers — Gerry 
Whiting, George C, the subject of this sketch, and 
John Franklin, — M. W. Tewsburv, Franklin 
Greenleaf, Tiniothv Hazelton and others. To 
these the academy was accessible, and they were 
accustomed to return to their homes over Sundav, 
which somewhat lessened the expense of attend- 
ance upon the academv, a matter of careful con- 
sideration in those economical da\-s. During this 
period, following Mr. Hildreth, the pioneer princi- 
pal, Emery, Parker, Row, Humphrev, Glassv, Po- 
land. Professor Henshaw, and John W. Rav offi- 
ciated as teachers of the academv. Lhider their 
instruction it took high rank, but especiallv so 
under the guidance of Professor Henshaw, who 
possessed rare skill and ability as a teacher of the 
classics and of higher mathematics in qualifying 
students for admission to colleges and universities. 
He was called from his academic chair of useful- 
ness here to take charge of Dummer Academy, 
and thence became one of the leading professors 
in Rutgers College, New Jersey, where, after a 
career of distinguished service in the cause of edu- 
cation, he died. 

Among the contemporaries of Mr. Hazelton 
at the academv were the Folsom brothers, the 
Brickett brothers, Paul ant! George, Aiken, Ben 
W'arner, whose untimely death was a public calam- 
itv, W^illace W. Poore, with whom Mr. Hazel- 
ton has ever since maintained intimate friendly 
relations, J. G. W()odl)ur\', nephew of Judge Levi 
Woodburv of national fame, Goodwin of the Craw- 
ford House in Boston, Tewsbury, a graduate of 
Dartmouth and one of the leading teachers of 
Massachusetts at the time of his death, the Chases 



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of Derry, Roberts of Massachusetts, and, in 1855, 
while under tiie instruetion of John W. Ray, Har- 
riet Prescott Spofford, who has attained ])rumi- 
nence in American literature, and many others. 

Mr. Hazelton earlv hesjan to participate in the 
debates in the JNceuin, antl with \Voodlun'\", Poore, 
Roberts, and others, is still remembered as one of 
its leading spirits. Tie often recurs to this expe- 
rience as among the most valuable of his educa- 
tional ad\antages, to which his success in his 
profession and in pubhe life is largeh- in(lei)ted. 

Few of the s(ins ot Pinkerton ^Vcademy have 
been more devotetl to their alma mater than he. 
He returned to take part in the dedication'of the 
new building, erected upon the foundation of the 
old, around which manv of his tenderest memories 
clustered, and was at that time elected president of 
the Alumni Association of the Academ\-. 

His life has been a most successful one. He 
was graduated at Union College, was admitted to 
the bar in the state of New York, practised his 
profession in Sehenectadv for a time, and in 1863 
moved to Wisconsin, to enter u|)on its practice 
there, which state was his residence until 1S84, 
when he made his permanent home in Washington. 
While a citizen of Wisctmsin, her people honored 
him with such public trusts as district attornev of 
Grant county, as state senator for four vears, and 
a^ member of the national Congress for six vears. 
Since his residence in Washington he has held the 
ofhce of attornev for the Distri:t of Columbia, 
under an appointment conferred bv President 
Harrison. Mr. Hazelton's political career has 
been so well described in the Encyclopa'dia of 
Eminent and Representative Men of Virginia and 
the District of Columbia, a volume of rare merit, 
published in 1893, that permission has been sought 
and cjbtained to reproduce herewith an extract from 
that work. It is as follows : 

Mr. Hazelton was elected to the Wisconsin state senate in 
i8j7, and wa.s chosen president pro tempore of that body. He 
was again elected to the senate in 1869. At the expiration of 
his last term in the state senate he gave five years of close and 
d.ligent attention to the ]jract;ce of law in the United States 
and state courts. Here he sooji became known as one of tlie 
leading lawyers of W.sconsin. His success as a jury lawyer was 
most marked, and soon gave him an extensive practice and a 
wide experience. If lie w;is anything he was an active and 
ardent reiiublican. Kach recurrhig canvass found him vigorously 



engaged. 'I'he result was that he was again called upon to 
represent his fellow-citizens, this time in the national legislature, 
being elected to the Forty-Fifth Congress in November, 1876. 
He entered Congress at a time when he found himself numbered 
among the republican minority, when the democratic majority 
controlled legislation, and when their sjjeaker denied the new mem- 
bers of the house a just and fair recognition uijon the floor in de- 
bate upon pending measures. But he was not thus to be repressed. 
Wherever op])ortunity offered, his readiness and ability to state 
a point with rare terseness and force soon began to command 
the attention of the house. Such was the state of affairs when 
he was renominated in 1878, and at once took the stump on the 
republican financial platform. Both greenbackers and democrats 
united to beat him, and it was only by the most persuasive 
speeches and untiring labor that he overcame the majority and 
was re-elected to the Forty-Sixth Congress. In the first session 
of this Congress he had the first opportunity to show the real 
quality of his intellect. April 24, 1879, when the majority were 
threatening the immediate repeal of the reconstruction measures, 
he delivered a speech in the house of representatives on the 
" Powers of Government," in which he not only exhibited a 
thorough knowledge of the legal and ])olitical phases of the ques- 
tion, but a boldness of thought in applying ])rinciples, that clearly 
showed that he had been a close student of our political history. 
And when the majority were attempting to impede the resump- 
tion of specie payments, at the same session, on Feb. 22. he 
spoke on the subject of the national banks and their resumption 
of specie payments. This speech, made in favor of honest 
money and national good faith, was one of his best eff"orts. It 
attracted much attention at the time and was widely published 
and commented uiion in the daily press. His efforts during 
this session ranked him among the best orators in the 
house, and in the autumn of that year he was invited to go to 
California and assist in the canvass in that state. The election 
was for members of Congress, and it was regarded as a test 
election of the coming national campaign of i88o. The repub- 
licans carried the state, and it was conceded that no man from 
outside of it contributed more to that success than Mr. Hazelton. 
He delivered an oration at the famous Arlington cemetery on 
Decoration day. May 29, 1880. This speech was also published 
in the daily press and in pamphlet form, and the Union soldiers 
all over the land spoke of it in the warmest terms. He has ever 
been their energetic and faithful friend. In 1880 he was renom- 
inated for the third time and was most triumphantly re-elected, 
his majority ranking among the highest ever given in his con- 
gressional district f(jr any man since the close of the Rebellion. 
.... In December, 1890, he was appointed attorney for the 
District of Columbia, of which office he is still the incumbent. 
He is admitted to practice in all the New York courts, the 
United States Supreme court, and the courts of Wisconsin 
and the District of Columbia. 

There is, therefore, no doubt that Mr. Hazel- 
ton, as a representative, student, graduate, and 
alumnus of Pinkerton Academy, is fairly entitled 
to the place that has been assigned to him in the 
present work. 



TITULARY LITIGATIONS. 



PRIOR to the arrival of the colony that settled 
in Nutfield, various grants of land in New 
England had been issued by the Crown covering 
the period of a century. In addition to the owner- 
ship of lands obtained by the possession of royal 
charters, as some of the settlers were particularly 
conscientious about depriving the peaceable In- 
dians of their natural heritage without reasonable 
compensation, numerous deeds were obtained from 
the Indian chiefs, so that it became extremely 
difficult to ascertain the extent of occupied terri- 
tories, and consequently impossible to assign new 
territories that should be entirely free from former 
owners or claimants. There were these two sources 
of titulary possession and owneiship, royal grants 
and Indian grants, and those who emigrated to New 
England on account of alleged persecutions and dis- 
criminations in the old country, generally preferred 
to obtain their lands in the new count r\- without 
seeking farther than was absolutely necessary the 
assistance of that royal government whose author- 
ity to them had appeared partial and oppressive. 
Before arrangements were made for embarking 
with all their possessions to New England, a large 
number of men in the north of Ireland signed and 
forwarded a petition to the governor of these 
colonies asking preliminary questions relative to 
the plan of emigration and a portion of unoccu- 
pied land on which to settle with their families. 
As this petition may be of interest hereafter in 
tracing families who came to Londonderry and 
other parts of New England or this country, a 
copy is here inserted : 

To His Excellency the Right Honorable Colonel Samuel 
Shute, Governor of New England. 

We, whose names are underwritten, inhabitants of the North 
of Ireland, do in our own names, and in the names of many others 



our nei!;hbors, gentlemen, ministers, farmers, and tradesmen, com- 
missionate and appoint our trusty and well beloved friend, the Rev. 
William Boyd of Macasky. to His Excellency the Right Honor- 
able Colonel Samuel Shute. Governor of New England, and to 
assure His F^xcellency of our sincere and hearty inclination to 
trans|.)ort ourselves to that very excellent and renowned planta- 
tion upon our obtaining from His Excellency suitable encourage- 
ment. And further to act and do in our names as his prudence 
shall direct. Given under our hands th's 26th day of March, 
Annoque D.omini 17 18. James Tratte. V. 1). M. : Thomas Cob- 
bam, V. D. M. : Robert Houston. V. I). M. : William Leech, 
V. D. M. : Robert Higginbotham, V. D. M. : John Porter, 
V. 1). M, : Hen. Neille, V. D. M. ; Tho. Elder, V. I). M. : 
).,mes Thomson, V. D. M. : William Ker, Will. McAlben, 
Jahon Anderson, George Greye, Andrew Dean, Alexander Dun- 
lop, M. A, ; Arch. M. Cook, M. A. : Alex'r Blair, B. Cuclu-an, 
William Gait, Peter Thompson, Richard McLoughlin, John 
Muar. William Jeameson. Wm. Agnew, Jeremiah Thompson, 
John Mitchell, James Paterson, Joseph Curry. David Willson, 
Patrick Anderson, John Gray, James Grey, Alexander McBride, 
Bart., Samuel McGivorn, John Hurdock, Geo. Campbell, James 
Shorswood, John McLoughlin, George McLoughlin, James 
Hune, Thomas^amsay, Francis Ritchie, James Gregg, Robert 
Boyd, Hugh Tarbel, David Tarbel, John w^ X .""k Robb. Jeattes 
Fulltone, Robert Wear, Alexander Donnaldson, Arch'd Duglass, 
Robert Stivin, Robert Henry, James Pettey, David Bigger, 
David Patterson, David (illegible), John Wight, Joseph Wight, 
Robt. Willson, James Ball, Andrew Cord, James Nesmith, John 
Black, John Thompson, Samuel Boyd, Lawrence McLaughlin, 
John Heslet, (ieorge McAlester, Thomas Ramadge, James 
Campbell, David Lindsay, Robert Givern, James Laidlay, Ben- 
jamin Gait, Daniel Todd, Robert Barr, Hugh Hollmes, Robert 
King, John Black, Peter Christy, James Smith, James Smith, 
PauLck Smith, Samuel Ceverelle, James Craig, Samuel Wilson, 
M.' A, Gawen Jirwen, Robert Miller, Thomas Wilson, William 
Wilson, James Brice, Ninian Pattison, James Thompson, John 
Thompson, Robert Thompson, Adam Thompson, Alexander 
Pattison, Thomas Dunlop, John Willson, David Willson, John 
Moor. James McKeen, John Lamont, John Smith, Patrick Orr. 
Bonill Orr, William Orr, John Orr, Jeams Lenox, John Leslie, 
John Lason. John Calvil, Samuel Wat. James Crawford, David 
Henderson. Mathew Storah (?), David Widborn, Luk Wat, 
Robert Hendee, William Walas, Thomas Walas, Thomas Cecoch 
(?), WiUiam Boyd, William Christy, John Boyd, William Boyd, 



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Hugh Orr. Robert Johnston. Thomas Black. Peter Murray. John 
lameson. John Cochran. .Samuel (lonston. Thomas Shadey, 
William KLer, Thomas Moore, .\ndre\v Watson, John Thonson, 
James McKerrall. Hugh Stockman, Andrew Cochran. James 
Carkley, Lawrence Dod, .Sandes Mear, John Jackson, James 
Curry, James Elder, James Acton, Samuel Smith, Andrew Dody, 
James Forsaith. Andrew Fleming, Gorge Thomson, James 
Brouster. Thomas (illegible). James Beverlan, Peter Simpson, 
Thomas McLoughlin, Robert Boyd, Andrew Agnew. James 
Ring, Thomas l^lder, Daniel Johnston, Robert Walker, David 
lonston, James Steuart, John Murray, Thomas Blackwel, Thomas 
Wilson, John Ross, William Johnston, John King, Andrew 
Curr}-, John (illegible), Samuel Code. James Blak. Thomas Gro. 
Thomas Ouston, Jame Gro, John Clark, Thomas McFader, 
David Hanson, Richard Acton, James Claire, lacob Clark. 
Abram Baberley, Steven Murdock, Robert Murdock, John Mur- 
dock. William Jennson. 
James Rodger. John Buy- 
ers. Robert Smith, Adam 
1 )ean. Randall Alexander, 
Thomas Boyd. Hugh 
Rogers. John Craig. Wm. 
Boyle, Benj. Boyle, Ja. 
Kenedy, M. Stirling, 
.Samuel Ross, John Ram- 
say, John McKeen, James 
Willsone, Robert McKeen, 
lohn Boyd, Andrew Dun- 
lap, James Ramsay, 
William Park, John 
Blair, James Thompson, 
Lawrence McLoughlin, 
Will. Campibell, James 
Bankhead, Andrew Pat- 
rick, James McFee, James 
Tonson (?), George Anton, 
George Kairy, Thomas 
Freeland, Thomas Hunter, 
Daniel ws X '"■"'< McKer- 
rell, Horgos !"» X ""irk Ken- 
edey, John in» X n.u.k Suene, 
Adam his X mark Ditkoy, Alexander Kid, Thomas Lorie, Thomas 
Hines, Will w* X ""k Holkins, Cieorge Anton, John Colbreath, Wil- 
liam Caird, John Ciray, John Woodman (?), AndrewWatson, WiL 
liam Bleair, Joseph Bleair, Hugh i.i» X -""tk Blare, William Blare, 
Samuel Anton, James Knox, Robert Hendry, John Knox, William 
Hendry, William Dunkan, David Duncan, John Muree, James (iill- 
mor, Samuel Gillmor, Alexander Cochran, Edward McKane, John 
Morduck, Samuel w. X '""rk McMun, Henry Calual, Thomas Mc- 
Loughlin, Robert Huoy, John Millar, Hugh Calwell, William Boyd, 
John Stirling, Samuel Smith, John Lamond, Robert Lamond, 
Robert Knox, William Wilson, Wm. Patterson, James Alexander, 
James Nesmith, David Craig, Weall. McNeall, Thomas Orr, Wm. 
Caldwall, James Moore, Jr., Sam. Gunion, Matthew Lord. Robert 
Knox. .\lex. McGregore. James Trotter. Robert Roo. Joseph 
Watson, Robert Miller. John Smeally. James Morieson, James 
Walker, Robert Walker, William i.isX mark Calwall, William Walker, 




CRYSTAL AVENUE, DERRY DEPOT (1894). 



Samuel ins X murk Young. Alexander Richey, James Morieson, Jo- 
seph i.is X """k Burrlan, Robert \m X m-irk Crage, John Thompson, 
Hugh Tomson, James Still, James i.is X mmk Hoog, Thomas Han- 
son, Richard Etone.James Etone, Thomas Etone,Samuell Hanson, 
James Cochran, James Hulton (?). Thomas Hasetone (?), John 
Cochran, William Corliran. Samuel i"s X mark Huntor. John Huntor. 

The accuracy of this list cannot be fully and 
clearly established, as it is the copy of a copy. The 
manuscript is very old and illeo-ible in many places, 
but the value of the document lies largely in the 
proof it affords of the original spelling of proper 
names in the signatures, and in this respect it is 
superior to the authority of the public records 
where the clerk is responsible for the orthography 

and is'Jnot always 
correctly informed. 

T h e encourage- 
ment offered by the 
governor was so fa- 
vorable that the col- 
ony of Nutfield was 
informally organized 
on the I ith of April, 
I 7 I Q, under the belief 
that the territory had 
not been appropri- 
ated. As the party 
arrived, full of hope 
and ambition, and 
began to cut timber 
and erect log cabins 
along Westrunning 
brook, it was soon 
discovered that other 
civilized white people 
were scattered through the wilderness, and claim- 
ing lands by reason of certain deeds and papers. 
Claims were challenged. The controversy aroused 
opposition and investigations that led to the find- 
ing of several Indian deeds, or claims founded on 
such deeds-, in the possession of earlier settlers. 
Some of these settlers were easily induced to part 
witii their lands for small sums of money, being 
persuaded that these titles were conflicting and 
doubtful. There was one deed dated March 13, 
1 70 1, covering so exactly the territory desired by 
the new colony, that it was deemed expedient to 
investigate no further, but proceed immediately to 



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find the party to whom the original grant had been 
issued, or his Hving representative with the hirgest 
chiim. and come to some agreement with him 
whereby the people of Nutfield might be allowed 
to remain, and occupy and acquire legal possession 
of the lantl. The largest owner was located, and 
the town records, commonlv called the Proprietors' 
Book, furnish the following [lartieulars ot the 
Wheelwright purchase : 

September 23, 17 19. The town ordered James Gregg and 
Robert Wear to present a petition to the court of New Hamp- 
shire to obtain a power of government and town privileges. The 
said petition was presented and the answer of it delayed until the 
next spring session. The town understanding that it was need- 
ful to make an agreement with Col. John Wheelwright of Wells 
about the sale of Nutfield, ordered October, 17 19, Rev. James 
MacGregor and Samuel Graves to wait upon Col. Wheelwright 
for that end : they accordingly obtained a deed from Col. Wheel- 
wright and came to an agreement with him. The copy of the 
Deed is as foUoweth : 

These presents witnesselh that I, John Wheelwright, of Wells, in the 
county of York, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, do for me myself, my 
heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, by virtue of a deed or grant made 
to my grandfather, a minister of the Gospel, and others named in said grant, 
by sundry Indian Sagemores, with the consent of the w'hole tribe of Indians 
between the rivers of Merrim.'ck and Piscalaqua, to them and their heirs, for- 
ever, full power for the laying out, bounding and granting these lands into 
suitable tracts fur townships, unto such nmnbers of people as may from time to 
lime otTer to settle and improve the same, which deed beareth date May llie 
seventeenth, one thousand six hundred twenty-and-nine, and is well 
executed, acknowledged, and approved by the authority, on the day, 
as may at large more fully appear ; pursuant thereunto I do by these 
presents give and grant all my right, title, and interest therein contained 
unto Mr. James MacGregor, Samuel Graves, David Cargill, James 
MacKeen, James (Jregg, and one hundred more mentioned in a list, to 
ihem and their heirs, forever, a certain tract of land bounded as fol- 
lowelh ; not exceeding the quantity of ten miles square, beginning at a pine 
tree marked which is the southwest corner of Chester, and running to the 
northwest corner of said Chester, and from the noithwest corner running upon 
a due west line unto the river Merrimack, and down the river Merrimack until 
it meet with the line of Dunstable, and then turning eastward upon said Dun- 
stable line until it meet with the line of Dracut, and continuing eastward upon 
Dracut line until it meet with the line of Haverhill, and extending northward 
upon Haverhill line until it meet with the line of Chester, and then turning 
westward upon the said line of Chester unto the pine tree first mentioned, 
where it began. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal 
this twentieth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and nineteen. 

JOllM WIIKKLWRIGHT. [1.. s.] 

Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of 
Daniel Dupee, 
John Hirst. 

SvilTolk, ss., Boston, Oct. 20, 1719. John Wheelwright, Esq , personally 
appearing, acknowledged the above instrument to be his voluntary act and deed. 

Coraiu Wm. Wl.isrEKIi, Jml. P,;i,t\ 

In the meanwhile a new discovery was made 
of more serious import to the little colony at Nut- 
field, that the grant of ten miles square so much 
desired by reason of its situation and fertility, was 



not within the limits of the province of Massa- 
chusetts Wax. but included in the bountlaries of the 
province of New Hampshire. While attacked on 
every side by the indignant possessors of other and 
older claims, and hustled about, and having their 
goods damaged in ejectments from the more fierce 
claimants, the town had informally organized and 
appointed officers and committees to attend to the 
yery important matters of title and occupancy. 
The town had not been incorporated, nor even the 
right to oceupv fully or legally established. The 
officers applied to the general court of New 
Hampshire in the expectation of securing an act 
of incorporation, Sept. 23, 1719. The petitit)n 
represents the people of Nutfield, at that time 
humbled bv the accumulation of obstacles, and 
quite willing to accept some assistance from King 
George in furtherance of their plan for permanent 
settlement, and especially set forth the claim, that 
they were descended from, and professed the faith 
and principles of the established church, and were 
loyal subjects of the British crown. George, l)y 
the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, 
and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc., was 
graciously pleased to grant to his beloved subjects 
the ten miles square tract of land on certain con- 
ditions. But the name of Nutfield was sacrificed, 
and the township really and trulv incorporated by 
the name of Londonderr\'. 

The tlate of this royal document was June 21, 
1722, and attached to it was the schedule of the 
names and shares of the proprietors of the township 
of Londonderry. Nutfield existed in hypothetical 
anticipation of being legally incorporated either in 
the province of Massachusetts Bay or the province 
of New Hampshire, under some delusive titulary 
conveyance from Indian, adventurer, immigration 
agent, or pioneer, for three years, and during those 
three years all the business of town meetings, and 
actions ot officers and committees were anticipatory 
of legal justification. 

After more than three years of struggling 
against misfortunes and much importunate be- 
seeching, through the intervention of influential 
officers of the crown, the precious document was 
brought to town, not to Nutfield, but to London- 
derr\-, and not in the province of Massachusetts, 
but in the province of New Hampshire. The copy 



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of the r()\al Liiaiit and sclicdLilc is iK-rcwit li pre- 
sented to tlie reader : 

George by the grace of God of Great Britain l-'iance and 
Ireland King Defender of the Faith, etc. IH all people to whom 
these presents shall come, greeting. 

Know ye that we of our especial knowledge and mere mo- 
tion for the due encouragement of settling new ])lantations. by 
and with the advice and consent of our council, have given and 
granted by these presents, as far as in us lies do give and grant, 
in ecjual shares unto sundry of our beloved subjects, whose names 
are entered unto a schedule hereunto annexed, that inhal)it, or 
shall inhabit, within the said grant within our province of New 
Hampshire, all that tract of land, within the following bounds, 
being ten miles square, or so much as amounts to ten miles 
square, and no more, bearing on the northeast angle at a beach 
tree marked, which is the southeast angle of Chester, and run- 
ning from thence due south on Kingstown line four miles and a 
half, and from thence on a west line one mile and three quarters, 
and from thence south si.x miles and a half and from thence 
west-north-west nine miles and a half, and from thence north 
eleven miles and a half, and from thence north-north-east three 
miles, from thence east-south-east one mile, and from thence 
south-south-west to the southwest angle of Chester, and from 
thence on an east-south-east line bounding on Chester ten miles 
unto the beach tree first mentioned, and that the same be a town 
corporate by the name of Londonderry, to the persons aforesaid, 
forever, ]jrovided nevertlieless. and the true intent and mean- 
ing of these presents is, anything to the contrary notwithstanding, 
that nothing in this said grant shall extend to, or be understood 
to extend, to defeat, prejudice, or make null and void any claim, 
title or ])retence, which our province of the Massachusetts Bay 
may have to all, or any part of the premises granted as aforesaid, 
or the right to claim property, or demand of any private jjerson 
or persons, by reason and means of all or any part of the said 
granted premises falling within the line or boundaries of our said 
jjrovince of the Massachusetts Bay, to have and to hold the said 
land to the grantees, their heirs, and assigns, forever, upon the 
following conditions, viz : 

I St. That the |)roprietors of every share build a ilwelling 
house within three years, and settle a family therein, and break 
u]i three acres of ground, and plant or sow the same within four 
years, and pay his or their ])roportion of the town charges, when 
and so often as occasion shall require the same. 

2nd. That upon default of any particular proprietor in com- 
plying with the conditions of this charter, or his part, such delin- 
(|uent [jroprietor shall forfeit his share to the other proprietors, 
to be dis])osed of by vote of the major part of the proprietors, and 
in case of an Indian war within the said four years, the said grantees 
shall ha\e four years more, after the said war is ended, for the 
pert'ormaiice of those conditions. The said men and inhabitants 
also rendering and l)aying for the same to us and our successors, 
or to such officer or officers as shall be a]i])ointed to receive the 
same, the annual quit-rent or acknowledgement of one peck of 
l^otatoes, on the first day of October yearly forever, reserving 
also unto us. and our heirs and successors, all mast trees growing 
on said tract of land, and according to the acts of Parliament in 



that behalf made and provided, and for the better order, rule and 
government of the said town, we do by these presents grant, for 
us and our heirs and successors, unto the said grantees, that 
yearly and every year, upon the fifth day of March forever, ex- 
cept the Lord's Day, and then on the Monday next following, 
they shall meet and elect and choose, by the major part of the 
electors present, all town officers, according to the laws and 
usage of the other towns within our said province, for the year 
ensuing, with such powers, privileges and authorities, as other 
town officers in our province aforesaid do enjoy, as also 
that on every Wednesday in the week forever, they may hold, 
keep and enjoy a market, for the selling and buying of goods, 
wares, merchandise and all kinds of creatures, endowed with the 
usual privileges, profits and immunities, as other market towns 
usually hold, possess and enjoy, and two fairs annually forever 
the first to be held, or kept, within the said town on the eighth 
day of October next, and so de anno in annum forever, and the 
other on the eighth day of May in like manner, provided that it 
should so hapiien, that if at any time, either of those days fall on 
the Lord's Day, then the said fair shall be held and kept the day 
following, and that the said fair shall have, hold and ]jossess the 
lil.)erties, privileges and immunities, that other fairs in other towns 
usually possess, hold and enjoy. 

In witness whereof we have caused the seal of our said 
province to be hereunto affixed. 

Witness Samuel .Shute, Esq., our Governor and 
[1,. s.] Commander in Chief of our said province the twenty- 
first of June, Anno Domini, seventeen liundred 
twenty-two, and in the eighth year of our Reign. 

By advice of the Council, 

.S.\MUEL SHUTE. 

RlCH.\RD W.'^LDRON, CliT. Co/I. 

A schedule of the names of proprietors of Londonderry : 
John Moore. Robert W illson, James Moore. |ohn .-Xrchibald, 
James and John Doak, Henry Green, Abel Merrill, Randall 
Alexander, Robert Doak, Alexander Walker, John Clark, James 
Anderson. James Alexander. James Morrison, John Mitchell, 
Archibald Clendennen, John Barnard, James MacKeen and 
sons (2 shares), Jonathan Tyler, Alexander Nichols, James 
Nichols, William Nichols, William Humjjhrey, John Barr and 
sons (2 shares), David Craig and William Gillmore (2 shares), 
John Stewart, Thomas Steele, Samuel Allison, John Morrison, 
Robert Wear. Allen Anderson, Mr. MacGregor and sons 
(3 shares), James Nesmith, James Clark, William Gregg, John 
Gregg, John Gregg and sons (2 shares), William Willson and 
John Ritchey, David Cargill, Jr., William Thompson, Hugh Mont- 
gomery, Robert Morrison, Alexander MacNeal, Rol)ert Boyes, 
John MacMurphy, John .\lacNeal, William Campbell, Capt. David 
Cargill, John Archibald, Jr, James MacNeal, Daniel McDuffee 
(}f share). Samuel Houston, Col. John Wheelwright. Edward Proc- 
tor. Benjamin Kidder John Gra)-. Joseph Kidder. ]oh\\ ( lofl'e. Sam- 
uel Grover, John Crombie, Matthew Clark. James Lindsay, James 
Leslie, John Anderson, James Blair, John Blair, James Moore, 
John Shields (^ share), James Rodgers (^ share), Joseph 
Simonds, Elias Keyes, John Robey, John Senter, Robert 
MacKeen, Janet, Samuel and John MacKeen, William, Coghran, 
John. Peter, and .Andrew Coghran, David Boyle, James Gregg. 



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Samuel Grover and Robert Boyes, James Aiken, ^^'illiam Aiken, 
Edward Aiken, John Wallace, Benjamin Willson, Andrew Todd. 
John Bell, David Morrison, Samuel Morrison, Abram Holmes. 
John Given, William Eayres, Thomas Boyle, Elizabeth Willson 
and Mary her daughter {\ share), Samuel Graves, Jr., John 
Goffe, Jr., Stephen Pierce, Andrew Spalding, Alexander Mac- 
Murphy and James Liggitt (^ share), James MacGregor for ser- 
vants {\ share), Capt. Cargill for two servants, George Clark 
{\ share), Thomas Clark (\ share), Nehemiah Giffin {\ share), 
James MacGloughlan {\ share). Parsonage lott John Barnard. Jr.. 
John MacConoghy. John MacClury (^ share), John Woodburn, 
Banning Wentworth, Richard Waldron, Jr., Lt. Gov. Wentworth, 
Robert Armstrong, Robert Auchmuty, making a total of \2z\ 
shares. 

The full number of ])roprietors in our charter is one hun- 
dred and twenty-four and a half, parsonage and all. The memo- 
randum over and above 
what is already given in 
this schedule is added to 
Mr. MacGregor. 250 acres ; 
Mr. MacKeen, 250 acres ; 
Mr. David Cargill, 100 
acres ; Mr. James (rregg, 
150 acres ; John Goffe, 
100 acres : total, 850 acres. 
And to the two last 
mentioned, viz, Gregg and 
Goffe, a mill stream within 
the said town for their 
good service in promoting 
the settlement of the town. 
Richard Waldron, 

Clcr. Con. 

New Hampshire, June 
22. 1722. Admitted [jro- 
prietors and commoners 
in the town of London- 
derry with the persons 
mentioned in this schedule: 
His Excellency Governor 

Shute a home lot and 500 acres : His Honor Lieut. Guv. ^Vent- 
worth a home lot and 500 acres : Samuel Penhallow. Mark Hun- 
kins, George Jaffrey. Shadrack Waldron. Richard Wibbard, 
Thomas Westbrook, Thomas Parker, Archie MacPheadin, one 
share each. 

Richard Waldron, Clerk of Coitniil. 

It miiilit have been thouo^ht the ritrhts and 
interests of every person in the new e(ih>nv of 
Londonderry had been thoroughly secured at the 
end of three such vexatious years in this liberal 
charter and kingly favor, but unfortunately there 
were clauses in the royal grant that left the title to 
the land no clearer than before, as it was not per- 
mitted to make void tiie claim of the province of 




BROADWAY, DERRY DEPOT. I.OOKINO EAST (1894). 



Massachusetts, to any or all of this tract, nor could 
it be enforced against the rights of anv private 
person, and interminable disputes occurred all 
along the boundaries, especially on the east and 
south. In some instances the claimants, despairing 
of receiving justice at the hands of public oflfiCers, 
attempted to settle the question of occupancy by 
phvsical force. There was so little currency in the 
countrv at that period, and very few of the settlers 
had anv means of defraving the expenses of a law- 
suit in defence of their homesteads, the suffering 
was so great, the redress so remote, and delays so 
disastrous in the cases of ejectment, that the town 

was obliged to have 
a warrant article al- 
tnost annually to see 
what next should be 
done for protection, 
and determine how 
the cost of suits 
should be raised. The 
deeds that have been 
mentioned hitherto 
and the charter have 
been given in this ar- 
ticle, although thev 
may be ft)untl in 
other histories of 
towns embraced in 
part in the original 
boundary of Lontlon- 
derry. There is no 
doubt about the va- 
lidity of another deed 
of which little has been written in former histories, 
and a careful examination of the records will con- 
vince the reader that much more profitable sales were 
made under the provisions of the Mason grant, 
than under that of Wheelwright, and it was found 
practically impossible to expel those who held land 
under the Mason grant. Ejectments came by the 
grant, but the people who could be disturbed by 
reason of the Mason grant finally took measures 
to forever clear their titles of any claim under it. 
The deed will give a fair understanding of the situa- 
tion in this and neighl)oring towns twenty-five 
years after the arrival of the Nutfield colony. It 
is said these twelve men of Portsmouth named in 



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8S 



(he deed below quit claimed to seventeen old towns 
between the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers 
already settled without e.xactinu more than a nom- 
inal consideration : 

To all Peoiile to whom these presents shall come, John 
Tiifton Mason of Portsmouth within the Province of New Hamp- 
shire in New England. Esquire, sendeth greeting : 

Know- ye that Captain John Mason heretofore of London. 
Esquire, now deceased, by virtue of several grants to him made 
by and under the Crown and several confirmations and ratifica- 
tions thereof by the Crown, claimed and held a certain tract of 
land situated in New England in America, lying upon the sea 
coast between the river Merrimack and the river of Piscataqua, 
and running up Piscataqua river to the farthest head thereof, and 
from thence northwestward until sixty miles are completed, and 
so running up the river 




Merrimack sixty miles, and 
thence across the main 
land to the end of the sixty 
miles aforesaid, commonly 
called and known by the 
name of New Hamjjshire. 
which grants and the right, 
title and inheritance of in 
and unt(j the same, which 
did belong to the said 
Capt. John Mason, is now 
become the estate in fee 
of the said John Tufton 
Mason, as he is heir at law 
of John Tufton Mason, 
deceased, who w-as the son 
and heir of Robert Tufton 
Mason, deceased, who was 
grandson and heir at law^ 
of the said Capt. |ohn 
Mason, deceased. .And 
for and in consideration of 
the sum of fifteen hundred 

pounds of good and lawful money of the province of New Hamj)- 
shire. aforesaid, to me the said John Tufton Mason in hand well 
and truly paid by Theodore Atkinson. Richard VVibird. John 
Moftatt. Mark Hunking Wentvvorth. Samuel Moore. vjotham 
Odiorne Junr.. and Joshua Pierce, Esquire, Nathaniel Meserve, 
George Jafifiey. Junr.. and John Went worth, Junr., gentlemen, all 
of Portsmouth aforesaid, and Thomas Wallingford of Sommers- 
worth in said Province. Esquire, and Thomas Packer of Green- 
land in the Province aforesaid, the receijit whereof, to full content 
and satisfaction. I hereby acknowledge, and thereof and of every 
l)art and jjarcel thereof. I do exonerate, accpiit and discharge them, 
the said Theodore Atkinson. Richard VVibird, John Motl'att. Mark 
Hunking Wentworth. Samuel Moore, Jotham Odiorne, Junr., 
Joshua Pierce. Nathaniel Meserve. George JafTrey. Junr.. John 
Wentworth. Junr., Thomas Wallingford. and Thomas Packer, and 
all and every of their several and respective heirs, executors and 
administrators, forever. Have given, granted, bargained and sold, 



and by these presents do give, giant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, 
make over, convey, and forever confirm, unto them, the said Theo- 
dore .\tkinson. Richard Wibird. John Moffatt, Mark Hunking 
Wentworth, Samuel Moore, Jotham Odiorne.Junr., Joshua Pierce, 
Nathaniel Meserve, George Jaffrey. Junr.. John Wentworth, Junr., 
Thomas Wallingford. and Thomas Packer, their heirs and assigns 
forever, in the manner and proportion hereafter in these presents 
mentioned, all that my right, title, interest, estate, inheritance, 
])roperty. possession, claim or demand whatsoever, which I now 
have, of in and unto all that tract or jjarcel of land situated in 
the Province aforesaid, containing Two Hundred Thousand Acres, 
more or less, bounded as follows, viz : 

Beginning at the mouth of the Piscataqua river, thence up 
the same to the farthest head of Newickewannick river, so called, 
and to the farthest head thereof, and thence northwestward until 
sixty miles be completed from the mouth of said Piscataqua 

river, the place where it 
_ began, and then from Pis- 
cataqua river aforesaid 
along the sea coast towards 
Merrimack river until it 
comes to the boundary 
line between the said 
Province of New Hamp- 
shire and the Province of 
Massachusetts Bay. thence 
running as the .said bound- 
ary line runs until sixty 
miles be completed from 
the sea, then running from 
the westerly end of the 
sixty miles last mentioned 
acrots the land to the 
northerly end of the sixty 
miles first mentioned, to- 
gether with the southeast 
half of the Isle of Shoals, 
with all my right, title, in- 
terest, estate, inheritance, 
property, possession, claim 
and demand whatsoever, I have of in and unto all and every of 
the towns, parishes, precincts, districts, villages, buildings, woods, 
rivers, ponds, waters and water courses, stones, mines, quarries 
and minerals, and all timber trees within the said boundaries 
with all and every of the privileges and appurtenances, profits, 
commodities and accommodations to the same and any and 
every part and jxircel thereof, in any manner belonging, with 
the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, 
issues, and profits, to the same and to any and every part and 
parcel thereof in any manner belonging, and appurtaining. To 
have and to hold the said granted and bargained i}remises, with 
the privileges and appurtenances as aforesaid, in manner and 
form following, viz : to the said Theodore Atkinson three fif- 
teenths parts thereof, to him. his heirs and assigns. And to the 
said Mark Hunking Wentworth his heirs and assigns two fif- 
teenths parts thereof, and to the said Richard Wibird, John 
Moftatt, Samuel Moore, Jotham Odiorne, Junr., Joshua Pierce, 



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Nathaniel Meserve, George Jaffrey, Junr., John Wentworth, Junr., 
Thomas Wallingford and Thomas Packer, to each of them and 
their several and respective heirs and assigns forever, one fifteenth 
part thereof, forever, so that no person or persons claiming, or that 
shall or may hereafter claim the said granted and bargained prem- 
ises, or any part thereof, from by or under me the said John Tiif- 
ton Mason, shall have any right, interest, inheritance, possession 
or property whatsoever of in and unto the same, or to any part or 
parcel thereof, forever, hereafter. Moreover Anna Elizabeth Ma- 
son, the wife of me the said John Tufton Mason, doth by these 
presents give, grant and surrender all her right of dower and 
thirds in the premises, unto them the said Theodore Atkinson, 
Richard Wibird, John Moffatt, Mai'k Hunking Wentworth. 
Samuel Moore, Jotham Odiorne, Junr., Joshua Pierce, Nathaniel 
Meserve, George Jaffrey, Jr., John Wentworth, Jr., Thomas 
Wallingford and Thomas Packer, their heirs and assigns, forever. 
In witness whereof the 
said John Tufton Mason 
and Anna Elizabeth my 
said wife, hereunto set our 
hands and seals, the thir 
tieth day of July, in the 
twentieth year of the reign 
of King George the .Sec- 
ond, Anno Domini 1746. 
John Tufton Mason, [s.] 
Anna Elizabeth 

Tufton Mason, [s.] 

Signed sealed and de- 
livered after the words 
(all her right of dower and 
thirds in the premises) 
were inserted in the last 
line of second page I n 
presence of us 

Joshua Gilman. 

Noah Emerv. 

Province of New Hamp- 
shire, July 30, 1746. Re- 
ceived of Theodore Atkin- 
son, Esquire, and others, in the foregoing deed mentioned, fif- 
teen hundred pounds the full sum of the consideration this deed 
mentioned. ^1500. John Tufton Mason. 

Province of New Hamijshire, Portsmouth, July 31, 1746. 
Then John Tufton Mason, Esquire, above named and Anna 
F^lizabeth his wife, personally appearing before me the subscriber, 
one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for said Province, 
acknowledged the foregoing deed to be their free act and deed. 

Pierce Long. 

Rec'd. .\ug. 27, 1746, and recorded 2Sth Aug.. 1746. 

I). Pierce, Rciuiuicr. 

Province of New Ham])shire. A true ropy from Lib. 31 
Fol. 220. E.xamined the 22nd June. 1756. 

L). Pierce, Recorder. 




P.IRCH STREET, DERRV DEPOT (1894). 



The conflictintj of titles sprang; from many 
causes, chief among them a general ignorance of the 
geography of the country, and the granting of terri- 
tory already covered under the supposition that the 
terms of the former conveyance had been violated to 
the extent of annulling the grant, or the supposition 
that an Indian deed was better than a royal grant. 
There was, even after the purchase under the 
Mason grant just quoted, abundant cause for 
an.xietv among the early settlers, and it delayed the 
development of the town seriously, and led to in- 
numerable cases of abandonment of homesteads, and 
removal to other parts of the country. The fol- 
lowing paper may be 
of some assistance in 
understanding more 
of the situation. It is 
found in a manu- 
script of the date 
Aug. 9, I 766. 

A brief account of the 
title of Capt. John Mason- 
Upon Mr. Allen petition- 
ing Queen Anne to be put 
in possession of the waste 
lands, the assembly passed 
an act for confirmation of 
their township grants with- 
out respect to the Mason 
Claim. Ui)on Mr. Allen's 
application the Queen in 
council repealed that act, 
the Crown assumed the 
vacant lands until Mr. 
Allen can make it appear 
that Mr. Mason was ever 
in possession of said lands, 
as did appear by the cases of Allen against Waldron and 
Vaughan John Hobby, grandson to Sir Charles Hobby and John 
Adams of Boston, claiming one half of the INLason grant bought 
of Col. Allen, Mason's heirs saying the grant was entailed and 
could not be sold. In 1635 Captain John Mason dies, having 
willed New Hampshire to John Tufton on condition of his taking 
the name of Mason. John dying a minor, it fell to Robert 
Tufton Mason an infant. When Robert came of age he peti- 
tioned King Charles II to be relieved as to the property of his 
land, Geoftrey Palmer Attorney General made report that these 
lands were the undoubted right of Robert Mason. William 
Housleton and Peter Biickly sent over to answer Mason's com- 
plaint as attorneys for the Massachusetts Bay province disclaimed 
said lands before the court of King's Bench. Mr. Mason brought 
suits of ejectment against William Vaughan and recovered judg- 
ment. Vaughan appealed Home. His appeal was dismissed 



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and the former judgment cohfirmed, the appellant pays cost. 
Mr. Mason, despairing of any agreement with the people, re- 
turns to England and dies, leaving two sons John and Robert 
'I'ufton Mason, who conveyed the whole of their rights to 
Samuel Allen of London for 2750^" sterling. 

An abstract of Mason's deed to Allen may be seen in Doug- 
lass' History, page 29, vol. II. Col. Allen came over to prose- 
cute his claims and found 24 or 25 leaves torn out of the records. 
These leaves contained the former judgment obtained by Mason. 
Mr. Allen petitioned Queen Anne to be put in possession of the 
wastelands. The petition was referred to the Board of Trade 
and Plantation and they consulted with Sir Edward Northey, 
Attorney General, who reported that Her Majesty might safely 
put him in possession of the unimproved lands but where the 
inhabitants had possession he must bring writs of ejectment. 
Gov. Dudley was ordered to be present when the trial of Wal- 
dron and Allen came, and Dudley pretended to be indisposed 
in body and could go no further than Newbjry. The defendant 
recovered cost. Col. Allen appealed Home but died before the 
apieal was prosecuted. His son Charles succeeded him in these 
claims, who brought anew writ of ejectment, was lost in cost, as 
appeared the verdict being repressed. He appealed Home but 
likewise died before his case came on, leaving two sons and one 
daughter ; to cut off Allen's claims the Government lately made 
agreement of the waste lands to 60 of the inhabitants of New- 
Hampshire by the name of Kingswood. There is a paragraph 
in the Massachusetts new charter which favors Allen's claim and 
reads thus : "Nothing therein contained shall prejudice any 
right of Samuel Allen claiming under Capt. Mason deceased of 
any part of the premises." 



liL* was chosen one (if the directors of the Derry 
Bank, which at tiiat time was located in the East 
\"illa<i"e. In 1 S64, the hank, which was then at the 
Depot ViUage, was organized as a national bank, 
and Mr. Noyes was elected president, which office 
he has continued to hold to the present time. 



A YOUNG BRITISH OFFICER, clad in a 
bright scarlet uniform, was visiting in Lon- 
donderry during his furlough at the time of the 
old French wax. Going to church on Sunda\', he 
entered and, taking a conspicuous place in sight of 
the whole congregation, remained standing. Rev. 
Matthew Clark, the minister, noticing that the at- 
tention of his audience, especially of the young 
ladies, was being engrossed by the officer, paused 
iir the midst of his sermon and said to him : " Ve 
are a brave hul, ve ha'e a brave suit o' claithes, 
and we ha'e a' seen them ; ve may sit doun." The 
soldier's courage failed him completelv, and lie in- 
stantlv took his s.-at, while the jireacher went on 
with his discourse. 



HON. JOHN W. NOYES, son of Daniel and 
Nancv (Weare) Noyes, was born in Spring- 
lieid, N. H., Jan. 14, 18 10. His father, a native of 
Kingston, N. H., and a son of James Noves, was a 
descendant of the Noyes familv who were early 
settlers of Newbury, Mass. Daniel Noyes removed 
to Springfield and engaged in business at an early 
age. He also held the various town offices and 
was a member of the State Legislature. His wife 
was a descendant of Hon. Nathaniel Weare, a dis- 
tinguished citizen of New Hampshire in the early 
(lays of the colony. John W. Noyes removed to 
Chester in March, 1832, and engaged in mercan- 
tile pursuits. He was a member of the Legislature 
in 1841, '42, '53, '54, '75, and '76, and was a mem- 
l)er of the Executive Council in 1864 and '65, be- 
sides holding at various times nearly all the town 
offices and being town treasurer for twentv-five 
years. He has been justice of the peace continu- 
ously since 1841 and notary public nearly as long. 
For nearly si.xty years he has been much engaged 
in the probate and insurance business. In 1840 



yOLNEY H. MOODY was born March 26, 
» 1859, ;tt Tunbridge, Vt. He obtained a com- 
mon school edtication, sui)plemented by a few 
terms at the high schools of Chelsea and Royalton 
in the same state. He remained at work upon the 
farm until he was twentv-one years of age. In the 
fall of that vear, 1880, he went to Derry Depot 
and obtained employment in the cutting room of 
the shoe factory under the management and super- 
intendence of Col. W. S. Pillsbury. Here he re- 
mained for eight years, when he found an oppor- 
tunity, in 1888, to purchase an interest for himself 
in the store next west of the railroad and on the 
north side of Broadway, with the firm of Pillsbury 
& Parmerton. In a short time he disposed of his 
interest there, and bought another interest in the 
store immediately opposite, with G. B. Smith, re- 
taining this iK)sition until Jan. i, 1890, when he was 
enabled to secure the ground floor and suitable 
accommodations for the large business he has built 
up in drv and fancv goods. The business has 
steadily increased under his management, each 
year requiring more space for the display and 
handling of his goods. He has found it necessary 
to occupy more room and with larger accommoda- 



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tions he has greatlv increased and improved his platforms. In social antl political circles Mr. 
display of jjoods. Mr. Moody was married, Sept. Moody has aimed at the recompense of reward that 
3, 1885, to Nancy J. Gage of Derry, daughter of is found in conscientious attention to the duties of 
John A. and Martha (Tenney) Gage. To this one's position, and this carefulness in detail has 
union was bcjrn Howard G. Moody, July 30, 1887. been the occasion of his promotion. He is a mem- 
The immediate ancestors of Mr. Moody are Flor- ber of the Masonic order, represented in St. Mark's 

Lodge. He is also in honor among the Indepen- 
dent Odd Fellows and has passed all the chairs. 








VOLNEY H. MOODY. 

cntine D. and Mary (Cram) Moody of Tunbridge, 
Vt. During Mr. Moody's residence in Derry, he 
has become identified with whatever movement 
tended toward the development of a new com- 
munity and the general welfare of the citizens. 
The importance of this new community in Derry 
Depot has been felt by the larger consensus of the 
township and appreciated in the election of more 
of these citizens to the offices of the town. Mr. 
Moody was one of the selectmen in 1890, '91 and 
'92. In 1 89 1 and '92 he was chairman of the 
board. At the town meeting of 1894 a large ma- 
jority voted for him to be the town's representa- 
tive in the General Court at Concord. His politi- 
cal opinions are coincident with the republican 



THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH in the 
early days exercised a most rigid supervision 
over the flock, their authoritv extending even into 
private and domestic affairs. If there was a rumor 
of trouble in a family, the elders would at once in- 
vestigate and some action on the case would be 
taken. The first matter of this kind to engage 
their attention was a report that James Doake had 
beaten his father. The elders promptly investi- 
gated and reported "that after a great deal of pains 
taken, thev cannot find it proven that James Doake 
did beat his father, yet the session agreeth that 
James Doake should be rebuked before them for 
giving his father the lie, and to be exhorted 
to respect and honor his parents in words and 
actions." 



T^HE FUNERAL OBSERVANCES of the 
•^ early settlers were of a character in some 
respects peculiar. When death entered their 
homes all work ceased in the neighborhood, and 
the people gathered at the house of mourning to 
observe a custom which they had brought with 
them from Ireland. These wakes often exhibited 
an incongruous mixture of solemnity and hilarity 
which we should find it difficult to understand. 
After the reading of the Scriptures and prayer, 
liquor would be handed round, and before dawn 
the joke and the laugh would break in upon the 
slumbers of the dead. There was always a large 
attendance at a funeral. Sermons were rarely de- 
livered on the occasion, but before the prayer strong 
drink was served to the mourners and to the whole 
congregation. The same was done after prayer 
and at the grave, as well as at the house after the 
burial. Many a family became seriously embar- 
rassed in consequence of the heavy expenses in- 
curred by the funeral services. 



DERRY DOCK RANGES. 



THIS name seems to hav^e denoted a section of 
land docked from the territory of Haverliill, 
or possibly it is descriptive of the valley that may 
have suggested to retired sea captains the figure of 
a dock. (See page 307). This area was referred 
to in the early records as the Leveritts' land, and a 
stream running through it was Leveritts' brook. 
The Nutfield settlers soon displaced the former 
occupants, and the land was allotted to persons 
named in the charter. The name of one of these 
charter settlers appears 
in this article for the first 
time, in consequence of 
his home lot being re- 
mote from other home 
lots. James Sterrat was 
mentioned in the list that 
tradition limited to six- 
teen names of persons 
with families who first 
settled permanently in 
Nutfield, more strictly 
defined as members of 
Rev. James McGregor's 
congregation who had 
come with him to Am- 
erica. Eightv acres of 
amendment land were 
laid out to Sterrat to the 
right of the pastor's ser- 
vant, and Sterrat's home 
lot lay immediately west 
of this amen d m e n t. 
Home lots were early 




provided for Nehemiah Griffin and James Mac- 
Glaughlan, servants of James McKeen and James 
Nesmith, respectively, and other lands were added 
later in this part of the town. James McKeen 
had two other servants, Thomas Clark and George 
Clark, and they also received homesteads adjoin- 
ing the other servants' lands. Capt. David Car- 
gill's two servants, William Nutt and Robert 
Miller, received homes in the same range, and 
adjoining the last named. This was a wise 
arrangement in many respects, for the territory 
was on the debatable frontier, and along the fine 



meadows of Leveritts' brook the people of Havei- 
hill were annually carrying away the hay. It was 
thus necessary to have strong and courageous men 
on the ground. 

Not far from the meadows two distinguished 
generals — Stark and Reid — were born (see paces 
15, 165, and 293), and extremes met in this same 
region of contentions, and so it remained until 
after the Revolution. The proscribed loyalists 
found at least temporary shelter under the same 

roof with the men that 
led the colonists to battle, 
and in childhood the 
same mothers reared and 
watched over some of 
them. Gen. Stark's 
father was here quite 
early, as there is a record 
July 12, 1723, of one acre 
of meadow laid out to 
him and Abraham Blair. 
The position of meadows 
generally cannot be repre- 
sented on these maps, 
but those at the upper 
end of Leveritts' brook 
were near the eastern 
boundary of the farm 
laid out to Jonathan 
Tyler and west of Lieut. 
Gov. Wentvvorth's farm. 
The land laid out to 
George a n d T h o m a s 
Clark later became the 



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property of the Reids, and the Tyler homestead 
passed to the Starks. 



T"^HE LONGEST COURTSHIP on the rec- 
* ords of Nutfield is that of Gabriel Barr and 
Rachel Wilson, who "kept company" forty years 
and finally died unmarried. Love laughs at lock- 
smiths, Init not at religious differences. Gabriel 
belonged to Rev. William Davidson's parish, and 
his sweetheart to Rev. Mr. McGregor's, and they 
could not agree which of the two good Presby- 
terian churches they should attend, the feud 



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between the two parishes being extremely bitter. 
The Scotch blood that ran in the veins of the 
lovers made it impossible for either to yield, and 
hence the long courtship, ended only by death. 



GEORGE ISAAC McALLISTER was born 
in Londonderry Dec. ii, 1853, his parents 
being Jonathan and Caroline (Choate) McAllister. 
His father, a successful 
farmer and a prominent 
citizen, resides in Lon- 
donderry, where he was 
born March 12, 181 7. 
His mother was born in 
Derry April 8, 1823, and 
was a daughter of James 
Choate. He graduated 
from Kimball Union 
Academy at Meriden in 
1873, from the Chandler 
Scientific Department of 
Dartmouth College in 
1877, studied law with 
Cross &. Burnham and 
Hon. David Cross, was 
admitted to the bar in 
March, 1S81, and has 
since practised law in 
Manchester, where he 
resides. He was asso- 
ciated with Hon. Henry 
E. Burnham as a partner 
in the practice of the law 
from April i, 1881, to 
Jan. I, 1884, and has 

been the candidate of the Democratic party for 
county solicitor. From Nov. i, 1885, to Dec. 1, 
1889, he held the office of deputy collector of 
internal revenue under Collector Calvin Page. 
Mr. McAllister has taken a great interest in Free 
Masonry. Since he was made a Mason, in 1881, 
he has received the thirty-second degree of the 
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in E. A. Ray- 
mond Consistory at Nashua, has been Worshipful 
Master of Washington Lodge, A. F. and A. M., 
and Eminent Commander of Trinity Comman- 
dery, Knights Templar, of Manchester, is the 



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Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of 
Free and Accepted Masons, and the Grand Cap- 
tain General of the Grand Commandery of 
Knights Templar of the state of New Hampshire. 
He is also a member of Ridgely Lodge of Odd 
Fellows, of Securit)' Lodge, Ancient Order of 
L'nited Workmen, of the Board of Trade, of the 
Granite State Club, and attends the First Baptist 
church. He married Mattie M., daughter of Hon. 

John M. and Susan E. 
Hayes, on Dec. 22, 1886. 
They have two bright 
children; Bertha Hayes, 
born Sept. 27, 1887, and 
tLircjld Cleveland, born 
March 28, 1893. Mr. 
McAllister is a public 
spirited citizen, a good 
lawyer, and is held in 
high esteem by his clients 
and friends. He is an 
excellent speaker, and 
has been called upon to 
deliver orations upon 
numerous public occa- 
sions. 



GEORGE 



CDW. L. PARKER, 
L^ for forty years pastor 
of the First church in 
Derry, was born in Litch- 
field July 28, 1785. On 
Sunday afternoon, July 
14, 1850, while returning 
MCALLISTER. houic froui a service 

which he had held in a 
schoolhouse, his horse stumbled and fell. He 
alighted from his carriage and went back to Mr. 
Clark's, the nearest house, to call assistance. On 
returning to the carriage, and while stooping over 
the horse, he groaned and fell into Mr. Clark's 
arms, expiring without a struggle. Death was 
caused by angina pectoris. He was married in 
181 1 to Miss Mehetable Kimball, daughter of 
Stephen Kimball of Hanover. Four children, two 
sons and two daughters, were born to them. Mr. 
Parker was not a great or an eloquent preacher, 
but it is said that he never delivered a poor sermon. 



THE AIKENS RANGE, 



BY REV. JESSE G. McMURPHY. 



THE position of this section of land, mostly fifteen, or even t\vcnt\ rods. The lono;er lines also 
devoted to homesteads, is on the westerly exceeded the record bv twenty, thirty, and even 
side of Beaver brook, and the lots were laid out in fortv rods. It has been explained by old survevors 
]iaralleloo-rams whose ano;les were somewhat in the followinjr manner : The ciiain bearers 
oliliiiue, to enable the sin-\eyors to make common added to the lensjth of every chain ; when the fore- 
headhnes and place the farms in one rany;e. The most man had drawn his chain straiyht from the 
westerly headline of the Aikens Range is the east- hand of the rear man at the last pin, he took the 
erly headline of the Eagers Range. The easterly end of the chain in one hand and a pin in the other 
headline of the Aikens Range is a side line to the hand and stepping as far as he could in advance 
connected homesteads of the Coghrans (a notable he reached forward with the ])in and dropped it. 
family whose name is variously written as Cough- This method would increase each chain length 
ran, Coghran, Cochran, and Cochrane, and prob- about the measure of a man's stature, and the 
ably to be identified with Coffran). The longer excess for a mile line would be about thirty rods, 
lines of the Aikens Range of homesteads are The next homestead in the range was laid out 
nearly parallel to the general course of Beaver to William Aiken and comprised the farm now 
brook. The homestead lying nearest to the brook occupied by Mrs. Elizabeth H. Karr and some 
leaves a wide space between that was not adapted small pieces that have been deeded to other parties 
to immediate settlement. At this part of Beaver on the eastern end. Edward Aiken had the home- 
brook the meadow margin is very broad, and at stead now owned by John Folsom, and this also 
the time the homesteads were laid out all the meadow extended originally farther east. The original 
was staked and bounded for the exclusive use of eastern boundary of the Aikens homesteads was a 
the settlers as they had agreed among themselves, small stream, which shows how much has been 
The legal possession of these meadows then be- taken from the ends of all of these farms. John 
came fixed by a formal act of the committee for Wallace had the lot now occupied by L. II. Pills- 
lot laying and the recording of the former transac- bury, and Benjamin Wilson's homestead came next 
tion. James Aiken had the homestead nearest the in order where Joseph R. Clark owns. Joseph R. 
brook, but that was not nearer than the farm upon Clark also owns the original homestead of Andrew 
which the l5radtords live. The rocky ridge to the Todd. In tlie records, owing to the obliquitv of 
southward probably limited the lot in that direction, the angles, it was represented that each entl 
The general model of the sixty-acre lot was a mile line was thirty-one rods, but in fact there 
in length and of width to correspond, but if the is none so narrow even in these most excellent 
land was unfit for cultivation or already pre-empted lands. John Bell had (me hundred acres laid out 
for hay privileges the width often exceeded the in one strip because he preferred to take his first 
average of thirty-three or thirty-four rods bv ten, and second divisions together, the homestead of 

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sixty and tlic second division ol foity acres or its 
equivalent. Beyond this homestead the regu- 
larity of the plan of allotment is broken and 
the farms are laid out in such ligures as the nature 
of the ground would best allow. The lantl north 
of John Bell's lot was laid out chiefly for second 
divisions and amendments, but it appears from 
records of roads and subsequent history of the 
town that most of these pieces of land have been 
occupied at some time bv persons who i)uilt houses 
upon them and made homesteads of them, al- 
though at present they are mostly deserted and 
only the marks of former cultivation are apparent 
in old field walls, garden spots, stumps of orchard 
trees, wells, and stone foundations for houses and 
barns. 

On June 17, 1719, the town ordered a sawmill 
to be built upon Beaver river and entered into an 
agreement with Robert Boyce, James Gregg, 
Samuel Graves and Joseph Simonds, whereby they 
should have the privilege of the river from the 
pond downward to the bottom of the falls, but 
James Gregg alone had the right of building the 
gristmill. The sawmill was built about where 
Wallace W. Poor's sawmill stands and had an acre 
of ground for a mill yard for storing boards and 
lumber. The gristmill was not far from the site of 
the jiresent gristmill of Leando Hardy and Gregg's 
house on the south side of the road as it turns 
eastward by the gristmill. These men were allowed 
certain parcels of land as rewards for undertaking 
to supply the wants of the settlers in respect to 
lumber and corn meal and other meals at fixed 
prices. It is seen in reading over the allotment of 
lands that James Gregg had a forty-acre lot laid 
out to him in October of the next year on the 
northerh' sidi' of the river opposite to his home- 
stead and the mill sites, and that parcel of land 
covered the greater part of the space now occupied 
by Derry Village; on the river side it joined upon 
his ])rivilege and the margin by the river which he 
used for a log yard, the latter being in the vicinity 
of the spot now occupied by tiie factory of Benja- 
min Chase. Robert Boyce had also a forty-acre 
parcel allotted to him, for similar reasons imme- 
diately west of that allotted to' fames Gregg. The 
actions of the town are nol alwa\s understood, for 
it often appears that verbal agreements were en- 



tered into that never obtained the confirmation of 
a vote. Some agreement had been made with one 
William Gregg to give him a gristmill lot, but an 
indignation meeting was held upon the 4th day of 
April, 1720, and the resolution was passed that 
William Gregg for good reasons should not have 
the gristmill lot that was intended for him nor 
any other interest in the town of Nutfield. At a 
general town meeting held June 8, i 720, there was 
a resolution that John Hunter shall not have a lot 
in this town. Some of these proceedings appear 
to have been arbitrary and actuated by party spirit 
and are fully equal to the average wrangling over 
rights and titles in the frontier settlements of the 
newer west of the ])resent generation. 

As a specimen of the records in laying out 
the Aikens Range the following is typical of all : 

Nutfield July 1720. A lot being laid out to William Aiken 
in the double range lying on the west of Beaver river containing 
sixty acres, its bounds and measures are as followeth : beginning 
at a small pine tree marked, from thence running a due north- 
north-west line thirty-one rods to another pine tree marked from 
thence running a due north-east line three hundred and twenty 
rods and bounding all the way upon Edward Aiken's lot unto a 
stake set up near a small brook, from thence to another stake 
near the same brook marked running a south-south-east line 
thirty-one rods, from thence running a due south-east line three 
hundred and twenty rods and joining all the way upon James 
Aiken's lot unto the pine tree first mentioned, together with an 
interest in the common or undivided lands of the said township 
equal to other lots in the said town. fames McKeen, Robert 
Wear, James Gregg, John Goffe, Committee. Recorded this 
2nd of August 1720. Pr. John Goffe. 

Town Cieik. 

The description of William Aiken's homestead 
is such that the location of both Edward and James 
Aiken is known. The two western corners of this 
lot were marked b\- blazing pine trees. One ac- 
quainted with the soil of that locality is not sur- 
prised, although no indications of pine are seen 
at present within the limits of the farm ; in reality 
no forest remains upon any part of the land. 

The Aikens were widely connected by mar- 
riages and remained for many generations upon 
tiie same homesteads. Many living persons were 
contemporary with the latest generation of the 
Aikens that dwelt upon their ancestral lands, and 
many anecdotes are told of their earlier generations 
illustrative of the habits and personal jieculiarities 
t)l the race that irave a name to the ranffc. The 



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name Aikcns Range was not oriven at the time the 
land was laid out to them and their neighbors, hut 
in a few months there were so many reasons for 
distinguishing the two double ranges, and also the 
two parts of the same double range, that the two 
parts were named from prominent men in either part 
and the term Double Range became restricted to 
the pair of ranges lying southeast of Beaver river, 
and the two lying northwest of the river ceased to 
be associated together or called the double range. 

The Bell family continued to live upon the 
original homestead until the close of the first quar- 
ter of the present century, and the last representa- 
tive of the name living and dying upon the spot is 
remembered by some of the present inhabitants of 
the town. 

The town records furnish numerous facts con- 
cerning the births, marriages, and deaths of the 
settlers in this range, and histories of these and 
neighboring towns contain abundant material for 
very complete genealogical sketches of these old 
familiar characters. The long residence of the 
Todds upon their original homestead and the dis- 



tinctions earned bv some of the men in the wars of 
the country have served to fix forever in the mem- 
ory of the living and perhaps to the coming genera- 
tions the abode of the Todds. The John Wallace 
homestead has made a deep impression upon the 
memory of manv on account of the noble elm 
trees that have been allowed to grow up around 
the buildings and the ample yard or lawn in front 
with so many associations of gentle deeds and 
gentle people. Many young people have received 
inspirations from the examples of Christian men 
and women that have moved and had their being 
among the quiet shades of those ancestral walks. 
All roads led to the great Canadian settle- 
ments that were older than those of the New 
Hampshire Province, and the settlers travelled be- 
tween these, trusting to the friendlv guidance of 
the Indians. In the vague geographical knowledge 
of the times and the real uncertainty of territorial 
boundaries the early settlers came to speak of all 
the northern parts of the province and even of the 
grant on which thev lived as Canada. To add to 
this confusion of terms there was an emicrrant 




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nanu'd R()l)crt Kcnm'il\-, who had received an 
alh)tmcnt of land in the northwestern part of tlie 
town. A road was laid out passing his land and 
house ; others settled along- that road and had 
adjoining lands until bv some accident the road 
was called Kennedy street, and therefrom began a 
series of clerical errors. The street was Canada 
street and even the man's name appears to have 
undergone the same transformation. As three 
ranges of lands or lots were survevcd through this 
region, the distinction obtained of naming them 
Canada West, Canada Middle, and Canada East 
Range. Then there came into the nomenclature 
of the township ihe term Canada Great Swam]), 
to include a vast region that was almost inacces- 
sible and is of little value now. 

From James Gregg's sawmill and gristmill 
there were two roads leading nortb.erlv, not includ- 
ing the English Range road. One led directly 
through the Coghrans' lands, and the walls along 
the sides of this road are partly standing near 
the Ladd house, or the site of the old Iloyt build- 
ings. The other led through the Aikens Range. 
The Coghran road led oyer the Ramsey dam and 
into former Indian trails that took the same gen- 
eral direction towards the interior, and by way of 
the Amoskeag Falls where the fishing interests 
appear to have centred for a hundred years. 
The Aiken road has remained without change, 
and a transcript of the record of its laying out is 
here presented : 

Londonderry Novbr. 6, 1723. Laid out by the selectmen 
a straight road in the west part of this town, beginning at tlie 
north side of John Bell's homestead lot where the old road now 
comes on the north side of the said Bell's house, and on the 
north of the fence, across Andrew Todd's lot, and Benjamin \S\\- 
son's lot, and across John Wallace's lot continuing on the north 
side of the aforesaid fence where the path now is, and so acrois 
Edward Aiken's lot, and turning a little more easterly across 
William Aiken's lot and James Aiken's lot, the said road 
to be continued across the aforesaid lots four rods wide, 
and then slanting upon Robert Boyce's land, as the path 
is now until an oak tree marked on the line between 
the said Boyce and James Gregg, and so running along 
said line till it come to a swamp, and then turning all ujjon 
Boyce till it cross the said swamp, and then to turn to the 
said line till it come to another swamp, then to turn upon Mr. 
Gregg's land till the bridge over Beaver brook, below the said 
Mr. Gregg's gristmill, the said road to be two rods wide from 
the coming on Boyce's land to the sa:d bridge, this by order of 



the selectmen. Samuel Moore, John Blair. Benjamin Wilson, 
Robert Boyce, Selectmen. Recorded this 13th day of Sei)teni- 
ber 1723. Per John MacMurphy, 

Totvn Clerk. 

The wall or fence along one side of the Aiken 
road, already there before the laying out of the 
road, was a necessity in keeping cattle out of the 
meadows that were already appropriated within 
every one of these lots. It is quite probable that 
the laying out of the road was a very formal trans- 
action and was merely the lesfal establishment of 
the bounds of a road that was already in constant 
use and indis])ensable. As now, there was a high- 
way the entire length of William Aiken's home- 
stead upon the line between his farm and Edward 
Aiken's. This road crossed the Coghran road and 
continued through the lands of John, Samuel, and 
Janet McKeen, and through Robert McKecn's lot 
and joined with that other road that came from the 
English Range at the southeast corner of Joseph 
Kidder's fence and ran along by the pond and 
brocjk to the sawmill and gristmill below the falls. 

There was a meeting-house erected upon the 
Aikens Range that had a short but significant 
history. The site was upon the northerly side of 
the road leading from Mrs. Elizabeth H. Karr's 
house to that of I""rank P. Bradford and on the land 
of the latter upon the brow of a little hill. In the 
space covered by this map three meeting-houses 
have been erected, two of which remain standing. 
The changes that have occurred on the lots of 
James Gregg and John Boyce cannot be described 
in this general review, but require separate treat- 
ment, and will most naturally come in the fuller 
accounts of industries, business, homes, families, 
and ofenealoofical sketches. 



DR. WILLIAM JOHNSON CAMPBELL 
was born at the old homestead, " Campbell 
Springs," Francestown, N. H., July 30, 1820. His 
early education was received in Francestown and 
in Nashua. Lie then entered the Harvard Medi- 
cal School, from which he graduated with honors 
in the class of 1842, thus receiving his dijiloma at 
the age of twenty-two years. I'rom this time until 
his death he was in the active practice of his pro- 
fession, five years in his native town and twenty- 



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seven years in the more enlarijed field of usefulness 
in the town of Londonderry. Dr. Camphcll was 
twice married, the first time in 1844, to Miss Sarah 
A. Cutter, daughter of the Hon. Benjamin Cutter 
of Jaffrey, N. H. Mrs. Campbell died in 1846, 
and on Nov. 15, 1849, Dr. Campbell was married 
to Miss Charlotte A. M. Philbrick, daughter of 
Nathan Philbrick of Weare, N. H. His widow 
and five children survive him. It is needless to 




DR. WILLIAM JOHNSON CAMPBELL. 

say that the ancestry of the Campbell familv is 
above reproach. The family can be traced back 
over two hundred years and numbers among its 
members many who were distinguished in the his- 
tory of Scotland. Dr. Camjibeirs grandfather 
fought at the battle of Bunker Hill, and continued 
in the army until the close of the war. His father 
was in the war of 1812 and was major of Cook's 
regiment of Hillsborough county. 



TI GRACE GREELEV, the most distinyuishec 



n 



of American newspaper men, was descended 



from old Nuffield stock, though not a nati\e of 



Londonderry, having been born just over the line 
in Amherst. The following characteristic letter 
from him was written to Rev. Edward L. Parker, 
while the latter was preparing his History of Lon- 
donderry, and possesses so much genealogical and 
other interest that it is here published for the first 
time : 

New York, Sept. 25, 1849. 

Dear Sir: I have your letter of the 17th this moment, 
and must give it a hurried answer at once, as I leave town for 
several days tomorrow, and my letters that get behind are pretty 
certain to remain unanswered. 

I will do what I can to promote the success of your enter- 
prise. I think it will be best, however, to invite all to communi- 
cate directly with you, as my correspondence is so large that it is 
very badly neglected, and I should not like to be the means of 
your losing anything transmitted, whether of information or en- 
couragement. 

I can give you personally very little aid in your work. 
Genealogiesnever interested me — I think we have other work to 
do than trace our ancestors — but your enterprise has noble aims 
and must have good issues. I was not born in Londonderry, but 
in Amherst, the first house in the township on the old road from 
Bedford Meeting-House. But my parents were both from Lon- 
donderry, and most of their parents before them. You may 
learn most of the Greeleys by a letter to Deacon Samuel 
Greeley of Boston, who is of the Wilton branch of the family. Col. 
Joe Greeley of Nashua (a cousin of my father) is probably also 
well versed in family history. My two grandfathers died within 
a few rods of each other in Londonderry (the High Range, near 
the west side of the town). Grandfather Zaccheus Greeley died 
at his son John Greeley's, who still lives there. Grandfather was 
94 years old when he died, some three years ago. His father 
was also named Zaccheus, and was a trader and lumber dealer 
(a rogue, I have heard) in what is now Hudson. He lived to about 
70, My impression is that the family came over quite early, and 
first settled in Sahsbury, wherever that may be. My branch of 
it has generally hung about the Merrimack and Nashua, and I 
have an impression that Capt. Zaccheus Lovell, or Lovewell, 
who commanded and was killed in a famous Indian fight long ago, 
was an ancestor of mine. Both " Zaccheus '' and " Lovell '" are 
freely used as Christian names in our family. John Greeley, my 
only uncle now in Londonderry, knows considerable, though not 
so much as he thinks he does. As he lives by the side of John 
Woodburn, who now holds the land allotted to the first Wood- 
burn in the original settlement of the town, I think it might be 
worth your while to look over there some day. 

My grandmother on my father's side was Esther Senter, of 
an old Londonderry family, now mainly scattered away. 

The Woodburns you already know. My grandfather was 
David, father of John, who now holds the farm. I think my 
great-grandfather's name was John, but you will easily learn. 

My grandmother was Margaret Clark, whose mother (I think) 
came over a girl with the original emigration or soon after. She 
was of the family of Rev. Lieut. Clark, whose mingled clerical 



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and military character is already widely known. I believe the 
Clarks are nearly all away now. My grantlmother died some 
55 to 60 years ago, and her husband married again — a Jane 
Caldwell or McAlister, who survived him, but is also long 
dead. But my great-grandmother (who was a Clark before 
she was a Woodburn) was a woman of remarkable intelli- 
gence, and she gave the family history to my mother very 
fully and vividly. Mother still lives (address Clymer, Chau- 
tauqua Co.. N. Y.), but is broken down in mind and body, 
and I fear she would not be able to write anything that would be 
worth having. Perhaps her sister (Mrs. John Dickey, two miles 
north of old Londonderry Meeting-House) could give you some 
facts respecting the Clarks as well as VVoodburns (though the 
former only have been notable), but I never heard her speak on 
the subject. But there is a Judge Clark, now residing in New 
Haven, Conn., who is full of the matter, and you ought to write 
him. He can really help you, and will be very glad to do it. 
I forget his first name, but there is no other Judge Clark in 
New Haven. 

There can be no doubt that your book will sell. There are 
at least 50,000 people now alive who claim descent from Lon- 
donderry. Yours, Horace Greeley. 

Rev. E. L. Parker, Derry, N. H. 

P. S. — Your Prospectus don't say what your book is to cost. 
Put me down as subscribing for five copies. Don't forget to notice 
the swarming of the old hive to Vermont, setthng Londonderry, 
Windham, etc., in that state. The Woodburns are mainly there 
now. I saw several of them last month. 



JOSHUA A. MOAR was born in Peterborough, 
N. H., Nov. 10, 1814. He was third son of 
Timothy and Betsey (Hopkins) Moar, whose family 
consisted of twelve children. His early life was 
spent in his native town, and his later boyhood in 
Milford, N. H., where the family for a long time 
resided. In early manhood he went to Boston 
and applied himself to the study of medicine, but 
instead of entering the profession he was led to 
pursue another course, and later in life established 
a h(jme in Londonderry. He was married Aug. 6, 
1837, to Lovina Witherspoon, the ceremony being 
performed by Rev. Rollin H. Ncale of Boston. 
Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Moar, 
all daughters. The eldest, Mary A., was married 
to Henry Goodwin, whose sketch is given else- 
where in the present work. Five of the children 
survive the father, whose death occurred Sept. 26, 
1872. Mrs. Moar died Dec. 26, 1882. Mr. Moar 
was a tender husband and father, a kind antl genial 
neighbor, an honored townsman, and a Christian 
gentleman. In him affability was blended with 
firmness, and, ever conscious of human frailty, he 



sought to realize the highest ideals of human 
character. His devotion to religious principles 
was no less marked than his love for his fellow- 
man. In the Methodist church and society he 
worked with an earnestness wliich was the result 




JOSHUA A. MOAR. 

of continuous consecration to the Master's service. 
Hospitality was an especial characteristic of his 
nature, and he found great delight in the com- 
panionship of his friends. The genial and whole- 
some influence of his kindly and upright life will 
Ion Of remain. 



PLAIN SPEAKING, even to a clergyman, 
was the custom among the blunt Scotch 
settlers of Nutfield. If they had anything to say, 
they never beat about the bush. It is related of 
one of the early ministers — tradition has kindly 
concealed his identity — that after passing a long 
and laborious day in parochial visits, he rode up 
toward evening to the house of one of his elders. 
He had, as a matter of course, been urged at every 
dwelling to partake of the stimulants which were 
then considered indispensable, and, between fatigue 
and the excessive hospitality of his parishioners, 
he found it difficult to keep himself upright in the 
saddle. The elder's keen eye took in the situation. 
" Won't ye light doun, parson," said he, " and come 
in and get something to eat ? For I perceive ye've 
had enough to drink already !" 



THE HOVEY FAMILY. 



THE earliest tradition of the name of Hovey in 
America, as remembered by the descendants, 
is the arrival of three brothers who came from 
England and settled in New England, one in Mas- 
sachusetts, one in Vermont, and one in Connecticut. 
They were young men, all mechanics, and soon 
reared families and made reputations ot sterling 
character and acquired an inlluence which has 
been sustained by all their descendants. The 
earliest recorded date of a l)irth in the family name 
in this country is that of Samuel Hovey, Jr., born 
in Windham, Conn., March 7, 1743. Joseph 
Hovey was !)orn at Ipswich, Mass., Dec. 17, 1762, 
ami was descentled from the brother who settled 
in that state. He was a sea captain; he located in 
Londtmderrv and died on his farm near Derry 
Depot, where the late John Merrill lived and died. 
His children were : Joseph, Jr., John, Isaac, James, 
Sallie, Betsey, Lucretia, Charlotte, Eunice, Robert, 
and Charles. Joseph, Jr., dietl at the same place. 
He left two sons and two daughters : Joseph, Wil- 
liam, Paulina (Mrs. Merrill), and Sarah. John was 
a mechanic; he married Abigail Dustin, and was 
the owner of three places in Londonderry, — one 
in the Crowell neighborhood, the Joslin farm near 
Derry Village, and the farm at the Baptist church 
(the Corning settlement). He moved to Marietta, 
O., in 1839 and died there in 1851. His wife died 
in that place in 18S4. Eight children were born 
to them : John D. (who was a teacher in western 
Ohio), Albert G. (who went to Oregon in 1850), 
Milton (architect and builder, deceased, Marietta, 
Ohio), James B. (merchant in Marietta), Frank S. 
(merchant and accountant, died in Oregon), George 
T. (architect and builder in Marietta), Abbie D., 
the youngest (Mrs. Sprague of Marietta), and 
Mary W. (the oldest of the children, married Rev. 
Dr. Mather of Delaware, O.). Isaac Hovey was a 
physician at Atkinson, N. H. He left one son, 
Isaac. James, who drsd in Boston, left one son, 
James, deceased in llbnois. Sallie married E. Dan- 
forth. Lucreti^ and Charlotte remained unmar- 
ried. Eunice married a Mr. Gouch of Boston, and 
Betsey was also married. Robert and Charles left 
families in New England. 



Albert G., son of John and Al)igail (Dustin) 
Ilovev, was born in Londonderry in 18 — . His 
father, who was a farmer, carpenter, contractor and 
builder, was a very able and energetic man. He 
constructed several of the principal l)uildings in 
Lonilonderrv, including the Baptist church, and 
had a wide reputation as a master at his trade and 
a man of scrujHilous integrity. His wile, .Abigail 
Dustin, who was a highly educated woman for her 
time, died at the age of ncarh' ninety at Marietta, O. 
Albert G. Hovey attended the common schools of 
his native town, and among his companions at the 
Eakin schoolhouse, near Derry Village, he well 
remembers the names o( Eakin, Ealev, Carr, Carl- 
ton, Cheney, Belloa, Perkins, Page, McMurphy, 
and others. At the Barclay school his school- 
mates included Adams, Dickey, Boise, Watts, 
McGregor, Perkins, Annis, Anderson, Crowell, 
and Brickett, and at the Corning school there were 
Corning, Pillsbury, Jackson, Nesmith, Davis, Mor- 
rison, Annis, and Richardson. Mr. Hovey went 
with his parents to Ohio in 1839, and in 1850 he 
went to the Pacific coast, locating in Oregon, 
where he has since resided. Although he has 
never sought honors or office, he has held many 
places of public trust in his adopted state. He 
has been clerk of the Courts, mayor of the city of 
Eugene, state senator, three times a delegate to 
Republican national conventions, and in 1892 was 
appointed by President Harrison on the Board of 
Visitors to the United States Military Academy at 
West Point. Mr. Hovey is a member of the Board 
of Regents and treasurer of the State University of 
Oregon. He is president and chief owner of the 
Lane County Bank, established at Eugene, Oregon, 
in 1882. Mr. Hovey is married and has two sons 
and one daughter. Although warmlv attached to 
his adopted state, he retains a fond remembrance 
of his native town and the highest regard for all 
her peojile, both early and later acquaintances. In 
a recent letter to the publisher of this work he 
says : " I beg to say that so far as the soil of Lon- 
donderry is concerned, it is the poorest country 
I have ever known inhabited by such a noble 
people." 



THE OLD WILSON HOUSE, 



IN the northeastern ])art of Londonilern', about 
one fourth of a mile from the railway station 
called Wilson's, stands the old Wilson homestead, 
(twned and oeeu|)ied In' John Pinkerton Wilson 




1733; was married tu Jane Thompson in 1762, 
and ten children were horn to them. Robert Wil- 
son resided in this house until June 14, 1825, 
when he dropped dead by the old well-curb, at 
the aire of ninety-two years. He was known as 
" Colonel Wilson," To each of his children he 
o-ave a tract of lanil. To Thomas, his sixth 
child, he willed the old homestead. Thomas 
was born and li\ed on this place until his death, 
which occurred in i<S63, at the age of eighty- 
seven years. He married Rebecca Pinkerton in 
iSoi, and hve children were born to them, two 
of whom grew to manhood. Robert, the eldest 
son, was born March 4, 1809, and went South 
in early life, settling in Mississippi, where he re- 
sided until his death in 1883, his age being 
nearl\ seventy-five years. The other son, John 
Pinkerton, who is the present owner of the 



JOHN PINKKRTON WILSON. 

and famih'. Tliis house, being one of the oldest in 
town, was built jirior to 1730 bv James Wilson, 
great-grandfather ol the present owner. In those 
days the highways were few and far between, there 
being only a foot-path to the nearest sawmill, one 
mile away. Mr. Wilson was obliged to l)ring on 
his back the boards for the construction of his 
house. The frame was hewn from trees cut on 
and around the site selected for the building, some 
. of the timbers being two feet square. The chim- 
ney was built on a foundation of stone twelve feet 
square, and made with three fireplaces, one of 
which was large enough for a log six feet long. 
At the time of building this house Mr. Wilson 

owned a vast tract of land. It is not known of house, was born Jan. 23, 18 iS. He married 
how many children his family consisted, but the Adeline Annis in 1S44. Nine children were born 
home place was willed to his son Rol)ert in the to them, four of whom dietl when quite young, 
year 1762. Robert was born in this house in Robert, the eldest son, tlietl in 1884, at the age 

7 lOI 




MRS. JOHN PINKERTON WILSON. 



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of forty-two years. The remaining four children, 
two sons and two daughters, are now living in 
Londonderry : George W., Abbie D. (wife of 
Clarence N. Garvin), Belinda M. (wife of Frank A. 
Benson), and David Brewster. Mr. Wilson has 
also nine grandchildren living. Five generations 
have been born in the old Wilson house. 



HOW WE KILLED THE BEAR.— This 
expression, which has passed into current 
speech and become almost proverbial, is said upon 
the authority of tradition to have originated in 
Nutfield. In the so-called Canada Great Swamp 
of Londonderry there were formerly bears, and the 
early inhabi- 
tants suffered 
greatly from 
the attacks of 
the animals 
upon their cat- 
tle. The two 
James Wilsons 
— Black J i m 
and Curlv Jim, 
so named on ac- 
count of their 
characteristic 
hair — operated 
a sawmill on 
the upper 
course of the 
Aiken brook, 
and one day 

they saw a bear a short distance from the mill 
travelling into thicker woods. Thev picked up 
axes and followed the animal and saw it enter a 
den, visible to this day, composed of rocks and 
tree roots. One of the men mounted the top of 
the den and with an axe in hand waited for the 
bear to come out, while the other hurried down to 
the first house south of the woods, where Irving 
Coburn now lives, but then occupied by one Josse- 
lyn, and asked him to take his gun and shoot a 
bear that was driven into a den in the woods. 
Josselyn declined to go with his gun, declaring he 
would endanger his life by attempting to kill a 
bear with a common fowling piece. Wilson suc- 
ceeded in borrowing the gun for himself and 



started back for the den, followed at a considerable 
distance by Josselvn. The bear had not attempted 
to leave its hiding place, and was killed at the 
first shot. For some minutes Black and Curly 
did not approach nearer the opening of the den, 
and Josselyn stood a le)ng distance away, shout- 
ing : "Is the bear killed? Is he dead?" and 
could not be induced to come near until the 
Wilsons had pulled the dead bear from the den. 
Then he came to their assistance with immense 
exhibition of pleasure. The bear weighed about 
four hundred pounds, and the meat was sent 
around among the neighbors, Josselyn himself re- 
ceiving a large share, and whenever he met them 

he would tell 
the storv over 
and over of 
" how we killed 
the bear." 




IIIK (ILD WILSON HOUSE. 



/^HURCH 
^-^ discipline 
was a grave 
matter in the 
early days. In 
I 735 the town 
voted that if a 
man was found 
si ee pi n g i n 
c h u r c h he 
should be pun- 
ished by sitting 
in the stocks, 
though no peiialtv was provided for dull and prosy 
sermons. One church member for disrespect of 
his father was publicly rebuked and exhorted to 
honor his parents ; another was censured for using 
" unjustifiable expressions of a profane character " ; 
another, for having found an axe in the road and 
not leaving it at the next tavern, as the law required; 
and still another, for reproachful words respecting 
the minister. It is a curious fact that there is no 
record of thcdiscipliningof achurch member forget- 
ting drunk, although drunkenness was so common. 

TOMATOES were first raised in Londonderry 
in 1822 by the widow of Rev. William Mor- 
rison, who brought the seed from Octorara, Penn. 



NUTFIELD IN THE REVOLUTION. 



SPRUNG from a hardy race of warriors who for 
generations had battled for civil or religious 
rights, and in whom the love of liberty amounted 
to a passion, the descendants of the Nutfield 
settlers could not have been otherwise than in- 
tensely patriotic in the Revolution. Indeed, the 
first act of open resistance to British authority and 
arms in the colonies was committed by a little 
band of Londonderry men. Long before the battle 
at Lexington, while the British troops were sta- 
tioned in Boston, four soldiers deserted and joined 
friends in Londonderry. Their hiding place having 
been revealed by a Tory, an English officer with a 
detachment of soldiers was sent to arrest them. 
The deserters were soon found and marched back 
toward Boston, but the fact quickly became known 
in the town, and a party of young men, led by 
Captain James Aiken, pursued and overtook them 
a few miles from Haverhill. Passing the British 
soldiers on the road, the captain suddenly drew up 
his men in front of them and commanded the ofli- 
cer to deliver his prisoners. The order was obeyed, 
and the four soldiers returned with their liberators 
to Londonderry and became residents of the town, 
no further attempts being made for their arrest. 
That was the spirit manifested bv the men of Nut- 
field before the outbreak of hostilities, and the 
warlike frenzy that seized the town when the news 
came from Lexington in April, 1775, can easily be 
imagined. Men stopped their work instantlv to 
carry the word from one section <»f the town to 
another, and in a few hours all who could bear 
arms were assembled on the common, near the 
meeting-house. A large volunteer company was 
formed from the two companies of militia and 
started at once to join the American tro()j)s near 
Boston, their accoutrements, ammunition, and jiro- 
\isions being forwarded to them afterward. Of 
this company George Reid, who subsequently be- 
came distinguished, was chosen captain ; Abraham 
Reid, first lieutenant ; James Anderson, ensign and 
second lieutenant ; John Patten, quartermaster ser- 
geant ; Daniel Miltimore, John Ncsmith, Robert 
Barnet, John Mackey, sergeants ; James McCluer, 
Robert Boyes, Joshua Thomjison, George McMur- 
phy, corporals ; Robert Burke, drummer ; Thomas 



Inglis, fifer. The privates in the company were : 
Matthew Anderson, Robert Adams, Samuel Ayres, 
Hugh Alexander, John Anderson, Alexander 
Brown, William Boyd, John Campbell, Thomas 
Campbell, Peter Christie, Solomon Collins, Ste- 
phen Chase, William Dickey, James Duncan, 
Samuel Dickey, John Ferguson, John Head, Asa 
Senter, Samuel Houston, Jonathan Holmes, Peter 
Jenkins, John Livingstone, Hugh Montgomery, "^ 
John Morrison, James Morrison, Joseph Mack, 
Martin Montgomery, Robert McMurphy, William 
McMurphy, William Moore, Robert Mack, David 
McClary, Archibald Mack, James Nesmith, James 
Ncsmith, Jr., William Parker, Joshua Reid, William 
Rowell, Thomas Roach, Abel Senter, Samuel 
Thompson, John Vance, Hugh Watts, Thomas 
Wilson, John Patterson, Henry Parkinson, Samuel 
Stinson, John Smith, Richard Cressey, James 
Moore, and six men from Windham. 

In August, 1776, a company, commanded by 
Captain John Nesmith, was raised in which were 
thirty-nine men from Londonderry. Of these the 
new enlistments were : Samuel Cherry, ensign ; 
Solomon Todd, sergeant ; Michael George, drum- 
mer; Timothy Dustin, fifer, and John McClurg, 
William Rogers, Robert McCluer, James Ewins, 
Robert Boyes, Jr., John Orr, Samuel Rowell, John 
Humphrey, John Cox, Edward Cox, John Ander- 
son, Jr., Thomas White, Ephraim White, James 
Moor, Samuel Layers, John Ramsey, David George, 
Jonathan Gregg, Abner Andrews, Alexander 
Craige, William Colby, Patrick Fling, William 
Adams, James Boyes, Jr., Jonathan George, 
Charity Killicut, and John Lancaster, privates; 
with these additional enlistments in December, 
1776: Jonathan Wallace, William Lyon, Moses 
Watts, Thomas McClary, Jesse Jones, Arthur 
Nesmith, John Todd, Benjamin Nesmith, James 
Hobbs, Nathan Whiting, Benjamin Robinson, 
Dayid Marshall, William Burroughs. 

In 1777 and 1778 about fifty men enlisted, 
many of whom had previously seen service ; in 1779 
there were seventeen enlistments ; in 1780, thir- 
teen ; in I 78 1, thirty. The town voted, in March, 
1777, to "raise a bounty of eighteen pounds ster- 
hng for each man that is now wanting to make up 



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our complement of men," and in April the bounty 
was increased to thirt\- pounds sterling. In Jan- 
uary, 1778, the selectmen were authorized to pro- 
vide for the families of soldiers belongins; to the 
town. During the entire struggle of eight vears, 
Londonderry not only furnished her full propor- 
tion of regular troops, but the repeated emergen- 
cies which called for special aid were met with 
readiness. According to the census taken in 1778, 
there were in the town of Londonderry four hun- 
dred and four males between the ages of sixteen 
and fifty, and sixty-six of these were in the army, — 
a larger number than from any other town in the 
county. Portsmouth sent only fifty men, and 
there was but one town in the state which contrib- 
uted more soldiers than Londt)nderry ; that town 
was Amherst, which sent eighty-one. London- 
derry paid for bounties a larger sum than any 
other town, and it is believed that, including volun- 
teers and recruits for the continental line, she ac- 



tually furnished a greater number of soldiers than 
any other town. Her list of distinguished officers, 
headed by Generals Stark and Reid, includes 
Colonel William Gregg, Captain Daniel Reynolds, 
and Lieutenants McClary and Adam Taylor. 
Lieutenant McClary, who was killed at Benning- 
ton, was the only man from Londonderry who lost 
his life in battle during the war. 

THE FIRST ROAD in Nutfield, joining the 
two villages, is thus referred to in the records 
of Feb. 13, 1720: "A by-way laid out from the 
bridge below the sawmill, from thence running 
sou-easterly by Mr. Gregg's ht)us, from thence 
turning more easterly, along by James Clark's new 
hous, & so up by James Neasmath's & so along as 
the old way as far as the east corner of Robert 
Wear's fence." Dec. 16, 1725, the selectmen in- 
dorsed the road as laid out, and yoted that it be 
"two rods wiile & to lie open & common without 




SOMP: LWTHULIC institutions in MANCHESTER. 

RESIDENCE OF BISHOP BRADLEY. ST. rATRICIc's ORPHANAGE FOR GIRLS. 

MOUNT ST. Mary's academy. st. Joseph's orphanage for boys. 



WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



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Sfatcs & bars." Abnut tlic sanu- linu' the Entjlish 
Ranyc road was laid out, and in 1724 tiie road to 
" iVmmasccesjij Falls" was laid out by Captain 
James Gres;"; and William Aiken. The roads from 
the East Church in Derry to the pond, and that 
running south by the cemetery, and also the high- 
way across the Double Range south of Westrun- 
ning brook were all laid out by the selectmen 
June I, 1723. The Aikens Range road, four rods 
wide across the Aiken lots and two rods wide 
through the village to the mill, was laid out Nov. 
6, 1723; the Chester road, Nov. 17, 1723; the 
highway between Derry village and the Depot, in 
1737; the Londonderry turnpike, in 1806; the 
road in Londonderry running east to meet the 
Aikens Range road, June 19, 1730; and the main 
road across Londonderry, east and west to Litch- 
field, in 1744 ; and from Dissmore's Corner north 
to the Baptist Church, in 1745. Some of the 
highways that were laid out were never built, and 
for years they were nothing more than bridle-paths. 



[AMES WEBSTER was born in Atkinson, 
^ N. H., Sept. 22, 1799. He was descended 
from sturdy New England stock that had inhabited 
that part of the country for many years. His 
father with his family, including the subject of 
this sketch, moved to Derry in 18 16, and purchased 
the farm in the southeastern part of the town 
known as the " W^ood place," which still remains 
in the possession of a grandson. James Webster 
was married Jan. 22, 1829, to Maria Eayrs of Dun- 
stable (now Nashua) at Newburyport, Mass., where 
the bride then lived. The newly married couple 
returned to the paternal home in Derry and con- 
tinued to reside there ever afterward. One half 
the property was deeded to James, who carried on 
the farm, sharing the house with his parents and 
one brother until their death. Nine children were 
born to him : James Henry, H. Maria, Charles P., 
Saraii A., George A., Ellen A., Mary F., Julia S., 
and John E. Two have died ; the others are mar- 
ried. The mother was born April 4, 1808, and 
died May 14, 1875. The father died Aug. 19, 1881. 
Such is the record of a most worthy and happy family 
life, uneventful though it was in great or strik- 
ing deeds. He was captain of a military comi)any, 



and the title always clung to liim. He never 
sought for office. He was a man of sturdy integ- 
rity, of genial manner, of dignified bearing, and 
sympathetic heart. He and his wife were mem- 
bers of the Congregational church for many years. 
Both were best known and appreciated in their 
happy home, but when they passed away there was 
a great void in neighborhood and town, recognized 
by a host of loving friends. His home was one of 
generous hospitality, from which no stranger was 



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JAMES WEBSTER. 

ever turned away hungry, and where the call of 
suffering was never unheeded. The loss of his 
wife, a devoted companion for more than forty-six 
years, was a blow from which Mr. Webster never 
recovered ; but with a fortitude born of true Chris- 
tian faith his native sunny temperament still 
lighted up his household. At a ripe old age he 
passed away, with lo\ing hands to minister t(j his 
wants, yielding up a life ricii in the fruitage of the 
good and true. 

T^llE LEACH LIBRARY in Lomlonderry 
i owes its origin to a fund of thiee thousand 
dollars bequeathed by David Rollins Leach, who 
was born in Londonderry, Aug. 8, 1806, and died 
at Manchester, April i, 1878. At its next annual 



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WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



meeting the town voted to accept the bequest, 
chose a board of nine trustees and authorized the 
selectmen to build an addition to the town hall for 
a library room. About one thousand books were 
on the shelves when the library was thrown open 
for use, Feb. 25, 1880, and since then about one 
thousand more have been added, making a very 
creditable and useful collection. There was a 




DAVID ROLLINS LEACH. 



social library of several hundred volumes, kept first 
at the store of William Anderson, in 1830, and 
transferred in 1834 to the house of Robert Mack. 
A few years later the books were sold at auction 
and the proceeds divided among the stockholders. 
In 1858, forty residents of the town purchased a 
small library of about two hundred volumes, which 
were later donated to the Leach library. 



r~\UR HOME JUBILEE.— A poem written 
^-^ by Lucinda J. Gregg and read by Rev. J. T. 

McCollom at the Londonderry celebration, 1S69: 

Let Nutfield today sound its merriest notes ! 
Let the hills and the vales catch the strain as it floats ! 
Ring out the loud echoes from mountain to sea, 
And rejoice in the day of our glad Jubilee I 



From the East, from the North, from the prairies afar. 
From the Pine Tree domains to the southern Lone Star, 
We wanderers come to the cherished home-fold, 
To unite in one song for the bright days of old. 

A song for the true, and a song for the brave. 
Who came from afar o'er the easterly wave ; 
One song for the lake on whose beautiful shore, 
Their wanderings ended, they worshipped of yore. 

Today we will sing of the brown homes they made. 
Where earnest hands toiled, and where loving hearts prayed 
And the home for the Sabbath, just over the way. 
The sacred old church, that's one hundred today. 

« In our jubilant song comes a sadder refrain ; — 
For the forms of the fathers we see not again. 
Ill their green-covered houses on yonder white hill. 
With the marble doors locked, they are sleeping so still ! 

In that glorious day when the sleepers ariee, 

W hen together we go to our home in the skies. 

It is then we shall know — but, oh ! never till the.i — 

How much we all owe to these brave, faithful men. 

Adown the long years comes a noble array : 
Ah ! many are found on Fame's roll-call today. 
From these valle}s and hills has an army of worth. 
Of talent and trust, gone to bless the wide earth. 

Of those left at home, there is many a name, 

All heroic, all noble, unspoken by Fame : — 

One sigh for the dead, — for the living, one song ! 

God bless the loved home-land that claims all the throng ! 

Then hail to old Deny ! its lake and its lea. 
Its beautiful stream winding down to the sea. 
Its wondrous old trees with the evergreen crest. 
Its fine, fertile fields, sloping green to the west ! 

All hail to old Nutfield ! whose broader expanse 
Our forefathers claimed as the years did advance ; 
We always shall love thee, wherever we roam, 
.And breathe out a prayer for our earliest home. 

But Time's speeding onward : how soon in its flight 

Will it bear us afar and away out of sight ! 

How ic^, on another centennial day. 

Will return and talk over the years sped away ! 

But we hope, oh ! we hope, when our earth-day is done. 
When our tent 's taken down at life's last setting sun, 
On the Plains all immortal, with glory untold. 
We shall sing of the days that can never grow old. 



HON. CYRUS A. SULLOWAY. 



HON. CYRUS A. SULLOWAY, son of man of the committee on elections durinfj his first 

Greeley and Betsey L. Sullo\va\-, was born term and twice subsequently as chairman of the 

in Grafton, June 8, 1839. His vouth was sj^ent judiciary committee. Upon his first entry into 

upon his father's farm, and his opportunities for legislative life he at once took commanding posi- 

acquirinir a liberal education were of that restricted tion as leader, which position he maintained with 

character common to New Hampshire farmer boys consummate ability during his entire career of legis- 

of that period. Bv his enterprise and zeal, how- lative experience. His cons])icuous service in this 



ever, he succeeded in 
supplementing his dis- 
trict school education 
bv an academic course 
at Colby Academy in 
New London. In 
1 86 1 he began the 
study of law with Pike 
cS: Barnard of Frank- 
lin, the senior mem- 
ber of which firm died 
while holding the of- 
fice of United States 
senator, and thejunior 
that of attornev-gen- 
eral of the state. Mr. 
Sullowav was admit- 
ted to the bar at Plv- 
mouth in November, 
1863, and soon there- 
after removed to Man- 
chester and entered 
into CO part n e rsh i p 
with Samuel D. Lord, 
under the firm name 
of Lord & Sulhnvay. 
This business copart- 
nership continued for 
ten years and was 
eminently successful, 
securing a wideclient- 




HON. CYRUS A. SUU.OWAV. 



capacity gave him 
wide fame and great 
popularity throughout 
the state. Always an 
active partisan in 
whatever he espoused, 
he entered into the 
heated controversies 
that agitated the legis- 
lature during his mem- 
bership, with zeal and 
enthusiasm and al- 
ways as the central 
figure of the most ex- 
cited controversy. In 
the fall of 1894 Mr. 
Sullowav received the 
unanimous Republi- 
can nomination for 
congress in the first 
district, and at once 
entered upon the can- 
vass with his charac- 
teristic ardor and im- 
petuosity, and the re- 
sult was his trium- 
|)hant election by more 
than 6000 plurality. 
This was the first test 
of his personal and 
political popularity be- 



age and a lucrative practice. Upon its dissolution fore so large a constituency, embracing one half 

Mr. Sulloway associated with himself Mr. E. M. of the state, and the outcome justified the high 

Topliff, under the firm name of Sulloway & Topliff. expectations which his friends have long enter- 

The practice of this firm has been very extensive, tained as to his strong hold upon the favor and 

and among the largest in the state. From 1873 good will of the people of the state. As a lawyer, 

to 1878 Mr. Sulloway was deputy collector of in- and especially as a jury advocate, Mr. Sulloway 

ternal revenue. He was a member of the legisla- has achieved a most pronounced success, and his 

ture in 1872, 'y^, '79, '91, and '93, serving as chair- future prospects, both political and professional, 

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oufjht to satisfy the most exactiiiij ambition. Mr. initials of the churches, were distributed to prevent 

Sulloway was married May 31, 1864, to Helen M., intruders. Long, narrow tables were spread in the 

daughter of Jonathan W. and Theodorah D. Fifield aisles, and sometimes three or four sittings, ar- 

of Franklin. One daughter, Belle H., was born July ranged according to age, would be necessary, pro- 

:;i, 1868. Mrs. Sulloway having deceased July 20, tracting the services until sunset. These seasons 

1892, Mr. Sullowav, on May 31, 1894, married were often attended with manv conversions. 
Miss Martha J. Webster of Haverhill, Mass. 



WORLDLY WISDOM and [iractical sagacity 
were prominent traits in the character of 
the Scotch Irishmen who settled Nutfield. 
Dealers in mythical corner lots and nebulous west- 
ern real estate and confidence men of every species 
wouUl have earned but a precarious livelihood 
among those alert, long-headed men. The advice 
of one of the elders to a young man who was about 
journeving into a new country is worthy to go 
with the celebrated counsels of Polonius to Laertes. 
The young man was to carry considerable silver 
moncv, and the elder said to him : " When ye 
come into a strange hoose, don't set doun your 
saddle-bags as if there was eggs in 'em, nor yet 
lling tliem doun so as to chink the coin ; but put 
them doun indifferently, in a corner where you can 
sec 'em, but ncx'er look at 'em." 



/^^OMM UNION SEASONS in the early days 
^ — ' of the Nut:field settlement were held only 
twice a vear and were occasions of great impor- 
tance to the church. In 1734 Mr. Thompson had 
seven hundred communicants present at one sea- 
son, the number including members of the church 
residing in other settlements and members of 
other churches. Communion seasons were pre- 
ceded l)y preaching on Thursday, Friday, and 
Saturday. Thursday was observed with great 
strictness as a sacramental fast-day, and any viola- 
tion of it was a serious matter. One church mem- 
ber was disciplined for spreading out hay to dry on 
a Thursday. The Monday following communion 
was a day of thanksgiving. 'Ihesc extra services 
gave rise to much preaching, requiring the aid of 
other ministers. Communicants from several 
churches, with their ministers and elders, often 
united in the sacrament on the Sabbath. Small 
pieces of metal called tokens, stamped with the 



WILLIAM PARKER CLARK, son of Dea- 
con William Danforth and Almira Eliza- 
beth (Dodge) Clark, was born in Derrv, April 30, 
1845. He was educated in the public and in select 
schools in the adjoining town of Auburn, after- 
ward taking a commercial course at Comers' Col- 
lege in Boston. In the spring of 1863 Mr. Clark 
went to Nashua, and worked on a farm the three 
following summers for Mr. George McOuesten, 
who took a kindly and salutary interest in his 
welfare, and whose influence upon him was as good 

as that of a parent. 
In October, 1865, 
he entered the ser- 
vice of Holt & 
McOuesten, Hour 
and grain dealers, 
in the Eaton build- 
i n g , R a i 1 r o a d 
square, and by con- 
stant attention to 
business he gained 
the confidence of 
his em plovers and 
became a member 
of the firm. In 
lateryears the busi- 
ness was trans- 
ferred to the store 
under the First Baptist Church, Main street, 
where it is still carried on under the firm 
name of McOuesten & Co., the firm consisting 
of Ezra P. Howard, William P. Clark, and 
Joshua W. Hunt. In 1868 Mr. Clark married 
Miss Elizabeth S. Davis of Dover, N. H. Three 
daughters have been added to the family : Lillian, 
Vennie Ethel, and Evangelyn May Clark. Mr. 
Clark has always taken a deep interest in pohtical 
affairs, being a Republican. He is also an active 
member of the First Congregational Church. 




WILLIAM PARKER CLARK. 



DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER. 



R 



r. REV. DENIS M. BRADLEY, first Catho- ship with threat executive ability and personal traits 

lie bishop of Manchester, was born in Ire- that have endeared him to hosts of non-Catholics, 

land Feb 25, 1846. When he w^as eig^ht years of and he has thus been able to allay much of the 

aire his mother came to America and with her five prejudice that has always existed in New Hamp- 

children settled in Manchester. After attending shire asjainst his religion. The first Catholic 

the Catholic schools of the town, the boy was sent church in the state was built in 1823 by Rev. 

to the College of the Holv Cross, Worcester, and Virgil H. Barber, a convert. Ten years later 

upon graduating from that institution he entered another church W'as erected at Dover, and for 

upon the study of theokigv in St. Joseph's Pro- twenty years these were the only Catholic churches 



vi ncial S e m i n a r y a t 
Trov, N. \'., and was 
there ordained to the 
priesthood June 3, 1871, 
by Rt. Rev. Bishop 
McOuaid of Rochester. 
Manchester at that 
time belonged to the 
diocese of Portland, 
and Bishop Bacon ap- 
pointed the young 
priest to the cathedral 
in the latter citv, where 
he remained during the 
lifetime of that prelate, 
serving during the last 
two vears as rector of 
the cathedral and chan- 
cellor of the diocese. 
He continued to dis- 
charge the same duties 
under Bishop Healey 
until June 16, 1880, 
when he was appointed 
pastor of St. Joseph's 
C h u re h, Manchester. 
Upon the erection of 




RT. REV. DENI.S M. BRADLEY. 



in New Hampshire. 
In 1847 Rev. John B. 
Daly, a Franciscan 
father, began a church 
in Manchester. The 
Sisters of Mercy, the 
first religious commu- 
nitv established in New 
Hampshire, came to 
Manchester under 
Mother Francis Warde, 
at the request of Rev. 
W'm. McDonald, in 
i860. At the time of 
Bishop Bradley's con- 
secration in St. Joseph's 
Church, which is now 
his cathedral, there were 
thirty-seven churches 
and chapels in the state, 
and thirty-eight priests. 
The Catholic popula- 
tion of New Hamp- 
shire was about 50,000, 
and there were 3,500 
pupils in the Catholic 
schools. In the eleven 



the state of New Hampshire into a separate dio- years of Bishop Bradley's administration the num- 
cese in 1884, Father Bradley was recommended ber of Catholics in the state has increased to 
for the new see by the bishops of New England nearly 90,000, and there are about 10,000 pupils in 
on account of his zeal and services in parochial the Catholic schools. The diocese contains thirty- 
duties and his experience in diocesan affairs, gained two parochial schools for boys and the same num- 
in Portland. He was accordingly appointed by ber for girls ; there are five high schools for boys, 
Pope Leo XIII and consecrated June 11,1884. six academies for young ladies, one college and five 
Under his wise administration the cause of Catho- orphan asylums. The other Catholic institutions 
licity has prospered wonderfully in New Hamp- in the state include six convents of brothers, 
shire. He combines the rare qualities of leader- twenty convents of sisters, three hospitals, four 

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homes for aa^cd women and three homes for work- In the spring- of 1S52 he moved with his })arents 
ing girls. There are eighty Catholic priests in the to Windham and operated a sawmill and eider 

press for thirteen years. 



state, fifty churches with resident priests, seven- 
teen missions connected with the church, two new 




ST. JOSEPH S CATHEDRAL, MANCHESTER. 

churches building, seventeen chapels and twenty- 
seven stations. It is doubtful if any other religious 
denomination can show such a rapid growth within 
so short a time. 



The mill was on the 
turnpike near a place of historic interest known as 
the Bessells Camp. In the winter of 1865 Mr. 
Seavey, in partnership with John S. Brown and 
Nathaniel II. Clark, erected a steam sawmill at 
Windham Junction, the first sawmill operated by 
steam in the town. The addition of cider presses 
and tanks completed the foundation of an industry 
tor Windham that has brought prosperity to the 
partners and materially enhanced the value of real 
estate in the vicinity and continues to encourage in- 
crease of population. Ordinarily from si.x to eight 




GEORGE EDWARD SEAVEY. 



GEORGE EDWARD SEAVEY, the son of 
Benjamin and Sarah (Coburn) Seavey, was 

born in Pelham June 20, 1839, and from his ear- 

liest years has been engaged in the operation 
of sawmills and cider presses. He parents had 
not the means of giving him any educational ad- men are employed in the mill yard, but at times the 
vantages, but he early learned by experience the numi)er is greatly increased. In the winter of 
principles of business and the value of money, pur- 1893-94 fiftv horses were required for the trans- 
chasing his first jackknife with money earned in portation of lumber ; at present twenty-four are in 
saving the wages of an assistant about the mills, C(jnstant use. The chief articles of manufacture 



WIL LET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



arc unplancd box boards, the amount of lumber 
converted into boards avcra^inti- one milHon feet 
annually for the last ten years. In the cider mak- 
ing season two hydraulic presses with a capacity of 
three hundred barrels in ten hours are used, and 
one of the tanks contains one hundred and fifty 
and the other seventy-five barrels. About 95 per 
cent of the cider is sold to be manufactured into 
vinegar. Over four thousand l)arrels of cider are 
annually made at this mill in Windham, and a 
single vinegar firm has received $100,000 worth of 
cider from this mill in the past twenty years. 

Mr. Seavey was married Nov. 10, 1868, to 
Mary Ballou, daughter of Edward and Isabella 
(McGregor) Ballou of Derry, who was born Feb. 
7, 1842. Her ancestry is traced back through suc- 
cessive generations of the MacGregors to the first 
settlers of Londonderrv, and the traditions of the 
family extend to the old eountrv, from which in 
1719 these pioneers received letters of intelligence 
from their relatives in Armagh and Antrim, Ireland. 
Mr. Seavey was selectman of Windham from 1879 
to 1 88 1 inclusive. In 1SS2 he represented his 
town in the State Legislature, and he has also 



served as supervisor for six vears, having been re- 
elected for the fourth term. 



SINCERITY was a striking characteristic of the 
men who settled Nutfield. They were called 
obstinate sometimes, and it was a Scotchman him- 
self who said : " It behooves a Scotchman to be 
right ; for if he be wrong, he be forever and eter- 
nall\- wrong." An anecdote is related of one of 
the descendants of the Nutfield Scotchmen which 
breathes the spirit of the first generation. He had 
been elected to the General Court from London- 
derry, and at the close of the session the friends of 
the presiding officer had prepared the usual com- 
plimentary resolution for him. The Londonderry 
member, it was well known, differed from that offi- 
cial in politics and religion, and even had doubts 
of his honesty. His friends, therefore, dreading to 
encounter the public opposition of the outspoken 
" gentleman from Londonderry," thought it pru- 
dent to show him the resolution in private, before 
it was offered. It was in the ordinary form, to 
present "the thanks of the assembly to the presid- 
ing oflicer for the dignity, ahilitv, and integrity 




GEORGE E. SEAVEY S RESIDENCE. 



U'/LLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



with which he had discharged his duties." The 
member from Londonderry perused the paper 
deliberatel3% and then remarked : •' There is hut 
one word in the resolution that I object to ; just 
strike out the little word intccgrity, and I will vote 
for the rest cheerfully." It was thought best to 
expunge the obnoxious word, and so the resolution 
stands recorded to this day. 



WILLIAM G. BAKER, son of John and 
Lucy (Gay) Baker, was born on the En- 
glish Range, Derry, June 9, 1845. He is a descend- 
ant of Robert Baker, who came from England 
early in the settlement of this country and settled 
in Beverly, Mass. He received a common school 




Brom field street. For the past few years he has 
been in the real estate business. He represented 
Ward 23, Boston (West Roxbury District), in the 
Legislature for two years, serving with much 
ability, and acting as clerk of the insurance com- 
mittee, clerk of the committee on public service, 
and as chairman of the committee on federal 
relations. His name has been often mentioned as 
candidate for state senator and also for alderman 
of the city, but on account of business interests he 
has refused to continue in political life. He is 
prominently identified with fraternal beneficiary 
societies, and is a member of the Royal Arcanum, 
the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and 
others. For about twenty years he has lived in 
that part of Ward 23, Boston, known as Egleston 
Square. He has three children : William W., 
Alice M., and Florence H. The son, William W., 
is now in Harvard College. 



T^HE BEAR AND THE SAWMILL— 

^ There is an anecdote in connection with the 
two James Wilsons and the second sawmill located 
upon the upper course of the Aiken brook, which 
may seem somewhat apocrvphal, but is neverthe- 
less well vouched for. The Wilsons, were accus- 
tomed to carrv their dinners to the mill and eat 
while sawing through a long log. One day tiiev 
placed a long log on the carriage, set the saw in 
motion and sat down on the log with the dinner 
pail between them. Thus eating their dinner and 
moving from time to time in advance of the saw 
until it had ]iassed the middle, they changed their 
places behind it, still riding on the moving carriage-. 
Suddenly a bear appeared u])on the scene, and the 
men, having no firearms, hastily climbed over the 
low braces of the roof into safe places upon the 
tie beams. The bear came straight into the mill, 
climbed upon the log where the men had been 
sitting, and began eating the remnants of the tlin- 
ner, with his back to the saw. Presently the saw 
education and after a few terms at Pinkerton worked along the log until it nipped the short tip 
Academy completed his education by a course in a of the bear's tail. He gave an angry snarl and 
commercial college. WMien a young man he went hitched himself along a few inches, so intent u]H)n 
to Boston, where he engaged in active business, his feast that he scarcely minded the incident. A 
and for over twenty years carried on a successful moment later the saw came up to him again, this 
business in upholstery and interior decorations on time catching and tearing a gash in his back instead 



WILLIAM G. BAKER. 



l\7L LET'S HOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



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of his tail. In fjreat raije the bear turned around 
with his mouth wide extended and both forepaws 
read\- to strike an enemv. Seeing; the movina: saw 
and associating' it witli tlie cause of his pain and 
misfortune, he attempted to bite it and at the same 
time clasped it with his powerful paws. The result 
was such a deep cut in his forehead that he rolled 
off on the Ifoor and died in a few minutes. 



REV. ORRIN G. BAKER, youngest son of 
Jcjhn and Lucy (Gav) Baker, was l)orn on 
the English Range, Derry, Dec. 23, 1847. Having 
fitted for college at Pinkerton Academy, he grad- 
uated from Dartmouth in 1S74, and from Andover 
Theological Seminary in i!^77. He taught school 




REV. ORRIN G. BAKER. 



a number of terms during his course of studv. 
After graduating from the Seminary, he was or- 
dained and installed over the Congregational 
Church at Jamaica, \"t.. where he remained nearly 
eight years and a half. He was then pastor 
two years at East Fairfield, \"t., and six years at 
West Charlestown, \\., and has just accepted a 
call to Ferrisburgh, \\. He has been very suc- 
cessful in all the varieties of church work, especially 
in reaching and helping young peo])le. He has 
always been mterested in education, at times as 



superintendent of schools, and always ready to 
help in every work for the welfare of the com- 
munity and town. Both as a man and for his 
work, he has been respected and loved by the 
people. He married Alida M., daughter of Har- 
rison G. and Eliza (Hall) Barnes of Walpolc, 
N. H. They have six children : Harrison Barnes, 
John William, Eliza Lucinda, Paul Gay, Stella 
Kellogg, and Edward Edmunds. 



A FEW RECORDS OF THE PROVINCE 
■'^ touching the early settlers of Londonderry 
are given below. The first bears date June 26, 
1 718, and is an order of the Governor and Council : 

1. Whereas there are sundry familys of credit and reputa- 
tion late arrived in this Government from Ireland, most of them 
being farmers, and disposed either to buy or rent lands, if to be 
had at reasonable terms \v'''in this Province, 

Ordered, That publick notice be given throughout the 
'Province, thereof, that any p'sons inclined either to lett or fell 
land, may have an o])portunity so to do. 

Richard Waldron, Clcr. Con. 

.SCHOOLS. 

2. December 23, 1727. In the House of Representatives. 
Ordered, Upon the motion of James McKeen, Esq.. and 

considering the Infancy of the Town of London Derry, Provided 
they keep two Schools for writing and reading in said Town, 
that they be exempted from the Penaltys in the Laws of this 
Province relating to Grammar Schools, for one year now next 
ensuing, and to commence from their annual meeting in March 
next, and all courts that ha\ e authorit}- in that affair are to take 
notice of this order and conform according to it. 

James Jeffrv, Clcr. Assni. 

In towns of one hundred families, the penalty 
for not maintaining a grammar school in which 
Latin was taught was 7^20 for six months' neglect. 

The reason that Mr. McKeen assigned for 
this motion was, that "the charge of the Grammar 
School will maintain tico other Schools for reading 
and writing, which is much more beneficial to 
them ; few, if an\- of them, being able to give their 
children Grammar learning." 

LINEN manufactures. 

3. In the House of Representatives, May 7''', 1731. 
Whereas there are great frauds and deceit practiced by 

persons travelling in this Province by selling of Foreign Linnens 
under pretence they were made at Londonderry, in this Province, 



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which tends to the Damage of those who really make and sell 
the Linen in Londonderry, &c., for prevention of which and for 
encouraging the manufacturing Linen in said Town, 

Viteil, That an Act be drawn up authorizing the said Town 
to make choice of a suitable person to seal all such linen as shall 
be made in the said Town, and to have a Seal with the name of 
the Town engraved on it, and authority to such sealer (if suspect 
'twas not made in the Town) to administer an oath to the per- 
sons that bring linen to he sealed, that it was Iwnafiilc made in 
said town. 



IJ ENRY GOODWIN, the second son of Josiah 
' * Goodwin, of whom mention is made else- 
where in this work, was born in Londonderry, 
N. H., March 30, 1835. Until twenty-four years 




HENRV GOODWIN. 



of age he remained with his parents on the farm. 
In 1859, after having served for a time on the 
school committee and having had some e.xjK'rience 
as a school teacher, he went to Boston and engaged 
in the newspaper business as a carrier. He fol- 
lowed this occupation for eight years successfullv, 



when he sold his interest and formed a partnership 
which eventuated in the establishment of the 
Crawford House, Boston, where he has contin- 
uously served his patrons for nearly thirty years. 
In 1889 George II. Rimbach became a partner 
with Mr. Goodwin, and the firm has continued 
as Goodwin & Rimbach. In i860 he married 
Mary A. Moar of Londonderrv, the cer^'mony 
being performed by the Rev. William House, then 
pastor of the Presbyterian Church. Their silver 
wedding was appropriately celebrated May 17, 
1885. Arthur Worthington, their only child, was 
born in 1865 and died in 1870. Mr. and Mrs. 
Goodwin are members of the First Congregational 
Church, Charlestown. He fully appreciates the 
advantages of a godly ancestry, the inheritance of 
a strong constitution, and the possible blessings 
which in after years may come to one who has 
toiled in the woods during the rigorous winter 
nn)nths, and in the rocky soil of Rockingham the 
rest of the year, which yields such a reluctant 
recompense for the seed and service of the tiller. 
He has still a fondness for the home of his child- 
hood and a deep interest in all that pertains to the 
welfare and prosperitv of his native state and 
the goodiv town of Londonderry. 



EPIDEMIC DISEASES have been very m- 
frequent in the healthful regions settled by 
the men of Nutfield. Onlv twice have serious 
epidemics raged. The first time was in 1 753, when 
a malady much resembling the \'ell(iw fever of 
later years carried off many of the inhabitants, in- 
cluding some of the i)rincipal citizens. In 18 12 
the spotted fever caused many deaths in the com- 
munity. Alexander Anderson, who li\'ed in (he 
West Parish, lost three children, David Anderson 
four, Robert Taylor four, and William Thomp- 
son two. The sickness was so general that the 
physicians were unable to attentl to all the 
cases, and doctors from abroad were employed 
by the town. Bleeding was the principal means 
of cure resorted to, and Christopher Thom, 
Abraham Morrison, and Joseph Gregg went 
from house io house with lancets. Many pa- 
tients recovered in siiite of the bleedino-. 





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INSCRIPTIONS IN THE HILL GRAVEYARD, LONDONDERRY. 



A 



RECENT visit to this ancient burial t!,round 
resulted in dccipherina,- the inscriptions on 
all the monuments now remaining visible, and for 
the benefit of posterity an alphabetical arrangement 
of the names of the dead is herewith presented, 
with the dates of decease and ages so far as given. 
Many more stones without inscriptions are firmly 
lixetl at the heads of graves whose inmates are only 
to be conjectured 
bv the surround- 
ing memorials. 
Several hundred 
bodies ha\'e been 
interred, a small 
portion of these 
iiave been re- 
mo\'ed to other 
places of burial, 
and probably the 
removal of more 
is anticipated, as 
the memory of 
the worthy dead 
is being revived 
in more conspic- 
uous and abiding 
entablatures bv 
the present gen- 
eration. 



Aiken, Manila (d.iu of 
\\ llliam Aiken) died May 
4, 1749, aged 14 yrs ; Wil- 
liam died Oct 16, 1745, 
.aged 54 yts. 

AiuxANDEK, Agnes 
(d.in of William and Eliza- 
belli Alexander) died Jan 

10, 1771, aged 15 mos; Agnes (wife of John Alexamlei ) 
aged 71 yrs ; John died Veb 14 




died Sept 4, 1769, 
771, aged 92 yrs ; John (son of William and 
Klizahelh Alexander) died May 3, 17X4, aged 10 yrs 5 mos 5 dys. 

ANiaajsoN, Janet (wife of Robert Anderson) died Nov 15, 1777, aged 
54 yrs. 

HtLL, Elizabeth (wife of John Bell) died Aug 30, 1771, aged 82 yrs ; 
Ebenezer (son of John and Mary Ann Bell) died July 22, lcSo5, aged 20 yrs ; 
James (son of John and Mary Ann Bell) died March 31, 1787, aged 19 yrs 
5 mos 21 dys ; Jane (dau of John and Mary Ann Bell) died Aug )i, 17S5, 
aged 13 yrs 3 mos 8 dys ; Jean (wife of Joseph Bell) died Nov 22, 1777, aged 
82 yrs; John died July 8, 1743, aged 64 yrs; Joseph .lied Oct 14, 1779, 
aged 83 yrs. 

BuYD, Alice (wife of William Boyd) died Nov 25, 1790, aged 60 )ts ; 
John (son of William Boyd) died Dec 28, 1764, aged 15 yrs; Lelice (dau of 
William and Alice Boyd) died Aug 14, 1772, aged 1$ yis ; Robert (son of 



William and .Mice ISoyil) died Jan 9, 1777, aged 22 yrs; William died Nov 24, 
1785, aged 70 yrs 3 mos. 

Cami'HEI.I,, Jannet (wife of Henry Campbell) died .Sept 28, 1778, aged 
46 yrs. 

Clakk, Eleanor (a child), no dates ; Esther (a child), no dates ; Esther 
(a child), also no dates. 

Cr.\ige, Jean (a child) ; John died Oct 2, 175S, aged 61 yrs ; Mary (dau 
of John Craige) died Nov 25, 1760, aged 4 yrs ; Mary (wife of John Craige) 
died .\pril 27, 1753, aged 92 yrs; Samuel (a child). 

Dickey, Elias died Feb 27, 1755, aged 57 yrs ; Elizabeth (Mrs) died 
Sept 21, 1748, .aged 70 years; Joseph died Nov 26, 1745, aged 9 yrs; Martha 

(wife of .Samuel Dickey) 
died (.)ct 15, 1775, ^ged 
72 yrs ; Maitha died .aged 
3 mos ; Mary died aged 

3 weeks ; Sarah died aged 
21 mos ; William died Oct 
9. •743. aged 60 yrs. 

DUNCVN, Hannah (wife 
of John Duncan) died Jan 
5, 1 789, aged 50yis ; John 
died Nov 15, 1799, aged 
70 yrs; Letitia (wife of 
Deacon George Duncan) 
died May 5, 1767, aged 52 
yrs; Naomi (wife of Wil- 
liam Duncan) died Sept I, 
1807, aged 88 yrs; Robert 
(son of John Duncan) died 
l-'eb 10, 1759, aged 26 yrs 

4 mos ; Samuel (son of 
1 >eacon George and Leli- 
cia Duncan) died Nov 5, 
1753, aged 2 yrs ; William 
(son of Capt William and 
.Vaonii Duncan) died 
March 29, 1793, aged 55 
yrs ; William died Feb 22, 
1795, aged 82 yrs 6 mos ; 
William died Oct 23, 1764, 
aged 20 yrs. 

Ela, Sarah (dau of 
David and Hannah Ela) 
died Sept 29, 1778, aged 
17 mos 22 dys. 

FiNi.AY, Jenet (wife of 
Joseph Finlay) died Dec 
23, 176S, aged 57 yis. 
Fisher, Agnes (wife of 
Samuel Fi-.her) died March 12, 1755, aged 27 yrs; Elder Samuel died April 
10, 1S06, aged 84 yrs; .Sarah (wife of Elder Samuel Fisher) died Feb 3, 1813, 
aged 80 yrs ; William (son of Elder Samuel Fi,her) died Oct 25, 1775, aged 
14 yi-s. 

Ho(;, John died Aug 13, 1755, aged 23 yrs; 'riiomas died Jan 8, 1748, 
aged 42 yrs 

Hik;<;, Mary {wife of Thomas Hogg) died May I, 1790, aged 24 years. 
Mack, John died April 12, 1753, aged 55 yrs. 
McAi.LESTER, William died March 10, 1755, aged 55 yrs. 
McCleary, Capt David (son of Thomas and Elizabeth McCleary) died 
at Bennington Aug 16, 1777, aged 31 yrs; Elizabeth (dau of Thomas and 
Elizabeth McCleary) dieil Oct 15, 17S2, aged 30 yrs ; John (son ol Thomas 
and Elizabeth McCleary) died Sept 3, 1751, aged 3 yrs; Mary (dau of 
Thomas and Elizabeth McCleary) died Apiil 7, 1778, aged 21 yrs; Thomas 
died (kt 5, 1787, aged 81 yrs. 



HOME OF MRS. MARY J. TENNKY, GEN. STARk's GRANDDAUGHTER. 
Situ.ited near the Hill Graveyard, Londonderry. — Winter scene. 



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WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



McClenche, Elizabeth (dau of John and Martha) died Nov 12, 17S8, 
aged 20 yrs ; John died March 24, 1S20, aged 76 yrs ; Manha (dau of John 
and Martha McClenche) died May 20, 1787, aged 20 yrs ; Martha (wife of 
John McClenche) died July 27, 1801, aged 69 yrs. 

McCoLOM, Alexander died July 4, 1781, aged 79 yrs ; Archibald died 
Ajjril 10, 1761, aged 23 yrs ; Janet (wife of Alexander McColom) died Oct II, 
1773, aged 69 yrs; Jannet, died Aug 27, 1744, aged 12 yrs ; Martha (wife of 
Lieut Robert McColoni) died Sept 15, 1S22, aged 74 yrs; Lieut Robert died 
June 13, 1792, aged 56 yrs ; William died Sept 17, 1794, aged 23 yrs. 

McGregor, Alexander, died June 27, 1S04, aged 37 yrs; John P. died 
Sept 27, 1819, aged 22 yrs; Mary (wife of Alexander McGregor) died May 
24, 1799, aged 31 yrs. 

Messer, Cyrus died April 2, 1S37, aged 65 yrs; Mary (wife of Cyrus 
Messer) died June 18, 1866, aged 92 yrs 9 mos; Moses W. died March 10, 
1814, aged 18 yrs. 

Mitchell, Watt (son of Francis and Margaret Mitchell) died Sent 24, 
1775, aged 10 mos. 

Moore, Elizabeth (dau of Capt William and Martha Moore) died March 
6, 1775, aged 3 weeks ; Sibbil (dau of Capt William and Martha Moore) died 
Aug 15, 1776, aged 9 mos; Hugh (son of Capt William and Martha Moore) 
died March 16, 1775, aged 6 yrs. 

OuGHTERSON, James died March 3, 1761, aged 64 yrs. 

Patterson, Elizabeth (wife of Peter Patterson) died June 22, 17S6, 
aged 23 yrs. 

PlNKERTON, Elizabeth (dau of Major John and Rachel Pinkerton) died 
March iS, 1789, aged 17 yrs 6 mos 17 dys ; David died March 8, 1808, aged 
75 ys ; John (son of Major John and Rachel Pinkerton) died June 4, 1 795, 
aged 17 yrs 7 mos 22 dys ; John died Feb 10, 1780, aged 80 yrs ; Major John 
died May i, 1816, aged 81 yrs ; Mary (wife of Major John Pinkerton) died 
F'eb Ig, 1S44, aged 94 yrs ; Rachel (wife of Major John Pinkerton) died .Se)it 
13, 17S1, aged 36 yrs 3 mos 2 dys ; Rachel (dau of lohn and Mary I'in!ertonl 
died Nov 17, 1796, aged 47 yrs ; Mary (dau of John and Mary Pinkerton) 
died Sept 23, 1807, aged 67 yis ; Samuel (son of John and Mary Pinkerton) 
died March i6, 1780, aged 34 yrs; Mary (wife of John Pinkerton) died SejH 
10, 1754, aged 44 yrs ; Naomi (dau of Major John and Rachel Pinkerton) died 
May 4, 1 790, aged 20 yrs 3 mos 22 dys. 

ScoBEY, Martha, died CJCt 6, 1754, aged 30 yrs ; Matthew died July 2, 
1764, aged 31 yrs ; Samuel died Jan 20, 1737, aged 3 yrs. 

Smith, Jane (wife of John Smith and dau of Thomas and Elizabeih 
McCleary) died March 5, 1779, aged 29 yrs. 

Taggart, James (soi! of James and Jean Taggart) died May 25, 1752, 
aged 8 yrs ; Jean (wife of James Taggart) died March 6, 1770, aged 60 yrs ; 
Sarah, a child ; Rose (wife of Niel Taggart) died June 15, 1748, aged 48yr.s. 

Thi'MPSON, Molly (dau of John and Martha Thompson) died June 9, 
1778, aged 2 yrs; Sarah (dau of Robert and Margaret Thompson) died Nov 
iS, 1776, aged I yr. 

Wallace, Ann (a child) no dates ; Barbara (wife of Thomas Wallace) 
died Sept 2, 1771, aged 95 yrs ; Annas (wife of John Wallace) died Jan 6, 
1761, aged 63 yrs ; Ann died .Aug 23, 1733, aged 20 yrs ; James died Oct 30, 
179I, aged So yrs ; James (a child) no dates ; Elizabeth (a child) no dates ; 
Capt James died Dec 14, 1792, aged 71 yrs; John (son of lames and Mary 
Wallace) died Nov 15, 1754, aged 10 dys; John (husband of Annas Wal- 
lace) died March 29, 1777, aged 82 yrs; (The slone bears the legend that John 
and Annas Wallace were the first couple married in Londonderry, May 18, 
1721.) Mary (dau of James and Mary Wallace) died Oct 10, 1760, aged 8 yrs ; 
Naomi (wife of Capt Rolert Wallace) died May 10, 1791, aged 80 yrs ; 
Capt Robert Wallace died Oct 10, 1782, aged 73 yrs; Thomas (husband of 
Barbara Wallace) died Aug 22, 1754, aged 82 yrs; William, M. A. (son of 
Thomas and Barbara Wallace) died March 27, 1733, aged 26 yrs (see cut on 
page 33) ; Thomas dieil May 7, 1789, aged 73 yrs ; Thomas (son of John and 
Annas Wallace) died Sept 22, 1734, aged 4 yrs i mo 12 dys ; Mrs Rebecca 
died Sept 22, 1804, aged 81 yrs ; Thomas died Jan 26, 1790, aged 46 yrs ; 
his wife died April 4, 1785, aged 31 yrs; Samuel died July 29, 1778, 
aged 41 yrs ; William (a child) no dates. 

Watts, Peggy (wife of Moses Watts) died May 3, 1795, aged 64 yrs. 

WlEAR, David (son of Adam and Margaret Wiear) died Feb 15, 1765, 
aged 25 yrs. 



Wilson, Joseph ; Rebecca (wife of Joseph Wilson) died May 25, 1770, 
aged 66 yrs. 

WooDBURN, David died Oct 9, 1823, aged 85 yrs ; Margaret (wife of 
David Woodburn) died Oct 17, 1792, aged 39 yrs. 

The complete inscription on the monument 
of Major John Pinkerton is appencied as a tribute 
to the memory of his generosity and a reminder 
of the locality where his dust reposes : 

In memory of John Pinkerton, Esq., who died May i. 1816, 
aged 81 years. He was born in the county of Antrim, North of 
Ireland, and came with his parents when a child to this country. 
He was a man of strict integrity, active benevolence and ex- 
emplary piety. For many years he was a useful member and 
officer of the Church of Christ and a distinguished benefactor of 
the town. By prudence and industry he acquired an ample for- 
tune which he chiefly devoted to objects of public utility. He 
was the ]jriricipal touiider of the Pinkerton Academy in London- 
derry, and endowed each of the two religious societies in the 
place with a fund for the support of the Gospel Ministry. 

The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. 

Also in memory of Mrs. Rachel, first wife of lohn Pinkerton, 
Esq., who died Sept. 13, 1781. aged 36 years. 

Note. — The income of the Pinkerton fund given to the 
West Parish is to be appropriated to the sole purpose of sup- 
porting an orthodD.K Presbyterian luinister of the Gospel in said 
parish agreeable to the constitution of the Presbyterian Church 
in the United States. 



THE MAMMOTH ROAD, so named in deri- 
sion by those who opposed its construction, 
was built in the summer of 1831, and at once 
became a popular route between Concord and 
Boston. Large numbers of passengers were 
carried by the three lines of daily stages that 
travelled over the road, and the other traffic was 
also heavy. Great quantities of country produce 
were taken to Lowell and Boston over the 
Mammoth road, and the highway continued to 
be thronged with vehicles until the opening of the 
Concord & Nashua railroad in 1838. In 1832, 
the year after the Mammoth road was built. 
President Jackson and his cabinet passed over it 
on their way from Boston to Concord, and dined 
at White's hotel in the northern part of Lon- 
donderry. 



PINKERTON ACADEMY. 



BY REV. E G. PARSONS. 



BEFORE the founding of Pinkerton Academy, 
as early as 1 793, a " classical high " school 
had been maintained in the East Parish of Lon- 
donderry. (See page 221.) This was partly sup- 
ported by the voluntary offerings of benevolent 
individuals, among whom was Major John Pinker- 
ton. About the year 18 14 it was suggested to 
him bv Rev. Edward L. Parker that permanent 
provision be made for the support of the school, 
and out of this came the endowment and charter 
of Pinkerton Academy. Major Pinkerton donated 
in all $13,000 to the school, and his brother. Elder 
James Pinkerton, added $1,500. A portion of the 
income of this latter sum was applied to the prin- 
cipal annually until it was doubled, and the per- 
manent funds became over $16,000. By careful 
management this sum was increased to $18,000, 
and in 18S1 a munificent bequest was received 
from John Morrison Pinkerton of Boston, son of 
Elder James Pinkerton. The will of Mr. Pinker- 
ton provided that the income of this fund should 
be expended, first, for the payment of certain 
annuities, and then for the erection and furnishing 
of a new and improved academy building, costing 
not more than $50,000; then $500 annually for 
ten years and longer at the discretion of the 
trustees for the purchase of books for a library, 
and the residue of the income for the support of 
the school. The will further provided that the 
funds should be used and managed in accordance 
with the intentions of the original founders. 

The charter members of the board of trustees 
were Major John Pinkerton and Elder James 
Pinkerton, Rev. Edward L.. Parker, Rev. William 



Morrison, John Burnham, Isaac Thom, John 
Porter, Alanson Tucker, and Dr. Robert Bartley. 
These nine men, in 18 14, duly organized the 
corporation, electing James Pinkerton as presi- 
dent. Among the first acts of the trustees was a 
vote directing that tuition be collected of the 
pupils. It was required to be paid in advance, and 
was at first $2 a quarter, or $8 a year. This sum, 
together with $220 from the income of the funds, 
was appropriated as the compensation of the first 
preceptor, Samuel Burnham, for one year. Mr. 
Burnham resigned in 18 18 and was followed by 
Justin B. Adams for one year. In 18 18 the 
tuition was raised to $3 per quarter, and was after- 
ward changed to $7 per term, three terms in a 
year, and is now $6 per term, or $18 a year. This 
tuition, merely nommal as compared with that of 
most other schools of similar grade, has for a 
long time had but little, if anything, to do with 
the direct support of the academy. It is used to 
pay for repairs and improvements, for which no 
other provision was made by the donors, the con- 
dition of the trust being such that any surplus 
income of the fund must, at the end of each year, 
be added to the principal and become a part 
thereof. Successive members of the board of 
trustees, chosen to fill vacancies as they occurred, 
have been as follows : 

Rev. Justin Edwards, I). D.. James Thom, Rev. Asa Mc- 
Farland, I). I)., Rev. Daniel Dana, D. D., George Farrar, M. D., 
Hon. William M. Richardson. LL. D.. Rev. John H. Church, 
D. D., William Choate. .Samuel Adams, Thornton Betton, Rev. 
Pliny B. Day. D. D., Rev. Jonathan Clement. 1). D., Rev. 
'limothv G. Brainerd. Samuel H. Taylor, A. M., LL. D., 



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WILLBT'S BOOK OF NUTFTELD. 



John M. PiTikerton, A. M., Rev. Jofhua W. Wellman, D. D. 
(see page 37), Rev. E. G. Parsons, A. M., William Anderson, 
David H. Pinkerton, Rev. William House, A. M., Rev. 
Leonard S. Parker, D. D., Rev. James T. McCollom, D. D., 
Rev. Caleb E. Fisher, A. M., Rev. David Bremner, A. M., 
Rev. Benjamin F. Parsons, A. M., Rev. Robert W. Haskins, 
A. M., Rev. Charles Tenney, A. M.. Rev. Charles Packard, 
Nathan B. Prescott, Willard G. Means, Rev. John P. Newell, 
A. M.. Hon. Edward Spalding, M. D., LL. D., Hon. John W. 
Noyes, George L. Clarke, John C. Chase. Rev. E. G. Parsons 
has been president of the board since iSSi. (See page 25.) 

At first the school received only bo3's. After 
a year or two, when the room in the academy had 
been completed for that purpose, it was enlarged 
by the addition of a female department, and Miss 
Sarah Fitts, who afterward became the wife of 
Col. Samuel Adams, was appointed its first pre- 
ceptress. This department of the school was dis- 
continued in 182 1. In 1853 Pinkerton Academy 
was again opened to girls, and they have since 
formed a good half of its members. The school 
began its sessions in 18 14, in the new building 
which had been erected for it by a general sub- 
scription of the people, especially of the western 
part of the town of Londonderry, on land contri- 
buted by William Choate and Peter Paterson. 
The site was that of the new building of today. 
and where the main building must always stand, 
" within two rods of John Porter's land." That 
old building, which has still its place of honor in 
the immediate vicinity, has by no means outlived 
its usefulness, and may yet in good time have a 
further important relation to the work of the 
school. 

The most noted feature of the history of the 
academy in the distant past is the administration 
of Abel F. Hildreth, A. M., as its preceptor from 
1 8 19 to 1846. (See page 26.) With the valuable 
assistance of able young men. many of whom 
afterward became distinguished in other walks of 
life, the academy attained a wide reputation for its 
general thorough instruction and as a fitting 
school for college. Mr. Hildreth was succeeded 
in 1846 by Caleb Emery, and in 1S48 Rev. Elihu 
T. Rowe became preceptor, followed in 1850 by 
Marshall Henshaw, A. M., who resigned in 1853 
to take the preceptorship of Dummer Academy, 
Byfield, Mass. He was afterward for some years 
a professor in Rutgers College, New Jersey, and 



was honored with the degree of LL. D. Follow- 
ing Mr. Henshaw were John W. Ray, and, in 
1857, Henry L. Boltwood. Mr. Ray was subse- 
quently ordained to the ministry and settled in 
Minnesota. Mr. Boltwood held his position here 
until 1 86 1, when he was called elsewhere. He 
has since had a long and honorable connection 
with the schools in Evanston, 111. The first term 
of 1862 enjoyed the services of Albert Currier, at 
that time a student in Andover Seminary. Dr. 
Currier became prominent as pastor of a Congre- 
gational church in Lynn, Mass., and has been for 
many years a professor in the theological seminary 
at Oberlin, O. John Young Stanton, the ne.xt 
preceptor, was remarkable for the thorough char- 
acter of his work. He left in 1864 to accept a 
professorship in Bates College, Maine. At the 
centenary of Bowdoin College, in 1894, it con- 
ferred upon him the degree of LL. D. Hon. 
John P. Newell succeeded Mr. Young as princi- 
pal, resigning in 1866. He had been principal of 
the high school and superintendent of schools in 
Manchester, and his fellow citizens had also placed 
him in the mayor's chair. His work in Pinkerton 
Academy was no less marked and useful than in 
the neighboring city. He was afterward ordained 
pastor of the Presbyterian church in Litchfield, 
and for several years has been a member of the 
board of trustees. At the beginning of the school 
year in 1866, Marshman W. Hazen came to the 
academy as its principal from his graduation at 
Dartmouth College. He proved a wise and able 
administrator and instructor, and at the end of 
three years accepted a more lucrative educa- 
tional position in Massachusetts. At present he 
is managing a prosperous business enterprise in 
New Vork city. Following Mr. Hazen, Rev. 
E. G. Parsons, A. M., was principal for three years, 
when he resigned to accept a similar position at 
Dummer Academy, where he remained ten years, 
and then returned to his home in Derrv. Suc- 
ceeding Mr. Parsons, George T. Tuttle was 
principal two terms. Homer P. Lewis two terms, 
and Edward A. Greeley one term. In 1876 
Edmund R. Angell was chosen principal. He 
resigned in 1885, and has since rendered valuable 
service to the public by his scientific acquirements, 
and in official duties to which he has been 



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appointed by his fellow citizens. In 1885 George 
W. Bingham, A. M., the present incumbent, 
entered upon his able and useful service as princi- 
pal of the academy. 

The school, almost from the beginning, has 
required one or more assistants. The male assis- 
tant teachers, and the colleges from which they 
graduated or obtained their degrees, together with 
the dates of their service at the academy, are as 
follows : 

Hon. Samuel D. Bell. LL. D. (Harvard). 181 7: Rev. 
Daniel Fitz (Dartmouth), 1818: Jarvis Gregg, A. M. (Dart- 
mouth), 1826; William Appleton (Bowdoin), 1826-28: David 
Stowell (Dartmouth), 1829; Rev. W. H. Hoit (Dartmouth), 
1831 : Edwaid D. Sanborn (Dartmouth). 1S31 ; F. Furber, 1832 : 
Charles T. Elliott, M. D. (Dartmouth). 1S32-33 : Henry Blan- 
chard (Harvard), 1833 ; Theo. H. Jewett, A. M., M. D. (Bou- 
doin), 1S34: Rev. Samuel Bean. A. M. (Dartmouth), 1834-35 : 
Rev. Ephraim M. Hidden (Dartmouth), 1S35 : James Aiken, 
1836 ; Edward P. Parker (Dartmouth), 1836-37 (see page 137) : 
Jesse P. Bancroft (Dartmouth >, 1838: Leonard Swain, D. D. 
(Dartmouth), 1842-44: Rev. John P. Humphrey (Dartmouth) 
1844: Henry Day (Yale), 1S45 : ^^'iHiam B. Shute, 1846: 
Henry C. Parker, A. M. 'Dartmouth). 1S46; Rev. Simon J. 
Humphrey. D. D., 1848: Rev. James W. Poland, 1S49: Rev. 
Granville W'ardwell, 1850: Rev. Henry Storrs, D. D. (Amherst), 
1S50: Joseph Upton, 185 1; Rev. William Grassie, A. M., 
(Amherst), 1851: John H. Palmer (Amherst) 1856-57; Solon 
Albee, A. M. (Middletown), 1857 : George S. Chase, 1S61 : 
Ira C. Randall, i86t ; James C. D. Pigeon, M. D., 1S80: J. M. 
Willard, 1887-90: T. C. Craig, 1887: C. H. Dinsmore, 18S8: 
Alton Cowles, 1892-93; C. W. Smith, 1893-94. 

The women teachers, with the dates of their 
service, have been : 

Sarah Fitz, i8t6 ; Mary Knight, 1817-18; Mary Adams, 
1819 ; Eliza E. Carter, 1820-21 ; E. H. Allison. 1S53-56 : Laura F. 
Esterbrook, 1856-57; Caroline A. Boltuood. 1858; C. B. 
Williams, 1859-60: L. A. Sartwell, 1860-62; Hannah Hou-, 
i860; Anna L. Lane, 1S61; Lucinda F. Twichell, 1862-64; 
Sarah Cummings, 1862; Josephine B. Atkinson, 1S63-69; 
Mary A. Dearborn, 1864; S. D. McMillan, 1864-65; C. E. 
Strickland, 1865-66: F. R. Pinkerton, 1865-68; C. F. Chase, 
1866; Abby Clement, 1866-6S ; A. C. Hills, 1S67-69; M. G. 
Carr, 1868-71; L. A. Allen. 1S6.S; F. Strong, 1870: S. D. 
Bartley, 1871-84; Mrs. William Crawford, 1874; L. P. 
Greenough, 1S79; Mrs. S. D. Parsons, 1882-83; Helen M. 
Mead, 1883; Martha T. Learned, 1884; S. G. Frost, 1S91-92. 

The corps of instructors in 1896 includes: 

George W. Bingham, A. M., principal: Mary Nesmith Par- 
sons, preceptress ; Elizabeth Greenleaf Prescott, music ; Cassius 



S. Campbell. A. B., mathematics and sciences : Anna Catherine 
Blenker. drawing and elementary studies : Jason G. Miller, A. B., 
history and mental and moral philosophy ; Mary F. Pinkerton, 
lecturer on modern history : Mabel C. Snow, instructor in elocu- 
tion and physical culture. 

These had all been successful instructors, 
some of them for many years as principals of 
boarding and high schools and academies, several 
of them being graduates of Pinkerton Academy 
who had received subsequent instruction in col- 
lege. Under Mr. Bingham's administration, and 
aided by this especially accomplished staff of 
instructors, the attendance has been equal to that 
in the academy's most jnosperous days in the past, 
and a much more comprehensive curriculum of 
study has been afforded, as is made necessary bv 
the enlarged requirements of colleges and advanced 
scientific institutions. Many of the graduates in 
the decade, who have been honorably connected 
with Dartmouth, Amherst, Harvard, Wellesley, 
Mt. Holyoke, Trinity, Columbia, Boston Univer- 
sity, Massachusetts Institute of Technologv, or 
the normal schools for the special preparation of 
teachers, are bearing gratifying testimony to the 
intelligent, broad, and effective mental and moral 
preparation in this academy for their subsequent 
careers. 

The semi-centennial anniversary of the acad- 
emy was celebrated Sept. 12, 1866. The citizens 
of Derry and Londonderry engaged in it with zeal 
and afforded very substantial and acceptable aid to 
the trustees, providing a band of music and con- 
tributing bountiful and excellent supplies for the 
collation, and rendering important personal 
services, under the efficient superintendence of 
George F. Adams, assisted by Henry Eastman, 
marshal of the day. A spacious tent accommodat- 
ing two thousand persons was erected on the 
grounds in front of the academy. An interesting 
feature of the occasion was the presence and parti- 
cipation of several distinguished gentlemen whose 
names are among those of the students who were 
in attendance here in the early years. Among 
these were Dr. S. H. Taylor, Andover, Mass., 
president of the board of trustees and president of 
the day ; the orator. Rev. James T. McCoUom, 
D. D., Medford, Mass. ; Lieut. Gov. George W. 
Patterson of the state of New York ; the accom- 



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plished scholar, Rev. William C. Dana, D. D., 
Charleston, S. C. ; Hon. George Cochrane, Bos- 
ton, Mass.; Hon. Daniel Richardson, Lowell, 
Mass. ; Hon. Elias Hackett Derby of Boston, who 
afterwards showed a practical interest in his alma 
mater by a legacy of $i,ooo to the librar)' fund ; 
Rev. Christopher Cushing, D. D., Boston, Mass. ; 
Hon. Franklin Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury, Vt., and 
Zenas Cushing of Boston. It was a memorable 
dav for Pinkerton Academv, its alumni and 
friends. 

In fulfillment of the purpose of John M. Pink- 



the history of the academy and the influence of 
such institutions. The prayer of dedication was 
offered by Rev. H. B. Putnam, pastor of the 
First Congregational church. Rev. J. P. Newell 
of Litchfield, in lichalf of the building committee, 
made his report, and proffered the keys to the 
president of the board, who, in his turn, committed 
them to the principal. Prof. G. W. Bingham, as 
the responsible person for the carrying out of the 
principles which had been urged, and the aims and 
purposes of the institution. Mr. Bingham, in 
accepting the trust, made an appropriate reply for 




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erton, the trustees proceeded to erect a new build- 
ing which was completed in the summer of 1887. 
It is regarded by competent architectural experts to 
be one of the best of its kind in the country. The 
services of dedication took place July 27, 1887. 
The exercises opened with reading of the Scrip- 
tures and invocation by Rev. David Bremner of 
Boxford, Mass. Rev. E. G. Parsons, in behalf of 
the board of trustees, welcomed the alumni and 
friends of the institution in an address which was 
responded to by Frank N. Parsons, Franklin. 
Rev. S. C. Bartlett, LL. D., president of Dart- 
mouth College, delivered an interesting oration on 



himself and his associates. The benediction was 
pronounced by Rev. B. F. Parsons. After the 
service the company proceeded to Association hall, 
where a banquet was provided. Hon. G. C. 
Hazelton of Washington, D. C, presided over the 
post prandial exercises. In the evening an alumni 
association was organized. In 1895, under the 
auspices of this association, the pupils and teachers 
met Aug. 22 for a reunion, and to celebrate the 
eighty-first anniversary. The committee who had 
the business in charge spared no pains to make 
the day a success, and a large number assembled. 
After the invocation, John C. Chase, chairman of 



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the local committee, made an address of welcome. 
Then followed the address of the president of the 
association, Hon. George C. Hazelton, the oration 
by Henry Goodwin of Boston, Mass., the poem by 
George Brickett of Lynn, Mass., together with 
other brief exercises. Dinner was served in the 
hall of the old academy. Under the direction of 
the president of the day, more earnest, stirring 
speeches were made, and with the reception in the 
evening, closed another interesting and important 
day for Pinkcrton Academy. 

THE FOUNDERS OF THE ACADEMy. 



crowned all his benevolences by the gift of his 
fortune (subject to some annuities) to the funds 
of Pinkcrton Academy. 

Mr. Pinkcrton partook of those qualities of 
mind which marked his predecessors, — diligence, 
persistence, prudence, foresight, shrewdness, and 
economy, as well as their integrity and uprightness, 
which secured to him similar financial success, and 
a fortune to bestow upon the work of their hands 
and in an amount which was equal to, if it did not 
surpass, the whole accumulation of both his uncle 
and father. We find the name of John M. Pinker- 



In 1724, John Pinkcrton, the first of the 
family in this country, came from the county of 
Antrim, in the north of Ireland, and established 
himself among the sixteen families who had a few 
years before settled in Nutfield. He occupied a 
farm in the West Parish of Londonderry. Of his 
sons John was born in Ireland in 1720, and James 
a few years later, in this town. Each of them 
began business in early life. For a long period 
Londonderry and the neighboring towns were 
supplied principally by the Pinkertons with mer- 
chandise. They were both men of more than 
ordinary financial ability. They became bankers 
as well as merchants and accumulated large 
properties for the time and were enabled to carry 
out their benevolent desires for the founding of 
the Academy in the sum of $16,000, as well as a 
considerable endowment of the East and West 
parishes in the town. The two brothers were 
distinguished by their strict moral and religious 
principles and habits, were both officers in the 
church, were employed much in the business of 
the town, and as representatives in the legislature. 

John Morrison Pinkerton, the youngest son 
of Deacon James and Mrs. Sarah (Wallace) 
Pinkerton , was born Feb. 6, iSiS. He derived 
from his birth and early home influences the 
elements of character which marked his career 
through life. He was one of ten children, all of 
whom became members of the church. From the 
beginning of his active life his bestowal of chari- 
ties was stated and continuous. During the later 
years his gifts to charitable and benevolent objects 
exceeded one third of his net income, and he 







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ton on the roll of pupils when he was but a child. 
From the academy he entered Yale College in 
1837. After graduating in 1S41 he spent two 
years in teaching a school in Lunenburg county, 
Virginia. He pursued the study of law in the 
Harvard Law School and in the office of William 
Gray, and in 1846 was admitted to the bar of 
Suffolk county, Mass. His pastor, Rev. Dr. 
Herrick, in his funeral discourse, says of his 
college days: "There are those living who well 
remember his boyhood, who have described him to 
me as he was in those early years, delicate, quiet, 



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thoughtful, fond of his hooks, and of great 
memorv." The learning, ahility, integrity of his 
professional career, and the supreme confidence of 
men who knew him well are best illustrated by 
the great interests entrusted to him, of which the 
tangled affairs of the \"ermont Central railroad 
and the estates of many hundred thousand dollars, 
if not millions also, which were from time to time 
put into his hands, are examples. Mr. Pinkerton 
died on the sixty-third anniversary of his birth, 
Feb. 6, 1 88 1. He was laid to rest by the side of his 
kindred in the beautiful cemetery at East Derry. 
(See page i 15.) 




ROBERT H. CLARK. 
(See page 2S4.) 





J. W. EE.^N S RESIDENCE, 1)ERR^■ DEPOT. 




TOWN H.AI.L, LONDONDERRY. 



J. W. BEAN,' DERRV DEPOT. 



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HON. REED PAIGE CLARK was the fourth 
in direct descent from the Clarks who were 
among the first settlers of Nutfield. He was the 
third son of Ninian Clark of Hancock, born July 
6, 1807, and named for Rev. Reed Paige, the first 
minister settled in that town. Early developing a 
taste for mechanics, he became skilled in the use 
of tools, but, like his ancestors, his inclination was 
toward agriculture, and to tiiis he bent his energies, 
keeping abreast with all improvements and encour- 
aging others to new and better methods. After 
his majority he lived for a time in New York, and 
journeyed through the then far West, hut family 
reasons induced him to return to New Hampshire 
about 1840, and he purchased the farm in London- 
derry upon which he lived until his death. He 
was a man of great industry and endurance, of 
sound judgment, strong will, and pronounced 
opinions. His knowledge of men was intuitive 
and almost unerring, and his frankness, integrity, 
and genial disposition won for him the esteem and 
confidence of his townsmen and a wide circle of 
friends in county and state. He represented his 
town many times in the state legislature ; was a 
member of Gov. Goodwin's council ; during the Civil 
War was in active service in the executive depart- 
ment of the state ; and for several years was a trustee 
of the State Reform School. In politics he was a 
staunch Republican, and it has been said of him 
that his motives were the purest, and that he 
desired only the highest good of his country. 
Mr. Clark married the only daughter of James 
Perkins of Londonderry, a woman of rare excel- 
lence of character, cultured, and refined. Retiring 
in disposition, she gave herself to her family and 
friends, making her home happy by constant mani- 
festations of kindness and affection. She died, 
greatly lamented, July 4, 1880, and Mr. Clark's 
death occurred April 8, 1882. 



WILLIAM CLARK, son of Reed Paige and 
Elizabeth (Perkins) Clark, was born in 
Londonderry July 22, 1844. He is a descendant 
in the fifth generation of Robert Clark, who was 
born in the north of Ireland and settled in Lon- 
donderry about 1725. Mr. Clark received his 
education in the common schools of Londonderry 



and at Pinkerton Academy, where he prepared for 
college. Instead of entering college, however, he 
enlisted in the first regiment of heavy artillery and 
was appointed a corporal. While on duty near 
Fairfax Seminary, Virginia, in October, 1864, he 
was taken seriously ill, and Lieut. W. S. Pillsbury 
of his company rode at night through the rain and 
mud to Washington and sent a telegram to Mr. 
Clark's father, who appeared at the hospital two 
days later with Dr. John Haynes. After an illness of 
five weeks Mr. Clark obtained a furlough and was 
removed to his home in Londonderry. Rejoining 
his company in February, 1865, he remained with 
it until the close of the war, when, being unable 
to resume his studies, as a result of his illness, he 
staid on the farm, and taught school for several 
winters. In 1868 he was employed in one of the 
large hide and leather commission houses in 
Boston, and in 1869 he went West, intending to 
make his home there. He taught school in 
Greenfield, a suburb of Detroit, that winter, and 
later visited the lumber camps and the mines in 
Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. 
The failing health of his father induced him to 
return to the farm. He became prominent in the 
Republican party, filled many town offices, twice 
represented Londonderry in the legislature, and 
for several years was a member of the Republican 
state committee. He took the initiative in creat- 
ing a fund for and in erecting the soldiers' monu- 
ment in his native town. He early became a 
member of Nutfield Grange in Derry, and later 
took an active part in organizing the Londonderry 
Grange, which he afterward joined and was for 
two years its master. Mr. Clark was a deputy 
sheriff for Rockingham county from 1876 to 1887. 
He is a Past Master of St. Mark's Lodge, 
F. & A. M., of Derry, and Past Commander of 
Wesley B. Knight Post, G. A. R., of Londonderry. 
In August, 1876, he was married to Alice W., 
daughter of Amos and Mary Mclntire of Reading, 
Mass., whose portrait appears on page 29. They 
have had two children : Reed Paige, born Aug. 19, 
1 8 78, who was one of the most brilliant students 
of Pinkerton Academy, and who is now one of 
the leaders of the sophomore class at Columbian 
University, Washington, D. C, and Ralph War- 
ner, born Nov. 27, 1882, and died July 22, 1S87. 



PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF SYLVANUS BROWN, 



BY W. W. POOR. 



FOR more than thirty years Sylvanus Brown was 
a prominent feature in the public affairs of the 
town of Derry. Possessed of great command of 
hanguage, both in conversation and debate, with 
wit, sarcasm, a good education, and considerable 
eloquence, he was a great power as friend or foe. 
Since his death more than seven thousand dollars 
of income from his estate have been distributed in 
benevolence in the town of Derry, and it becomes 
us to speak the best we may of the man. That he 
was insane on the subject of religion goes without 
the telling. His nagging of clergymen of every 
faith, passing of church buildings on the left, and 
speaking on divine subjects in the most serious 
and most ribald veins almost in the same breath, 
were evidences of mental unsoundness. 

Sylvanus Brown was born ui Hamilton, Mass., 
March 22, 1807, and was the son of Ammi and 
Sarah (Fellows) Brown. Soon afterward the 
family removed to Derry and occupied a farm on 
the Londonderry turnpike, near the present 
crossing of the Nashua & Rochester railroad. 
The district school and Pinkerton Academy fur- 
nished Sylvanus with his early education, and, 
graduating at Bowdoin College as doctor of 
medicine in 1827, he began the practice of his 
profession in Cohasset, Mass. While at Bowdoin 
he must have been nearly contemporary with 
Pierce, Hawthorne, Beecher, Longfellow, and 
Cheever. 

Ammi Brown possessed fair property and 
good standing, but procured a free scholarship at 
Pinkerton Academv for his son. This was then 
very unpopular, and Sylvanus expressed regret 
over his position till his latest days. In 1863 the 
doctor tendered William Anderson, then treasurer 
of the institution, the whole amount of tuition 
with interest to time of tender, and asked him to 
have his name removed from the list of charity 
scholars. The tender and request were rudely 
rejected. There was no love lost between William 
Anderson and Sylvanus Brown. 

At Cohasset Brown made the acquaintance 
of Mary Doane, a most refined and amiable 



woman, who became his wife in August, 1829, and 
followed his fortunes for many years. Their only 
son, Samuel, was the doctor's sole heir at the time 
of his death. Sometime in 1835 or 1836 he 
removed to Ipswich, Mass., and became interested 
in religious subjects. Being a ready speaker, he 
became an exhorter, consecrated to that position 
by the laying on of hands by two clergymen of the 
Free Will Baptist denomination. He made reli- 
gion his daily conversation to the neglect of his 
profession, finallv became violent, and at length 
was lodged in Salem jail, where he remained seven 
weeks. He could have been released at any time 
by giving bail to keep the peace, but refused and 
was at last released by the neglect of the prosecu- 
tion to pav his board bill. Later he preached a 
religion of his own, denouncing churches and the 
religion taught in them. His medical practice 
dwindled away, and soon after his father's death, 
which occurred about 1840, he removed to Derry 
and occupied the home farm till the time of his 
death in 1870. 

Thus he returned to Derry with the reputa- 
tion of a lunatic, a jail bird, and, far worse than all 
the rest in the belief of those days, a religious 
come-outer. It is remarkable how much the 
religious tone of the town has changed in the last 
fifty-five years. Then nothing could be tolerated 
but the tenets of John Calvin, and even the mild 
and otherwise progressive Rev. E. L. Parker 
refused to read from his pulpit the notices of 
Methodist prayer meetings that were held in the 
eastern part of the town. Arminius was not in 
favor in his theology. Thus Brown was an out- 
cast from the beginning. Yet he did many noble 
things; he doctored the poor of his neighborhood 
without hope of reward, gave to the needy as his 
means allowed, and many times aided the slave on 
liis wav to freedom. 

He early took an active part in public affairs. 
One of his first acts was to prove the town's 
ownership to the land where the building of the 
First church stands. 



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the town was printed and a copy placed in everv 
man's hand. For many years articles were put in 
the annual warrants for town meetinij wherein the 
town would express its ownership in the property. 
A pet project of Brown's was the construction of a 
public tomb ; another project, covering the ground 
with shade trees, and still another was for permis- 
sion to bury Brown's bodv, after death, on the 
town's land, leaving the surface level and free 
from all encumbrance and open to the passage of 
men and carriages. After several years' contest 
on the latter point, permission was granted " pro- 
vided that he should be buried within the year." 
Later it was made unconditional. Brown selected 



ing, declared that it was kept there as a matri- 
monial advertisement. The charge produced a 
laugh from the unthinking, but the money was 
withdrawn at once. 

The first time I ever saw Dr. Brown was in 
the summer of 1845. At that time the church 
building in the East Parish was undergoing repairs 
and being remodeled. Brown had bought the old 
shingles from the roof and was on the ground 
with a wagon to remove them. Resting a 
moment from his toil, James Thom, who lived in 
the vicinity, came around the corner of the build- 
ing with the question, "And what is Dr. Brown 
thinking of now ? " Without a moment's hesita- 



a location near the present cemetery gate and tion Brown replied, " I am wondering whether 



instructed his neighbors to see that he was 
properly interred at that place. After death the 
place was examined and solid ledge found near the 
surface. The project was abandoned, the remains 
were buried in the old cemetery, and today not 
ten men in town can tell where he lies. 

At a town meeting held in the old Parish hall 
some time in the sixties, in a burst of indignation, 
Brown said: "I have read of the injustice of 
republics, of the neglect of friends, and the cruelty 
of relatives, and I have seen the remains of Jacob 
Adams, after he had given every dollar of his 
fortune to benevolent objects in this parish, lie 
fortv years beneath the soil of Derry, without 
a stone to mark his last resting place." A citizen 



this church will hereafter take the form of a dove 
or a dragon, for then I should know whether I am 
gathering scales or feathers." Later in the same 
season, when the work was nearly completed and 
the pews were in position, Brown was sitting on 
the front seat watching a painter graining the 
pulpit base. It was then a new art and attracted 
much attention. Rev. Mr. Parker came up the 
aisle, not seeing Brown till they came in contact. 
Immediately a wordy war ensued, till Mr. Parker 
exclaimed: "If we cannot agree. Dr. Brown, let 
us agree to disagree." " I cannot do it," said 
Brown, " for I may want to change mv mind some 
time, and that trade would prohibit it." 

During the war, when Brown was securine 



of the town has placed a stone over Jacob Adams' monev and men for the service, he was equally 
grave, but Brown's remains are still unhonored careful in watching expenditures. The writer was 
and their resting place unknown. His estate pays a selectman at that time, with Isaac H. Jones, still 
into the town treasury annually more than $300 alive, and Benjamin Merrill, while Brown was 
for benevolent purposes, and Derry does itself auditor of accounts, and he claimed the privileo-e 

by right of office to examine and criticise bills as 
fast as they were incurred. This interference was 
not resented, as the man was too valuable an ally 
for us to take offence at his claims. The select- 
men were not extravagant, and with Brown's 
drubbing, the town was carried through the war 



injustice by this neglect. 

It is, however, by his witty sayings and happv 
bon mots that he will be best remembered. In 
his public career his creed was anti-slavery, non- 
resistant, and non-religious as religion was 
preached. During the Civil War he would counsel 



no violence, but if the town needed either money with less per cent of debt than anv other place in 
or men, he would furnish the former and advise the countv. 



the latter. And here occurred one of the most 
ungallant acts ever perpetrated by the man. An 
unmarried lady, well up in the forties, lent the 
town several thousand dollars, which remained on 
interest several years, and Brown, in town meet- 



I well recollect one call from Brown at that 
lime made just at the dinner hour. I was then 
building what is now known as Hildreth Hall, and 
a dozen workmen were taking dinner at my table. 
I invited Brown to take a seat with the rest, but 



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he declined. The men continued to eat. Brown 
continued to talk. I did both. After all were 
satisfied and had left the table, Brown remarked : 
" I see that your company have all left, and there 
is still food. I will accept vour invitation to 
dinner." A plate was laid and he took his seat at 
the table. After filling the plate, he, with bowed 
head and raised hand, asked a most appropriate 
blessing on his host, the family, and the food. He 
had eaten but a few bites, when, laying down his 
knife and fork and rising from the table, he went 
out doors to his wagon and returned with a quart 
bottle of cider. Pouring a glass for himself and 
another for me, he recommenced his dinner. I 
soon inquired, " How is it, doctor, that vou ask a 
blessing over the food and take the cider without 
any ?" The response was, " The cider is so good 
it don't require blessing." The cider was execrable; 
perhaps the doctor thought the food was. 

The doctor's common conversation was con- 
stantly interlarded with these witty sayings, com- 
bined with much valuable common sense, which 
attracted the attention of all unprejudiced persons. 
One more anecdote and I have done. Joseph 
Garland of Hooksett, in a trade, had beaten 
Brown out of a large amount of money. One day 
Garland was seated on an old-fashioned wooden 
settle that stood in a store in Derry \"illage, when 
the doctor entered. Brown saw him at once, and 
pulling an old clay pipe from one vest pocket and 
a match from another, he strode along to the 
stove, struck the match on the funnel, and while 
it was sputtering remarked : 

The Garlands can no garlantls wear 
Until their honest debts are square. 

Then, seating himself by Garland's side, without 
appearing to notice the man, poured out a terrible 
invective against him for his dishonesty. 

One thing is apparent, that the world lost the 
benefit of a very powerful mind when Svlvanus 
Brown became a religious maniac. 



Returning to the farm in 1S35, he continued to 
reside there until his death, wliich occurred May 




ELISHA SMIIH. 



26, 1887. He was married Nov. 25, 1830, to 
Rachel Sanborn of Sandown, who was born Feb. 

25, 1810, and died March 23, 1893. Of this union 



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P LISHA SMITH, son of David and Lois Smith, 

L-* was born in Londonderry Jan. 25, 1801. 

During his minority he remained on his father's rachel (sanborx) smith. 

farm, and then he learned the cloth nianufac- three children were born who still survive : 

turing trade, which he followed for several years Nathan S., Sherburn D., and Henry C. The last 

in Pepperell, Mass., and in Sandown and Salem, named still lives on the home farm. 



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'T^ME RICHARDSON FAMILY, which for 
•i several generations has resided in the north- 
western part of Londonderry, and is represented 
1)V various engravings and sketches in this history, 
traces its origin back to one WilHam Richardson, 
who came to America about 1643 and located at 
Newbury, Mass. He was of English birth and 
about twenty-three years of age at the time of his 
emigration. A brief outline of his descendants is 
herewith given for the benefit of those who may 
feel an interest in the earlier generations. 

William Richardson of Newbury married 
Elizabeth Wiseman, Aug. 22, 1654. He died 
March 14, 1658, and left three children : Joseph, 
born May 18, 
1655; Benja- 
min, March 13 
1637, and Eliz- 
abeth, born 
March 14,1658. 
Joseph Rich- 
ardson of New- 
bury married 
M argaret, 
daughter of 
Peter Godfrey 
and Mary 
Brown e, who 
was the daugh- 
ter of Thomas 
Browne, "wea- 
ver," who came 
to this country 
in 1635. She 
was born the same year 
according to the " History of Newbury and 
Savage's Genealogy " was the first white child born 
in Newburv. 

To this marriage were born eight children : 
Mary, born April 16, 1682 ; William, born March 
22, 1684; Joseph, born Dec. 31, 1686; Elizabeth, 
born Feb. 28, 1689; Daniel, born April 4, 1692; 
Sarah, born June 19, 1694; Thomas, born Feb. 15, 
1697; Caleb, born June 9, 1704. 

Caleb Richardson settled in Methuen and 
married Tryphena Bodwell, daughter of Captain 
Daniel Bodwell and Elizabeth Parker, and to this 
marriage were born ten children: Mary, born Jan. 




DR. WILLIAM Richardson's residence, north Londonderry, 
in which he arrived, and 



8, 1736; Parker, born March 7, 1738; Caleb, born 
Sept. 26, 1 741; Tryphena, born Jan. 13, 1743; 
Abigail, born Sept. 8, 1746; Samuel, born Feb. 22, 
1749; John, born Sept. i, 1751; Abigail, born 
Feb. 25, 1754; William, born Oct. 21, 1756; 
Eliphalet ; born July 6, 1759. 

This William Richardson married Lydia 
Messer about 1784. She was born about 1767, 
and died July 14, 1843. He died March 21, 1836. 
Nine children were born to them as the fruits of 
this marriage : Caleb, born January 3, 1786, died 
March 16, 1870; Lydia, born Dec. 14, 1792, died 
March 18, 1875; William M., born Feb. 12, 1795, 
died May 19, 1871 ; Sophia S., born April 7, 1797, 

died Oct. 20 
1879; Nathan- 
iel W., born 
March 12, i 799, 
died September 
184S ; Thomas 
J., born June 
14, 1 80 1, died 
Sept. 20, 1873; 
Elizabeth P., 
liorn July 25, 
1803, died Nov. 
13, 1892 ; Sam- 
uel R., born 
July 19, 1807, 
died Feb. 19, 
1872 ; Mary H., 
born Aug. 29, 
1809, died Feb. 
19, 1839. 
The above William Richardson of Methuen 
was the first member of that family who settled in 
Londonderry, though not the first of the name, as 
old records mention other Richardsons, arriving 
there prior to 1812. Some of the younger children 
came with him, the others remaining at their 
former home in Methuen. Of those who went to 
Londonderry with William Richardson not all 
settled permanentl\^ but after a few years some 
returned to their native town to spend their 
strength and energy among friends of longer 
standing, and others married and went elsewhere 
to reside. William Richardson followed the occu- 
pation of a blacksmith, and in that trade his sons 



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WILLIAM MKSSER RICHARDSON. 



elected to work. When he removed from 
Methuen to Londonderry he went prepared to 
set up a shop and do business in a newer country. 
He erected the first ox swing in Londonderry, 

bringing parts of 
it from Methuen. 
Portions of it still 
exist. In London- 
derry, both the 
father and son 
William Messer 
worked at their 
trade. Their black- 
smith shop was 
located in the 
northwestern part 
of the town. He 
was one of the 
committee a p- 
pointed to locate 
or build the Lon- 
donderry Baptist 
church. The father was a drummer in the Con- 
tinental Army in the Revolutionary War, and his 
brothers were also enlisted in that war. He died 
in Londonderrv, but both he and his wife were 
buried in Methuen. 

William Messer Richardson married Betsey Pet- 
tensfill Dec. 28, 1820. She was born Nov. 28, 1801, 
and died Jan. 4, 18S9. Five children were born to 
them: William P., born July 26, 1821, died May 
13, 1893; Margaret, born Feb. 5, 1823, died Sept. 
4, 1859; Eliza J., born Sept. 7, 1827; Mary A., 
born Nov. 15, 1837, died March 6, 1885; Samuel, 
born March 30, 1845. He was a private in a com- 
pany of cavalry attached to the New Hampshire 
militia in the War of 1812. His company was 
composed of men from the towns of Londonderry, 
Windham, Pelham, and Salem, and though not 
called into actual service, were for several weeks 
under orders to be in readiness at a moment's 
warning. It is related of Mr. Richardson that 
once when his company was ordered to Ports- 
mouth, and the order being countermanded before 
they got there, he was so anxious to return home 
that he rode faster than his commander. When 
taken to task for it, Mr. Richardson replied : "I 
couldn't help it. My horse was bound to go." 



William Pettengill Richardson, son of the 
preceding, was a lifelong resident of Londonderry, 
his birth and death occurring in the same locality 
in which he lived and conducted his business. His 
father and grandfather had been blacksmiths, and 
from them he learned the trade when quite young 
and continued to follow that occupation for many 
years. He was a skilful workman, and the plows, 
wagons, and sleighs manufactured bv him com- 
manded a ready sale. He married Sarah H. Good- 
win Dec. 10, 1855. Their children were: Harry, 
born July 14, 1857, died Jan. 22, 1892; William, 
of whom mention is made elsewhere in this work; 
Myron, born March 21, 1864; Sarah, born April 
10, 1866. In 1863 he built a sawmill on the Little 
Cohas brook and engaged in lumbering. For a 
few years he used the old fashioned up-and-down 
saw, but afterward refitted his mill with modern 
machinerv. In this mill and in his cider mill he 
did considerable business for several years, until 
ill health compelled him to give up active work. 
The cider mill was destroyed by fire three times, 
and each time rebuilt. Finally, on Oct. 26, 1893, 
both mills were burned to the ground and were a 
total loss. Mr. Richardson was a strong-willed 
man, self-reliant _ 

and energetic, 
h ( ) nest and 
straightforward 
in all business 
relations. He 
was a self-made 
man, having been 
obliged to get his 
education as best 
he could. While 
still young he 
undertook the 
task of relieving 
his parents of 
their burden of 
debt, and he 
not only accom- 
plished it, but 

accumulated considerable property in London- 
derry and Manchester during his lifetime. He 
held the office of justice of the peace for forty 
years. A few years before his death he purchased 




MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM P. RICHARDSON. 



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a piece of land in Londonderry, near his home, 
which he converted into a cemetery. The lot 
which he chose for his final resting place is 
marked by a handsome granite monument, erected 
in 1892. While driving home from Manchester 
one day in the autumn of 1892, his carriage col- 
lided with another vehicle, and he was thrown out, 
sustaining injuries from which he never recovered. 
He died May 13, 1893. For many years he had 
for a neighbor one William Plumer, an eccentric 
man who lived alone much of the time, as he never 
married. Mr. Plumer was almost miserly in his 
habits, and by shrewdness and hard work accumu- 
lated considerable property. Besides farms and 
other land in Londunderrv, he had several 
tracts of real estate in Auburn, Ilooksett, and 
Manchester. He lived for many years on the 
farm adjoining the Richardson place on the north, 
formerly called the McAllister farm. He died 
Oct. 8, 1862, aged eighty years lacking one day, 
at Ebenezer Colby's, where he lived during his 
last illness. He and Mr. Richardson were grood 
neighbors and friends, and in his will, made 
shortly before his death, he appointed John W. 
Holmes and William P. Richardson executors. 
Mr. Holmes declined to serve, thus leaving- to Mr. 
Richardson the whole responsibility. It was no 
small task to care for all this property, for by the 
provisions of the will some of it was to be disposed 
of immediately, some in ten, fifteen, twenty, and 
thirty years, and some not for a much longer 
period. He was liberal in his declining years, 
willing to the Baptist church and society in Lon- 
donderry the McAllister farm, to be used as a 
parsonage, besides other bequest.s. The proper 
attention and care of this estate took considerable 
of Mr. Richardson's time, and he did not live to 
see it all settled. 

William Richardson, M. D., the son of Wil- 
liam P. Richardson, was born at the old home- 
stead in Londonderry, Feb. 26, i860. He was 
educated in the district school and at the McGaw 
Normal Institute at Reed's Ferry, N. H. When 
about twenty years of age he began the study of 
medicine and received the degree of M. D. at 
Dartmouth Medical College in November, 1883. 
He was married Aug. 27, 1884, to Esther F. 
Whidden of Auburn. For a short time he prac- 



tised medicine in Lowell, Mass., in Alexandria, 
Salisbury, and Londonderry, N. H. In June, 
1887, he located at Westford, in the town of Ash- 
ford, Conn., and built up a successful practice. 




WILLIAM RICHAKDSUN, M. D. 

On account of the serious illness of his father he 
returned to Londonderry in 1892. Three children 
have been added to their family : Florence Edna, 
born March 28, 1886; Mabel Edith, born Nov. 21, 
1S91; William Percy, born Nov. 17, 1894. 



GREENLEAF C. BARTLETT was born 
May 7, 1822, in Nottingham. He was a 
descendant, on both his father's and mother's side, 
from Revolutionary stock, his grandfather, Judge 
Thomas Bartlett, being an active participant in 
that war, and one of the most popular and distin- 
guished citizens of that town. Gen. Joseph Cilley, 
of Revolutionary fame, was Mr. Bartlett's great- 
grandfather, his daughter marrying Judge (then 
General) Bartlett. Although with the most limited 
means for obtaining an education, Mr. Bartlett 
had worked himself up to be one of the best 
lawyers of the county, and enjoyed an extensive 
and lucrative practice. He located in Derry in 
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of the town. He married Charlotte J. Kelley of 
Salem and had six children, four of whom are now 
living. 



CHARLES BARTLETT established, in 1876, 
a printing office, stationery store, and after- 
ward a drugstore, occupying the same location for 
nearly twenty years. He has built up, from humble 
beginnings, a very large and successful business. 
He has now in his employ seven persons. The 
Derry News, published by Mr. Bartlett, was 
established in 1880, and was then a four-page sheet, 
each page measuring (ixi6 inches, with four 
columns to the page. It has since been many 
times enlarged, and now contains eight pages 
15x22, six columns to the page, enjoying the 
largest circulation of any newspaper published in 
a town of like size in the state, numbering 3,000 
copies. In 1894 it absorbed the Weekly Mail, its 
only competitor. (See page 184.) 




J. p. PALMER, DERRY. 





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THE FIRST CHURCH IN NUTFIELD, 



THE oldest ora^anization with an unbroken 
history in what may be termed the Nutfield 
section of New Hampshire, — older even than the 
civil orovernment itself — is the First Church in 
Derry. Before the first settlers had secured the 
incorporation of their town, or had decided what 
name to give it, or had even obtained a satisfac- 
tory title to the land they had selected, and prob- 
ably within six weeks of the dav when the first log 
cabin was built, they took measures for the per- 
manent establishment of religious ordinances. In 
the month of May, 1719, thev organized them- 
selves into a Christian church and called the Rev. 
James MacGregor to become their pastor and 
religious teacher. The exact date of his installa- 
tion is unknown, but it was in the month of May, 
and could therefore have been but a few weeks 
after the preaching of the first sermon on the 
shore of the lake, an account of which is given on 
page 52. There being no presbytery in New 
England at that time, and it being impossible for 
them to instal their minister in the regular way, 
those Scotchmen, who were accustomed to dealing 
with emergencies, took the matter into their own 
hands and appointed a day for the solemn service. 
Where this service was held, whether in some log 
house or barn on Westrunning brook, or in the 
open air, we do not know, but Mr. MacGregor 
himself conducted the services, offering the in- 
stallation prayer and preaching the installation 
sermon. His text was from Ezekiel xxxvii. 26: 
" Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with 
them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; 
and I will place them and multiply them, and will set 
my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore." 
During the first year, as Rev. Dr. Wellman has 



pointed out, no movement seems to have been 
made by the colonists to build a house of worship. 
At a public meeting, however, held June 3, 1720, 
it was voted that a small house should be built 
" convenient for the inhabitants to meet in for the 
worship of God," and that it should be placed " as 
near the senter of the one hundred and five lots as 
can be with conveniance." The location of the 
meeting-house was definitely determined at another 
general meeting, held on the 29th of the same 
month, the site chosen being a little north of the 
present house of worship. Six months later, or 
on Jan. 11, 1721, it was voted that "a meeting- 
house shall be built in this town as speedily as 
may be," and that " it shall be fifty feet in length, 
forty-five feet broad, and as high as may be con- 
venient for one set of galleryes." For some rea- 
son, however, probably from lack of means to 
meet the cost, or because they had not yet ob- 
tained an altogether satisfactory title to the land 
selected for their town, the work of building was 
not begun until the following year. In June, 
1722, a charter was obtained, and the town incor- 
porated. It was thus about three years after the 
first log house had been erected that the church 
was completed and dedicated. During these first 
three years, however, the settlers faithfullv main- 
tained religious ordinances, holding their services 
either in one of their log dwellings or in the open 
air, as the season of the year and the weather 
might permit. This first house of worship was 
nut ])uilt witiiout great sacrifice on the part of the 
settlers, nor without some pecuniary aid from 
abroad, but it is significant of their conscientious- 
ness and devotion that in their straitened cir- 
cumstances they built a framed house of worship^ 



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" convenient and well linisheil," while they con- 
structed their own dwellings of logs and covered 
them with hark. 

For nearly fifty years the people w^orshipped 
in this first sanctuary, and in 1769, during the 
ministrv of Rev. William Davidson, a larger and 
more imposing edifice was erected. Its dimen- 
sions were si.xty-one by forty-five feet, and it 
was high enough for 

the introduction of gal- 

leries and a lofty sound- 
ing board suspended over 
the high i)ulpit. It was 
also ornamented with a 
steeple more slender and 
towering higher than the 
])resent one. This house, 
we are told, was well 
linished, and equalled, if 
it tliil not surpass, in its 
appearance, most of the 
church edifices of that 
period. The " raising " 
of the building was a 
great event. A large 
multitude of people as- 
sembled, and the parts 
of the huge, heavy-tim- 
bered frame were lifted 
into position by hun- 
dreds of strong arms 
amidst the thundering 
of commands and the 
mighty shoutings of the 
people. According to 
the custom of the time, 
a custom which to our 
modern ideas seems 

hardly consistent with earnest piety, into.xicating 
liijuors were dispensed on the occasion with lavish 
hand. How our forefathers reconciled drunken- 
ness with religion we do not know, but they did it 
successfully. 

This second house of God, l)uilt in 1769, en- 
largetl in 1822, remodelled in 1845, and renovated, 
adorned and rededicated in 1884, is still the 
home (jf the First Church in Dcrry. In this house 
Rev. Edward L. Parker preached for forty years. 




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RKV. EllWARD L. PAKKKK 



and during the first twelve years of his ministry it 
stood unchanged as it had been built in i 769. He 
has left on record a description of the interior, 
which is as follows : 

.\s you approached the pul]jit you first came to the deacons' 
seat, elevated hke the pews, about six inches from the Hoor of 
the aisles. In the deacons' narrow slip usually sat two venerable 
men, one at each end. Back of the deacons' seat, and elevated 

ten or twelve inches higher, was 
the pew of the ruling elders, 
larger than that of the elders 
and about square. Back of 
the elders' pew, and two or 
three feet higher, and against 
the wall, was the pulpit. There 
was appended to the puljiit an 
iron frame for the hour glass 
that was turned by the minis- 
ter at the commencement of 
his discourse, which was ex- 
pected to continue during the 
running of the sands. Some- 
times, when the preacher 
deemed his subject not suffi- 
ciently exhausted, the glass 
would be turned again, and 
another hour in whole or 

in part occupied In 

many of the meeting-houses 
of that day there were, on each 
side of the centre aisle and in 
front of the pulpit, two or 
three seats of sufficient length 
to accommodate eight or ten 
persons. These were designed 
for the elderly portion of the 
congregation and for such as had 
no pews. In these the men and 
women were seated separately, 
on opposite sides. On these 
plain seats our grave and de- 
vout forefathers would content- 
edly sit during a service of 
two hours, without the luxury 
of cushions or carpets, and in the colder seasons of the year 
without stoves, and in houses not so thoroughly guarded 
against the penetration of the cold as those of the present day. 

The enlargement of the church in 1822 was 
effected bv cutting the house into two parts and 
then inserting between the two parts twenty-four 
feet of new structure, thus making the building, as 
it is today, eighty-five feet in length. In this first 
change the general internal arrangement was re- 
tained. The pulpit remained on the north side, 



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and hiijh galleries on the other three sides, but the 
old sounding board over the pulpit disappeared. 
Two new front doors, about twenty-four feet 
apart, were inserted on the south side, nearly op- 
posite the pulpit, each opening into an aisle, 
whereas previously there had been but one door 
on that side, opening into one central aisle; and 
there was also a door at each end of the edifice as 
before. The new seats in the gallery facing the 
pulpit were reserved for the singers. But the old 
square pews on either side of the new ones re- 
mained, so that from 1822 until 1845 there were 
the old square pews on each end of the church, 
and between them the new straight and narrow 
slips, like a piece of new cloth on an old garment. 
The old and unusually lofty and slender steeple 
was taken down and a stronger one erected in its 
place ; and in this new steeple was hung the first 
church bell ever heard in Derry. It was the gift 
by legacy of Jacob Adams, who founded Adams 
Female Academy. 

In December, 182 1, stoves were used in the 
church for the first time. A year after the en- 
largement they were placed in the improved edi- 
fice, for the record says that on Oct. 27, 1823, it 
was voted that " one stove should be located near 
Capt. Redfield's pew, and the other near Dr. 
Farrar's pew ; and that the stove pipes should 
extend out of the windows north and south." 
Thus, for a whole century, lacking one year, the 
people of Derry worshipped, through the long cold 
winters, in an unwarmed meeting-house. The 
women sometimes used foot-stoves and heated 
hand-stones, but these were scorned by most of 
the people, even though the church was colder 
than their barns. 

In 1845, or twenty-three years after the en- 
largement of the house, another change was made. 
This time the interior was entirely reconstructed, 
by which a town hall and a vestry were provided 
below, and a spacious audience room above. The 
pulpit was transferred from the north side to the 
west end of the house, and the high galleries on 
three sides disappeared, one gallery on the east 
end, designed for the choir, taking their i)lacc. 
Instead of the two great front doors on the south 
side, two were placed at the east end of the house. 
All the old square pews, with their hinged and 



rattling seats, were replaced by the straight and 
narrow slips. The audience room was painted and 
frescoed in most excellent taste, and the general 
appearance of the interior was modernized. 

Thus the church stood until 1884, when, after 
being thoroughly repaired, renovated, and beauti- 
fied, it was rededicated. On that occasion Rev. Dr. 
J. W. Wellman, who had been pastor of the church 
from 1 85 1 until 1856, preached a notable sermon, 
in which he paid these tributes to the benefactors 
and prominent members of the church : 

First of all, it is becoming that we should gratefully remem- 
ber him through whose generous legacy, aided by gifts which his 
own benevolence prompted, this church edifice has been re- 
stored to more than its pristine beauty. Mr. David Bassett was 
the son of Thomas and Susannah ( MacGregor) Bassett. He 
was born in Deerfield, N. H., in the year :8oo. His mother 
was a descendant of the Rev. James MacGregor. With such 
blood flowing through his veins, it is not strange that he cared 
for the Lord's house. It was worthy of his noble lineage that 
he should make that bequest, by means of which the exterior 
of this sanctuary has been thoroughly repaired and the interior 
elegantly renovated. As I remember Mr. Bassett, he was a man 
of few words, quiet in his disposition, living an unobtrusive life, 
but was not unthoughtful of divine and eternal things. For a 
time he was the se.xton of this church, and the interest he then 
came to take in the church edifice seems never to have died out. 
And in his advanced years, when he observed the sad wear of time 
upon the ancient building, it was not unnatural that he should raise 
the question of his own duty to repair the house of the Lord. 
In his early life, if I am correctly informed, he had some reli- 
gious experience which made an ineffaceable impression upon 
his mind, but he never made any public profession of Christian faith 
until the year 1876, when he united with this church by con- 
fession of Christ. And may we not hope that his gift by will for 
the repairing and adorning of the Lord's house was designed to 
be an offering expressive of his own love and gratitude to his 
redeemer. 

Mr. Bassett's name is not inscribed upon these walls, but 
this communion table and this externally and internally reno- 
vated sanctuary are his fitting memorial. 

The three men, James C. Taylor, Charles H. Day, and 
Frank W. Parker, whom he made trustees of his legacy and on 
whom he placed the responsibility of deciding what repairs 
should be made. Have had a delicate and difficult task to per- 
form. With what fidelity and wisdom they have performed their 
trust, this transformed and beautifully adorned house of worship 
testifies today. These gentlemen deserve, and, I am sure, will 
receive, your sincere and grateful acknowledgements. 

But others have supplemented Mr. Bassett's legacy by 
timely and noble gifts. This new and tasteful pulpit furniture, 
presented by the family of Deacon Daniel J. Day, tenderly 
reminds us of one who loved and faithfully served this church, 
but has now entered into the communion and service of the 
church triumphant. 



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These memorial windows, so ricii in artistic beauty, and 
tasteful, suggestive symbols, are richer still in the names they 
bear. To give any just account of the characters and lives 
which these names represent would require a volume. I can 
only allude to them. 

Nothing can be more ajiproiiriate than that the memory 
of the first pastor of this church, the Rev. James MacGregor, 
and of his devoted wife, Marion Cargill, should be honored in 
this house of worship. Tradition represents him as every way 
a noble man. 'I'all, erect, athletic, he swayed peojile by his 
commanding personal presence. Distinguished for his mental 
ability and self-control, for wisdom and goodness, manly energy 
and courage, for sagacity and ]irudence in secular and civil 
affairs; a man of sincere and humble piety; thoroughly evan- 
gelical in his faith ; an able and elocjuent preacher of the gospel ; 
a devoted pastor, loving his people as he loved his own family, 
and interested in all that 
concerned his tlock, he 
was eminently fitted to be 
the father of this church, 
anil the acknowledged 
leader of that noble band 
of men who founded this 
town. The members of 

this church rejoice toda\- ^ 

that his name and minis- 
try are commemorated in 
this house of worship. 

But the same radiant 
window is rich in other 
historic names. The Rev. 
David MacGregor, a son 
of the first pastor of this 
church, was himself the 
first pastor of the church 
in the West Parish, now 
the Presbyterian church in 
the modern town of Lon- 
donderry. He was or- 
dained in 1737. The son 

inherited largely the commanding al)ilities and noble s])irit of his 
fither. His ministry was eminently evangelistic. He preached 
and labored for the salvation of his people. Sympathizing with 
the great evangelist, George Whitefield, he invited him to his 
pulpit : and his own fervid preaching and prayers were rewarded 
with revivals of religion. He labored with the church in the 
West Parish until his death, which occurred in 1777. The 
length of his able and faithful pastorate was forty years. It 
is fitting that the name of this distinguished son of the first 
pastor of this church, and also that of his accomplished wife, 
Mary Boyd, should have an honorable place in this Christian 
.sanctuary. 

On this same window is the name of Gen. George Reid 
who with Gen. John Stark, both of Londonderry, attained high 
fame in the Revolutionary war. He was the son of James Reid. 
The father was a native of Scotland and a graduate of the Uni- 
versity of Edinburgh. He was one of the first settlers of Derrv, 




VIEW OF DERRY VII.L.^GE, 



a member of the First Chuich, and (jf its session. Afterward, 
for many years, he was an elder of the church in the West 
Parish. His famous son. Gen. Reid, was himself a Christian 
man, and through all the years of his military service under Gen. 
Washington, evinced a firm faith in the efficacy of jirayer, as 
in the potency of arms. His wife, Mary Woodburn, was in every 
way worthy of her noble husband. She is described as a woman 
of rare endowments. Gen. Stark, who knew her well, once 
remarked : '"If there is a woman in New Hampshire fit for gov- 
ernor, "tis Molly Reid." This church honors itself in receiving 
her name, with the historic name of her husband, uijon one of 
its memorial windows. 

There is likewise recorded upon this window the name of 
Col. Robert MacGregor. He was the son of Rev. David Mac- 
fjregor. In the war of the Revolution he was on the staff' of 
Gen. John Stark. His wife, Elizabeth Reid. whose name is 

placed with his on this roll 
of honor, was the daugh- 
ter of Gen. George Reid. 
On the lower part of 
this same window — so 
brilliant in both its beauty 
and its names — we find 
' commemorated the Rev. 
John Ripley Adams, D. D., 
and his wife, Mary Ann 
MacGregor; also Mrs. 
.Adams's two sisters, Maria 
MacGregor Cogswell, and 
Elizabeth MacGregor Hall. 
Dr. Adams, born 1802, in 
Plainfield, Conn., graduat- 
ing from Yale College in 
1 82 1 and from Andover 
Seminary in 1826, was for 
seven years — from i S3 1 
to 1838 — pastor of the 
Presbyterian church in 
Londonderr)'. He was 
afterward pastor of 
churches in Great F'alls. Brighton, Mass., Gorham, Me. In the 
War of the Rebellion he was chaplain for three years of the Fifth 
Maine Regiment, and for one year of the One Hundred and 
Twenty-first New York Regiment. He died at Northampton, 
Mass., in 1866. He was an accomplished man, genial and s}m- 
])athetic, an able preacher, and much beloved. Mrs. .\dams and 
her two sisters, Mrs. Cogswell and Mrs. Hall, were daughters of 
Col. Robert MacGregor and Elizabeth Reid. Their grandfather on 
their father's side was Rev. David Macgregor, son of Rev. James 
MacGregor, and their grandfather on their mother's side was 
Gen. George Reid. Noble and cultured women were these, and 
worthy of the honored name they bore. All the grand memories 
of this town and of this church of their fathers were dear to 
them, and they themselves are tenderly remembered by many 
now living. 

The new memorial windows are five in number. .All of 
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such windows in any church outside the cities in New England : 
and probably those in the cities that excel them in magnificence 
are not numerous. 

The MacGregor window was given by Mr. James Mac- 
Gregor Adams of Chicago, 111. On the upper half of it, at the 
left, is seen the family coat of arms, with the Scotch motto : 
" E'en do bait spair nocht." Beneath this are the names. Rev. 
James McGregor ; his wife, Marion Cargil. And below these 
are the names. Rev. David MacGregor ; his wife, Mary Boyd. 
On the lower half, at the left, are first a dove as an emblem, and 
then the names, Maria MacGregor Cogswell, Elizabeth Mac- 
Gregor Hall. On the upper half of the window, at the right, 
are seen as emblems the Stars and Stripes and a sword. Beneath 
these are the names. Gen. George Reid ; his wife, Mary Wood- 
burn. And below these are the names. Col. Robert Mac- 
Gregor ; his wife, Elizabeth Reid. On the lower half, at the 
right, is, first, the emblem of an open Bible with two swords 
crossed ; and then below the emblem are the names. Rev. John 
Ripley Adams, D. D.; his wife, Mary Ann MacGregor. 

A resplendent window has also been placed in these walls, 
" In loving memory of James and Persis Taylor." These names 
are too familiar and dear to us all to need any words of praise 
from me. But permit me to say, that Deacon James Taylor 
was a member of the church session when I assumed the pas- 
torate of this church in 1851. I knew him well. He was a 
good man and true. He had in his character the old-fashioned 
Scotch honesty and steadfaslneiis. He always made himself 
understood, and everybody knew where to find him. A man of 
sound, practical judgment, he was often ajjpointed arbiter in the 
settlement of disinites. Always calm and self-posse: sed, he was 
yet a man of deep feeling and had a large and kind heart. He 
was l)eloved in his own family, a true friend, public-spirited, 
greatly respected and honored in the town, and always faithful 
to his trust as an ofiice-bearer in the Church of Christ. He 
loved this church, and to the jiromotion of its interests he was 
thoroughly devoted. 

His beloved wife, Mrs. Persis Taylor, while like her husband 
possessed of strong and sterling trails of character, was also a 
woman of tender heart and far-reaching sympathies. The chief 
arena of her power and life work was her home. There she 
reigned supreme. And as her reward, she had every right to 
glory in her children, and her " children rise up and called her 
blessed." Though the mother of a large family, she was also a 
mother in Israel. Ardently loving her own household and kin- 
dred, and always laboring and praying for their highest welfare, 
she yet took an affectionate interest in her neighbors, in the 
church of which she was a member, in her pastor, in all Chris- 
tian institutions and service, and in every person to whom she 
could be helpful. She never seemed despondent. She carried 
good cheer with her wherever she went. Never shall I forget 
the motherly and encouraging words she repeatedly s])oke to me 
during the first years of my pastorate. Many of the noblest traits 
of Deacon and Mrs. James Taylor were reproduced in the 
character of their distinguished son, Samuel Harvey Taylor. 
LL.D., so long the principal of Phillips Academy, Andover. 
How pleasant it is to see these two names honored in this house 
of prayer, wheie they together for so many years, and with such 
regularity and devoutness, worshipped God. 



This window was the gift of Mrs. Mary E. (Taylor) Fair- 
banks of St. Johnsbury, Vt. The symbols in the upper part are, 
at the left, flowers, and, at the right, the cross and crown. 
Beneath these, but far down on the window is the inscrijition : 
" In loving memory of James and Persis Taylor, by their 
children.'' 

We read upon another of these memorial windows the 
name of Deacon Henry Taylor, by the side of the name of one 
of his own dear kindred. He was a John-like man. It is diffi- 
cult to believe that he ever had an enemy in the world, so 
sweet, gentle, and loving was his disposition. Having no family 
of his own to care for, he took everybody into his capacious 
heart. All the people in the town fondly called him " Uncle 
Henry." He greatly loved Christ, and was the true friend of 
the church and of his pastor. Very tender is the memory of his 
benignant face and of his reverent, trustful prayers. The donor 
of this memorial window is Mr. James Calvin Taylor. For placing it 
in the house of the Lord, in honor of his beloved uncle, he will 
receive the gratitude of all his kindred and of the many friends 
of Deacon Henry Taylor. The window bears upon its upper 
part simply the Greek, symbolic letters. Alpha, Omega. In 
the lower portion, at the left, we read the name. Deacon Henry 
Taylor, and at the right. Family of James Calvin Taylor. 

Two sisters, maiden ladies, Jennette and Sarah Humphrey, 
sisters of the venerated and beloved Deacon John Humphrey, 
dwelt together for many yeais quietly and lovingly in their little 
cottage in this Upper Village. Like Mary and Martha of 
Bethany, the one silent and thoughtful, the other not less 
thoughtful but more energetic and demonstrative, they were well 
mated, each supplying the lack of the other. Little had they to 
do with the great and wide world. They lived alone in their 
own loved home, and yet not alone, for the Lord Jesus was with 
them as with the sisters in Bethany, speaking his words in the'r 
ears and breathing his spirit into their hearts. They were ac- 
customed to speak evil of no one, but abounded in kind words 
and deeds, ready always to minister to the sick and needy, the 
bereaved and troubled. They were frugal, yet saved not for 
themselves, but for Christ and his Kingdom. Their names were 
never sounded abroad in the public prints, but their Christian 
bepevolence has reached round the globe. 

Now these two humble disciples, living apart from the 
world, so contentedly and lovingly, hardly known beyond the 
limits of this church and parish, were about the last persons to 
have ever dreamed that their names would be emblazoned at 
some future day in the midst of indescribable splendors of color 
in the house of God. And had some prophet told them 
that this honor awaited them, they would have been as 
much surprised as they will be when Christ at the last 
day shall recount before the universe all their little deeds 
of kind ministration and love, and they shall reply: 
•' When did we do all these things ? " But this glory which has 
come to them, as well as that which will be the S])iritual and 
eternal halo of their names in heaven, is explained by those 
words of Jesus : " Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the 
least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me." This 
window was presented by Mrs. James Calvin Taylor. On the 
top, at the left, is the emblem of the dove, and at the right, cf 
the harp. At the bottom of the window are simply the two 



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names, Jennette Humphrey, Sarah Humphrey. Deacon John 
Humphrey, the brother of tliose two Christian women, was the 
father of Rev. John P. Humphrey of Winchendon, Mafs., and 
of Rev. Simon J. Humphrey, D. D., of Chicago, 111. 

Since leaving the pastorate of this church I have known 
many good people, Cod's saints on earth, the prospect of meet- 
ing whom beyond this life helps to a better understanding of 
heaven. But none have I met, who, so far as I can judge, sur- 
jjassed in unselfishness and kindness, in sincerity and honorable- 
ness, in unfailing geniality and good will, in Christian simplicity 
and trustworthiness, in genuine goodness, in unaffected piety, 
and in all real worth of character, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. 
Parker. Living in their happy home five years, I yet have no 
recollection of hearing either of them speak a single angry or 
improper word. If compelled to listen to hard or uncharitable 
speech, they either gently demurred or were silent. They knew 
the worth and sacredness of friendship, and how to be them- 
selves true friends. I'hey 
made advances cautiously, but 
having once given their 
friendship they would sooner 
have cut off a right hand 
than have proved false. Mr. 
Parker had lived so long in a 
minister's family, and was so 
familiar with all the labors 
and anxieties of a pastor for 
his people, that he seemed to 
take the entire care of this 
church and parish upon his 
own mind and heart. And 
his wife had learned to bear 
her full share of the same 
burden. They were never 
tired of thinking, talking, and 
])lanning for the good of this 
people. And had they been 
my own brother and sister, 
it is difficult to see how they 
could have been morean.xious 
for the success of my ministry, 
with the parish, and utterly inexperienced in the ministry, their 
counsels, so kindly and courteously expressed, were invaluable. 
From whatever mistakes I was saved, and if there was any wis- 
dom or worth in my pastoral service here, the people were in- 
debted for it more to them than to me. 

Their house was a house of prayer. Christ had long made 
Ills abode there, and all the rooms seemed to be the realms of 
gentleness and love. It is well that the names of these two 
friends of Christ and of his church should be made conspicuous 
in this house of God, that those who worship here may often look 
upon them, and receive the inspiration that must come from 
the sweet memory of their Christian kindness and fidelity, their 
friendship and piety. This memorial window was placed in the 
church by their son, Frank W. Parker. At the top of the win- 
dow, on the left, is the representation of an open Bible, and on 
the right the symbol is the anchor. At the bottom of the 



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window are the two names, Charles C. Parker, Sarah Taylor 
Parker. 

With all these appropriate memorials, now making this 
place of worship so beautiful, there would still be a sad lack here, 
were one more name not honorably inscribed upon these walls. 
True, many are the departed worthies who might fittingly be 
commemorated in the house of God. I should wish, for 
instance, as doubtless you all vvould, to see illumined upon some 
of these windows, instead of the names of two, the names of all 
the members of that church session which I found here in 1851. 
They were rare men, and eminently worthy of such honor. 
Still every one of you will agree with me in saying that no name 
has any clearer right to have honorable jilace in this sanctuary 
than that of Rev. Edward L. Parker. I need not speak of him 
in this presence. Words better than any that I can utter you 
can read from the tablet of marble placed upon the wall at 
the right of the pulpit, and which now so appropriately com- 
memorates his character ai d 
liis ministry of forty years 
w ilh this church. 

The inscription upon the 

tablet is as follows : " In 

\ • U '«• ' ' *• K ■^.^iaatsLj niemoriam. The Reverend 

/V X'fm. * filltij^^^^ Edward L. Parker, born July 

28, 1785, graduated at Dart- 
mouth 1807, died July 14, 
1850. For forty years the 
faithful and beloved pastor of 
this church. He possessed in 
a high degree sound judg 
ment and discretion, remark- 
able wisdom and piudence, 
shrewdness and tact, com- 
bined with kindness of man- 
ner, humility, perseverance 
and untiring industry. Plain, 
])ractical preaching, crowned 
by ardent piety, and devo- 
tion to his work, made him a 
man of mark and great use- 
fulness. ' They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of 
the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness, as the 
stars for ever and ever.' " 

Dr. Wcllman narrates an incident of his or- 
dination which finely illustrates the sturdy charac- 
ter of the board of deacons in 185 i. He says: 

Deacon James 'I'aylor and his brother. Deacon Henry 
Taylor, were for many years members of the church session. 
Associated wiih them in office were Deacons Matthew Clark, 
Robert Morse, John Humphrey, Joseph Jenness, the two 
brothers, James and Humphrey Choate, William Ela, Robert 
Montgomery, and William Cogswell, eleven in all. When full 
the session consisted of twelve elders or deacons. In 1851,311 
the above named men were living, and enrolled as members of 
the session. Two of them, however. Deacons Morse and Clark, 



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by reason of age and infirmity, were not active members. Prac- 
tically, at that time, the session consisted of nine members. A 
few years later Deacon Cogswell removed to Manchester, and 
Mr. George Shute was elected a member of the session. .\11 
these deacons, save Deacon Cogswell and Deacon Shute, have 
now entered into the goodly fellowship of the church triumph- 
ant. They were noble and godly men. Sturdy in character 
and honorable in life, wise in counsel and of grave and devout 
spirit, they were much respected in both the church and the 
town. Of positive convictions, strong will, and of great 
decision of character, they were yet remarkable for their Chris- 
tian gentleness and courtesy. Very beautiful was their treat- 
ment of one another. Their mutual love and Christian fellow- 
ship were not demonstrative, but were real and abiding. It is 
pleasant to bear tlnis testimony, that in all tlie numerous and 
often protracted meetings of the session during five years, to the 
best of my recollection, the deacons were never, in a single 
instance, divided in voting, and not a single unlcind or bitier 
word was ever spoken. They were not always of the same mind 
at the outset, and not unfrequently a long debate, or rather 
ci'nference, preceded their final decision; but wlien they 
came to the vote and to action, their harmony was per- 
fect. They were not timid or vacillating men. When 
need required they acted with great boldness and energy. 
'I'his was illustrated by an incident which occurred at the 
meeting of the ecclesiastical council on the day of my 
oi-dination. Some of the good Presbyterian brethren on 
the council erroneously supposed that the ihurch was a strictly 
Presbyterian church, and under the care of the Londonderry 
presbyter)'. They therefore made a formal remonstrance against 
the action of the church in calling a council instead of the ]ircs- 
bytery, and against the [iroposed examination and ordination of 
the pastor elect by the council assembled. Rev. .-^mos Klan- 
chard, D. D., of Lowell, was moderator. A large congregation 
filled the church. Tlie excitement was intense. .W\ the active 
members of the session were present, and sitting together in 
pews at the left of the moderator. When the remonstrants had 
fullv presented their case the moderator turned to the deacons 
and said : " You hear the objection which has been made to the 
action of your church and to the proposed action of this council. 
What is the desire of the session ?" The deacons, without leav- 
ing their seats, consulted together for a moment. Instantly they 
appointed Deacon John Humphrey their spokesman. Deacon 
Humphrey, a man of great weight of character, of perfect self- 
command and of imposing presence, being over six feet in height, 
rising slowly and with solemnity from his seat, and stretching 
himself u]) to his full length, with a calm, firm voice and great 
courtesy of manner, said, as nearly as his words can be remem- 
bered : "Mr. Moderator, — This is not a strictly Presbyterian 
church. Though governed by a session, it is not under the 
government of any presbytery. This council has been called 
in exact accordance with certain 'Articles of Agreement ' by 
which this church in a few important particulars is governed. 
Our late pastor, the late Rev. Edward L. Parker, was ordained 
forty years ago by a council, and not by the presbytery. We 
have taken the same course that was taken then. A council was 
called then, a council has been called now. And, Mr. Moder- 



ator, the desire of the session is, that this council proceed at 
once to examine the young man whom we have called to be our 
pastor ; and if he shall be found fitted for the office, we desire 
that he be ordained and installed. And if this council does not 
do this, we shall call a council that will." 

Slowly Deacon Humphrey resumed his seat. Some of the 
members of the council smiled. The deacons did not smile. 
They meant business. They knew their rights and liberties, and 
that such things were sacred, and not to be trifled with by any- 
body. Nothing more was said upon the question raised by the 
remonstrants. The council proceeded at once to its appointed 
work, according to the directions given by the nine venerable 
men who sat in the corner of the church. 

This incident discloses, in several particulars, the character 
of that board of deacons. They had the Scotch staunchness, 
decision, and energy. It was sometimes said of them that they 
were slow men, but in emergencies they moved swiftly and with 
irresistible force. They were not educated in the higher school-, 
but they were intelligent. The Bible was their study. Some of 
them were versed in theology, and could define sharply the 
variances of the New England theology from other systems. 
The New England theology was accepted by them because they 
believed it to be scriptural, and also because they believed it to 
lie substantially that interpretation of the Scriptures which 
through the ages has stood the test of being judged by its fruits. 
The Bible they accepted as the Word of God. The modern 
glib talk about the mistakes of Moses and the prophets, and the 
blunders of Paul and the Evangelists, would have shocked them 
beyond measure. The statement now made with such nonchalance 
111 limited circles, ihat Christ was either in error in some of his 
religious teachings, or was incorrectly reported by the Evan- 
gelists, would have been regarded by them as blasphemous. If 
even a theological professor had said to them. You must accept 
my view of the utter untrustworthiness of the Bible in some of 
its religious teachings, or you must stand convicted of being 
bent on ignorance, he probably would not have said that to 
them a second time. 

But while they were bold and persistent in maintaining the 
truth, and in standing for what they knew to be right, they were 
yet men of rare tenderness and kindness of heart. They were 
also reverent before God. Sincere humility was a prominent ele- 
ment in their piety. Their prayers abounded in confessions. 
They had profound convictions of sin. In their view, dis- 
obedience to God was appalling wickedness. They were always 
solemn and afraid at the thought of sin. They believed that 
" God is love," but they also believed that " Our God is a con- 
suming fire." They accepted without a doubt the scriptural 
teaching that the just punishment of sin is the abiding wrath of 
God, death everlasting. These profound views of sin and of its 
demerit determined their personal relation to Christ. With 
great joy and gratitude, and with a deep sense of their inex- 
pressible obligations to him, they believed on the Lord Jesus for 
the forgiveness of sins and for the life everlasting. They hun- 
gered and thirsted after righteousness, and therefore attached the 
highest value to all means of grace, especially to the Sabbath 
and the sanctuary as appointed of God to aid men in the attain- 
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being stern and gloomy men. They were delightfully social in 
disposition and habits. Their words were often playful, and 
they told and relished good stories. Of despondency they knew 
little. Their hearts were full of courage. In earlier years they 
may have had sijiritual conflicts; but now their kindly, cheerful 
faces, and all their external bearing told of the peace of God 
that reigned within. They were thoioughly possessed of the 
spirit of worship. One of them at least seldom or never entered 
the house of God without pausing for a moment, after passing 
the door of the auditorium, and lifting his eye heavenward, as if 
he were saying : "This is none other than the house of God, and 
this is the gate of heaven." And immediately upon entering 
his pew he bowed his head in silent prayer. The devoutness of 
those aged and venerable deacons was not official, not assumed 
nor formal ; it was in the heart, and therefore in the life. They 
were men of lordly will, but in the presence of God they had the 
spirit of little children. . . . Those members of that church 
session did not seek ])ersonal influence, it was theirs before they 
knew it. But they shrunk from no obligation, were faithful to 
every trust, and lived in humble but joyful liope of the promised 
inheritance of the saints in heaven. 

The First Church has been one of the strong- 
est in the denomination. At a sacrament in 1734, 
fifteen years after the settlement of the town, 700 
communicants were present. This number, how- 
ever, must have included manv non-resident mem- 
bers and friends. Several other congregations 
have been formed from the parent church. In 
1739 a company was dismissed to constitute the 
West Parish (Presbyterian) in Londonderrv. In 
1797 the Third Society (Congregational) was or- 
ganized in the East Parish, and in 1837 forty more 
were dismissed to form the First Congregational 
Church in Derry Village. In 1809, however, the 
Third Society re-united with the mother church, 
forming what is now known as the First Church 
in Derry. June 8, 18 10, the joint society formally 
adopted articles of faith, which, in spite of all 
theological upheavals of the last half-century, are 
still the creed of the church. Their reproduction 
here, in view of the current discussion of creeds, 
may not be without interest : 

I. We believe that there is but one God, the sole creator, 
preserver, and moral governor of the universe ; a being of infinite 
power, knowledge, wisdom, justice, goodness, and truth ; the 
self-existent, independent and unchangeable fountain of good ; 
that there are in the unity of the Godhead a trinity of persons. 
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; that these three persons are in 
essence one, and in all divine attributes equal. 

II. We believe that the scriptures of the Old and New 
Testament were given by inspiration of God ; that they are 
profitable for doctrine, contain a complete and harmonious sys- 



tem of divine truth, and are our only perfect rule of doctrinal 
belief and religious practice. 

III. We believe that the first parents of our race were orig- 
inally holy in the image of God ; that they fell from their 
original state by voluntarily transgressing the divine command ; 
and that in conseciuence of this first apostacy the heart of man 
in his natural state is enmity against God, fully set to do evil, 
dead in trespasses and sins. 

IV. We believe that Christ the Son of God, equal with the 
Father, has by his obedience, suffering, and blood, made infinite 
atonement for sin ; that he is the only redeemer of sinners, and 
that all who are saved will be indebted altogether to the 
sovereign grace of God through this atonement. 

V. We believe that those who embrace the gospel were 
chosen in Christ to salvation before the world began ; and that 
they are saved not by works of righteousness v.hich they have 
done, but according to the distinguishing mercy of God, by the 
washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost. 

VI. We believe that for those who once believe in Christ 
there is no condemnation, but they will be kept by the mighty 
power of God through faith unto salvation. 

VII. We believe that there will be a general resurrection 
of the bodies both of the just and of the unjust ; that all mankind 
must one day stand before the judgment seat of Christ, to 
receive a sentence of just and final retribution, according to 
their respective works. 

VIII. We believe that Christ has a visible church in the 
world into which believers and their seed are introduced by 
baptism. 

During the IOrt\' years' pastorate of Rev. 
Edward L. Parker (a sketch of whose life is given 
in this work), the church was unusually jirosper- 
ous. At the January communion in 1S25, thirty- 
six were added to the church; in October, 183 1, 
thirty-three were received, and in May, 1838, 
ninety-six. Since the death of Mr. Parker, in 
1850, the pastorates have been brief, compared 
with his. Six of the pastors repose in the old 
graveyard near the meeting-house, surrounded by 
most of their flocks. The chronological record of 
pastorates of the first church is as follows: James 
MacGregor, began May, 1719; died March 5, 1729. 
Matthew Clark, began 1729; closed 1732. Thomas 
Thompson, ordained October, 1733; died Sept. 
22, 1738. William Davidson, ordained 1739; died 
Feb. 15, 1 791. Jonathan Brown, ordained 1795; 
dismissed September, 1804. Edward L. Parker, 
ordained Sept. 12, 1810; died July 14, 1850. 
Joshua W. Wellman, ordained June 18, 1851 ; dis- 
missed Mav 26, 1836. Ephraim N. Hidden (acting 
pastor), Sept. i, 1857, till Dec. i, 1859. Leonard 
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10, 1S69. David Brcmncr, installed April 27, 
1871 ; dismissed Sept. 10, 1873. Edward S. Hunt- 
ress, installed Feb. 25, 1875; dismissed Feb. 21, 
1877. J. L. Harris, installed Jul\' 8, 1880; dis- 
missed July 8, 1882. H. M. Fenniman, settled April 
8, 1884; dismissed June 19, 1889. R. C. Drisko 
(acting pastor), Feb. i, 1891, till April i, 1894. The 
present membership of tiie ehurch is 132 ; Sabbath 
school, sixty-five ; Christian Endeavor, thirty-five. 




MRS. MARY J. TF.NNEV, CKN. .STARK S (IRANDDAUGHTER. 
Photographed at her home in Londonderry, 1^94. 



DEV. WILLIAM McDONALD, the pioneer 
^ ^ Catholic priest of Manchester, who laid well 
the ft)undations of the present prosperity of Cath- 
olicity in the Queen City, and whose memory is 
held in loving regard by thousands, was born in 
county Leitrim, Ireland, in June, 1813. He was 
the youngest son of John and Winifred (Reynolds) 
McDonald, and the first twenty-three years of his 
life were spent with his parents. In 1836 he went 
to Quebec, beginning at once his studies at the 
Laval University. He took the academic and 
theological courses. He was ordained in 1843 and 
assigned as assistant to the parish priest at St. 
John, N. B., having charge subsequentlv of the 
parishes at Eastport and Calais, Me. In 1847 he 
went to Boston, and in the following year was 
assigned to Manchester by Bishop Fitzpatrick of 
Boston, to which diocese New Hampshire then 
belonged. Father McDonald found on his arrival 
about five hundred Catholics, almost all of whom 
were Irish, but lately arrived in the country. They 
were very poor, but they extended to their " sog- 
garth " an Irish welcome, sincere and hearty, and 
pastor and people with a united purpose began 
their arduous task of building up the Catholic 
Church of Manchester. W'ithin a year he had 
l)egun the erection of St. Anne's church, on the 
site it now occupies, and from that time to his 
tleath there was scarcely a year that he did not 
inaugurate some improvement of lasting benefit to 
the church. He was a man of remarkable fore- 
sight, and had unlimited confidence in the future 
of Manchester — so much so that he early began 
to buv land intended for future use as church 
propertv, and to this is due the fact that the church 
is now possessed of so much valuable real estate. 
In 1853 he purchased St. Joseph's cemetery, and in 
1855 he bought the land where the convent stands, 
l)uilt the beautiful Mt. St. Mary's, and, two years 
later, installed therein a small band of Sisters of 
Mercv. In 1859 he secured the property at the 
northwest corner of Laurel and Union streets, for 
a parochial school for girls, and established in the 
same year a school for boys in the church base- 
ment, over which he placed Frof. Thomas Cor- 
coran as principal and the Sisters of Mercy as 
teachers. A few years later he procured the use 
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this building the boys' school was removed and 
became known as the Park-street grammar school. 
This was one of the first parochial schools in New 
England. Father McDonald bought the present 
site of St. Joseph's Cathedral, established a new^ 
parish and built St. Joseph's church in 1869. The 
next year witnessed the purchase of the Harris 
estate, at the corner of Pine and Hanover streets, 
and the establishment of St. Patrick's Orphan 




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Asylum for Girls. A little later he secured the ad- 
joining property and founded the Old Ladies' Home. 
He also built St. Agnes school, at the corner of 
Cedar and Union streets. He was the founder 
and promoter of the St. John's Temperance 
Society (since merged in the St. Paul's C. T. A. 
and M. B. Society), of St. Patrick's M. B. and P. 
Society, and of numerous church sodalities and 
associations. 

In Father McDonald were combined the 
elements of which the most successful professional 
and business men are made, and there is little 
doubt that, had he chosen a mercantile or profes- 
sional life, he would have become a very wealthy 



man. As it was, he died poor. He did not care 
for the wealth he gathered except as it was a 
means of doing good. 

He was stricken with apoplexy early Monday 
morning, Aug. 24, 1885, and died Aug. 26. The 
mourning at his death was genuine and universal. 
Protestants and Catholics alike, rich and poor, 
high and low, recognized that Manchester had lost 
one whom she could ill afford to lose. Saturday, 
Aug. 29, the day of his funeral, was a day of public 
mourning. The mills were closed, and business 
generally was suspended. The funeral was at- 
tended by the mayor and city government, judges 
of the supreme court of New Hampshire and of 
the United States district court, Protestant minis- 
ters, bishops and priests from all parts of New 
England, and business men of every creed and 
race. Pontifical requiem mass was celebrated by 
Rt. Rev. Bishop Bradley, assisted by a host of 
priests in sanctuary and choir. In the course of 
his sermon Bishop Bradley said : " I have lost one 
who has been to me from my childhood a father, 
a model, a wise counselloi'," and he echoed the 
thoughts and feelings of every Catholic born or 
bred in Manchester. Father McDonald was 
buried in the churchyard of old St. Anne's, the 
church he loved, and wdierein he ministered for 
nearlv forty vears. Over his grave has been 
erected a little chapel, and here one may find at 
any hour of the day some of his people kneeling 
in silent prayer. 

His life work was a success. He lived to see 
the city of his adoption grow from scarcelv more 
than a hamlet to be the first municipality of north- 
ern New England. From the poor, struggling 
little parish of St. Anne's he saw the church in- 
crease until it had more communicants and main- 
tained more charitable institutions than all the 
other churches of the city combined ; and, to crown 
it all, made a diocesan see, and one of " his own 
boys" chosen its first bishop. He was the friend 
and confidant o[ his whole parish. No undertak- 
ing was entered into without the advice of Father 
" Mac," and no case was too trivial to enlist his 
earnest attention and secure his wholesome advice. 
He was judge, jurv, and advocate in the trial of 
many a cause, and never was a judgment given 
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were not satisfied as to the absolute iini)artialitv of 
the tribunal. His eharity was not 

" — scrimped and iced, 
In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ." 

but was the natural outpourinir of a (renerous, 
sympathetic heart that knew no creed or race. 
He saw only needy suffering, and suffered himself 
if he could not alleviate. 

Father McDonald is best remembered as a 
man in declining years, about medium height, 
slightly stooped, with white hair and a kindly, 
benevolent face that at once inspired confidence. 
Through his old-fashioned bowed spectacles gazed 
a pair of eyes, anxious, one would sa)^ to see 
nought of sin and niiserv in the world, and vet 
they saw and appreciated everything within 
their range, while an occasional twinkle in the 



corners would indicate that " though a priest, he 
was an Irishman too," and had all the Irishman's 
love for bright repartee or good story. The best 
evidence of his universal acquaintance and popu- 
larity was to be seen by accompanying him on one 
of his daily strolls through his parish. With the 
regulation clerical coat and collar he always wore 
a soft broad-brimmed hat and carried a cane or 
umbrella. He walked along with a slow, deliber- 
ate stride, and scarcely a person would be met but 
Father " Mac " had a word with him. His intimate 
acquaintance with the personal affairs of nearly 
every family made these little talks pertinent and 
to the point, relative to some matter or other of 
importance. And all in the sweetest of English, 
that is, slightly tinctured with the Irish brogue. 
Father McDonald's memorv will evei' he- dear to 
the Catholics of Manchester. 

James A. Bkudkkick. 




CITY LIBRARY, MANCHESTER. 



DR. WILLIAM WHITTIER BROWN, 



WILLIAM WHITTIER BROWN, M. D., 
was born in Vershire, Vt., in 1805. 
His education was obtained at the academies of 
Bradford and Randolph in his native state and at 
Hudson, N. Y. He taught school for two years 
in the latter state, and at the age of twenty-three 
began the study of medicine with Dr. John Poole 
at Bradford, Vt. After attending lectures at 
Hanover he was graduated from the New Hamp- 
shire Medical Institution in 1830, and at once went 
in Poplin (now Fremont), N. H., remaining there 
until 1835, when he removed to Chester, where 
during his ten years' residence he built up an ex- 
tensive practice and enjoyed the confidence of the 
people. Desirous of supplementing his early ad- 
vantages by further study, he went to New York 
in 1845 and attended a course of lectures and dili- 
gently followed the best clinical teachers through 
the hospitals. His fifteen years' practice had 
revealed to him his deficiencies, and he labored 
zealously to remove them, finally returning to New 
Hampshire with his mind well stored with new 
ideas and all the recent improvements in surgery 
and practice. In 1846 he moved to Manchester 
and soon had all he could do, manv of his former 
patients in Chester and the neighboring towns 
having- gone to the city before him, and manv 
more still insisting that he should be their reliance 
in distress. To meet these demands of his old 
friends he was obliged to start very earlv in the 
morning in order to be back in time for his day's 
work in the city. Very few men could have 
endured these long journeys in all kinds of weather 
as he did, uncomplainingly even in advanced life. 
Dining portions of 1849 and 1850 he was in 
California for one year practising his profession. 
He returned with a handsome amount of money, 
which he invested in Manchester real estate, erect- 
ing the brick block on Elm street, known as 
Brown's building. In 1861 he was appointed sur- 
geon of the Seventh New Hampshire \"olunteers 
and served until the autumn of 1864, when he was 
obliged to resign on account of ill health. He 
was exceedingly popular with officers and men and 
a camp was named in his honor. He never fully 
recovered his health, and he also received an injury 



for which he might easily have obtained a per- 
manent pension, but he never applied for it. He 
was appointed pension surgeon, a position which 
he held only a short time. Dartmouth College 
conferred upon him the honorary degree of A. M. 
in recognition of his professional ability. He was 
a member of the Franklin-Street Congregational 
church, and always contributed liberally to the 
support of religion. Dr. Brown was elected a 
fellow of the New Hampshire Medical Society in 
1836, and was chosen its president in 1869. He 
was a director of the First National liank, a trustee 
of the Merrimack River Savings bank, a member 
of the Washington Lodge of Masons and of Louis 
Bell Post No. 3, G. A. R. He survived all his 
children, leaving only a widow, Mrs. Martha W. 
Brown. His death occurred Jan. 6, 1874, at the 
age of sixty-eight years. He was a man of few 
words, easily approached, yet retiring; ready to im- 
part information, yet never volunteering it; modest, 
vet self-possessed ; dignified in bearing, yet utterly 
devoid of ostentation in dress or mode of living. 
He was remarkably even-tempered, never hilarious 
and never much depressed ; always hopeful and 
cheerful. His temperament was no doubt saddenetl 
by the severe domestic afflictions througii whicli he 
passed. His memory is cherished in affectionate 
regard by all who knew him, for he left behind 
him the example of a true Christian physician and 
upright man. 



DEER, BEARS, AND WOLVES were abun- 
dant in the forests of Nutfield. A large 
moose killed in 1720 in the West Parish gave 
name to a hill there five hundred feet high, (ranie 
wardens were elected by the town for more than 
sixty years, " to prevent the killing of deer out of 
season." Until after the Revolution, farmers 
brought their sheep every night to the fold to 
guard against the tlepredations of wolves, and i)oun- 
ties were paid on wolves' heads. Tradition says 
that the last bear seen was in 1807, when theie 
was a great bear hunt, engaged in by fifty men lor 
three days, until the animal was finally killed. He 
is said to have weighed two hundred pounds 
dressed, and the cajiture was duly celebrated. 



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149 



THE MACK FAMILY of the original Scotch- 
Irish stock was founded in this country by 
John Mack, who, after his marriage with Isabel, 
daughter of Sir John Brown, came from London- 
derry, Ireland, in 1732 and settled in Nutfield. 
His son Andrew, born in 1748, purchased in 1772 
the farm which still remains the family home- 
stead, a part of which was deeded to him by 
Matthew Thornton. He enjoyed the highest 
confidence of his townsmen, as is shown by the 
record of his continual service in town office. He 
died in 1820. Of his son, Robert Mack, a sketch 
is given on page 329. It may be added that he 
was a justice of the peace for forty-seven years; he 
also acted as agent for the town in the conduct of 
numerous lawsuits, one of which was with Derry 
in relation to the building of the Mammoth road, 
of which he was one of the projectors, and he was 
likewise a director of the Manchester & Lawrence 
railroad at its inception. He was noted for his 
legal knowledge, social qualities, and ready wit. 

Robert Clark Mack, his eldest son, was born 
Dec. 31, 1818. He obtained an academic educa- 
tion and taught school for a few years. March 6, 
1856, he married Jane D. Patterson and settled on 
the homestead, to a life much devoted to historical 
and genealogical research, making daily weather 
observations many years for the Smithsonian 
Institution. In the Civil War he made the draft 
enrollment of Londonderry, Derry, Windham, and 
Salem. In 1870 he was appointed consul to Lon- 
donderry, Ireland, by President Grant, but was 
unable to accept. He published a volume on the 
celebration of the 150th anniversary of the settle- 
ment of Londonderry, and he contributed the 
historical sketches of Derry and Londonderry in 
Hurd's History of Rockingham County. He died 
Jan. II, 1894, leaving ready for the press an 
exhaustive history of the Patterson and Wallace 
families. 

Andrew Wallace Mack, youngest son of 
Robert Mack, was born Sept. 13, 1820, and died 
Feb. 7, 1877. Having attended Greenland and 
Pembroke academies, the routine life of the 
scholarly inclined New England boy and man 
became his vocation, teaching in winter and farm- 
ing in summer. In i860 he built a house <jn the 
ancestral acres, and devoted himself to farming 



and to the fulfillment of his public duties. He 
was town clerk six years, superintending school 
committeeman five years, selectman four years, 
and from time to time representative in the legis- 
lature. He was conspicuous for personal integrity 
and literary tastes. March 20, 1861, he married 
Frances A. Preston of Danvers, Mass., and three 
children were born to them : Wallace Preston, 
Anne Belle, and John P., the last named dying in 
infancy. 

Wallace Preston Mack was born Nov. 7, 1863. 
At the close of his school life he entered upon 
farming as a business, devoting much of his time 
and land to small-fruit culture. He has also 
established and carries on the largest factory in the 
state for the manufacture of evaporated apples, 
the capacity being four hundred bushels per day. 
Feb. 24, 1892, he was united in marriage to Har- 
riet Lavinia Pillsbury, daughter of Hon. W. S. 
Pillsbury. They have three children: Lillian 
Wallace, Lavinia Pillsbury, Robert Andrew. 




GEORGE O. COLBY, DERRV. 



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WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



151 



ALDK 

r\ ill 

May I 7, 



N B. SMITII was horn Sept. 20, 1H37, 

Mason, N. H. He removed to Deny 

1872, purchasing with B. C. Smith of 




state ticket, and holding the position of deputy 
sheriff for the county from August, 1874, until 
July, 1876. After the fire which destroyed his 
hotel, he retired from active business life, but still 
continued to assist in all movements looking 
toward the prosperity of the community. Mr. 
Smith was a member of Trinity Commandery of 
Manchester and of Echo Lodge No. 4, I. O. O. F., 
of Derry Depot. 



THE WAR OF 181 2 was not pojnilar in Lon- 
donderry, and there were but few voluntary 
enlistments from the town. At the request of 
President Madison, Governor Plumer of New 
Hampshire ordered into the service of the United 
States a company of the state militia for the de- 
fence of Portsmouth, and Captain John Leonard 
was placed in command. In this company were 
Moses C. Pillsbury, John Palmer, Moses Messer, 
John Plumer, David Wilson, John Saunders, and 
James Whittemore. The men were drafted to 
serve six months. In 18 14 Captain James Thom 
of Londonderry commanded a company for a time, 
and there were twenty-two men from the town in 
the service. Their names are on record, but the 
town also furnished others concerning whom the 
muster rolls are silent. 



ALDEN B. SMITH. 



Boston the hotel then known as the Railroad 
House. This copartnership existed but a short 
time, when Mr. A. B. Smith bought his partner's 
interest and conducted the house alone until it was 
destroyed by fire Aug. 19, 1882. He immediately 
rebuilt, naming the new hostelry " Hotel Brad- 
ford." Mr. Smith accumulated considerable prop- 
erty, and besides the hotel he owned "Smith's 
Block," containing the public hall, the postoffice, 
and several stores, and also the fine residence in 
which he died Dec. 14, 1886. He was very active 
in all efforts to promote the welfare of the 
village and town, contributing both of his 
time and his means. Mr. Smith was a staunch 
Democrat, having been the candidate of his party 
for several offices of influence and trust on the 




(IRAVIi OF GEN. JOHN STARK, MANCIIKSIER. 



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REV. W. J. O'CONNOR, the son of Timothy r^EORGE S. ROLLINS was born in Dcer- 
and Catherine (Lane) O'Connor, was born ^-^ field, N. H., Aug. lo, 1835. He married 
in Manchester, Feb. 26, 1862. Graduating; from Miss Rosina Hayward of Topsham, Vt., Jan. i, 

1857, and the following year he moved to Lowell, 
Mass., where he engaged in the house painting 
business with his brother-in-law, George N. Os- 
good. Soon after the war began Mr. Rollins went 
into the boot and shoe business, becoming sales- 
man in Elbridge Dearborn's store, in Lowell. In 
1864 he accepted a position as manager of a boot 
and shoe store in Manchester, N. tL, and after 
remaining there a year and a half he returned to 
Lowell and became travelling salesman for Hap- 
good Wright, with whom he staved for about 
^10^ twelve years. In 1879 he removed to Derry, 

where he now resides, and engaged in the mercan- 
tile business. He is also the local agent of the 
American Express Companv. He was out of 




REV. VV. J. O CONNOR. 



the famous Park-Street Parochial Grammar School, 
where Thomas Corcoran, the first Catholic school- 
master of Manchester, taught for over thirty years, 
he studied next successively at Montreal College, 
Canada, Holy Cross College, Worcester, and 
Notre Dame University, Indiana, receiving the 
degree of A. B. from the last named institution in 
1883. He then entered the theological depart- 
ment of Laval University, Quebec, and was or- 
dained to the priesthood June 13, 1886, at St. 
Joseph's Cathedral, Manchester, Rt. Rev. Bishop 
Bradley ofificiating. He was immediately appointed 
assistant pastor of the Church of the Immaculate 

Conception at Nashua, where he remained until business from 1887 till 1890, during which 
Aug. 15, 1888, when he was appointed the first his only son, George F. Rollins, who died Apr 
resident pastor of St. Thomas church, Derry. 1890, was the proprietor. Since that time 




GEORGE S. ROLLINS. 



time 

il 18, 

Mr. 



WiLLErs 1300I<: OP NUTFIELD. 



iSJ 



Rollins has conducted the business. His affairs 
have prospered, and since comini;- to Derry he has 
built four houses. 



MONEY was far from beinij plenty in the first 
half century of the colony's existence, and 
the early settlers \yere put to great inconvenience 
for lack of a circulating medium with which to 
transact even the most necessary business. Farm 
produce, the skins of wild animals, and occasion- 
ally even spinning wheels took the place of money. 
During the various Indian wars, when it was im- 
possible to carry on business by means of barter, 
the government issued bills of credit, which served 
as legal tender. All such bills authorized before 
the year 1 742 were called " old tenor," and the 
issue of that year and until the Revolution were 
known as "new tenor." In 1767 the salary of 
Rev. Mr. Davidson of the East Parish was fifteen 



hundred pounds old tenor, and the next year it 
was only seventy-five pounds in coin. There was 
a natural temptation to over-issues of paper money 
beyond the ability of the government to redeem, 
and the result was a depreciation of the currency, 
causing great embarrassment to large numbers of 
the people. In January, 1777, Continental bills 
were at par ; in June, 1781, one hundred dollars in 
gold was worth twelve thousand dollars in Con- 
tinental money. At the Londonderry town meeting, 
held July 20, 1779, it was voted "that we will sell 
none of the necessaries of life, linen cloth, or other 
manufactures, higher than they were sold the first 
day of May last ; and that we will continue to 
reduce our prices monthly, not doubting that 
other towns in the country will adopt the like 
salutary measures ; that we consider as enemies to 
our country all persons who shall buy gold or 
silver, or shall demand hard money, in whole or in 
part, for any article they may have for sale, and 




GEORGE S. ROLLINS S RESIDENCE. 



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that we will do- evervthina; in our power to pre- 
vent such pernicious practices, as they have an 
immediate tendency to ruin our paper currency." 
In I 786, when the popular demand for paper money 
developed into open rebellion against the authority 
of the State, Londonderry voted for the issuing of 
such currency. The whole monetary system 
remained for years in the greatest confusion, put- 
ting the people to much annoyance. The follow- 
ing order is from the town records of Jan. 1 5, i 790 : 

To Mr. Jesse Jones, Constable : — Please pay or discount 
with James Rogers ten shillings in certificats, and five shillings 
of Indents, & three shillings and four pence out of your town 
list, & one shilling & eight pence in specie, & one shilling eight 
pence in specie orders, and one shilling eight pence out of your 
county list, it being for his father's pole tax, rated and dead in 
the same year, & it will be allowed on settlement of your lists. 

George Reid, Select Clerk. 



[OSHUA GOODWIN was born July 30, 1779, 
^ at Rowley, Mass. When he was eight years 
of age his father moved to Londonderrv. His 
first wife was Rebecca Jones of that town, whom 
he married Dec. 11, 1800. By her he had two 

sons, Joshua and 
David. She died 
May 2 7, 1806. Mr. 
Goodwin then 
married her sister, 
Elizabeth Jones, 
and by her had 
three children : Jo- 
siah, Daniel, and 
Rebecca. The sec- 
ond wife died, and 
a few years later 
Mr. Goodwin mar- 
ried again. He 
survived his third 
wife, whose death 
was hastened by 
accident. She was 
aged and feeble and, falbng into the fireplace, was 
severely burned. Mr. Goodwin was a shoemaker 
by trade, and for many years was a deacon in the 
Presbyterian church. He always went barefoot 




JOSHUA GOODWIN. 



in summer and, whether or not this practice was 
conducive to longevity, he lived to be nearly 
ninety-four years of age, his death occurring June 

25. 1873- 



DAVID GOODWIN, son of Joshua and Re- 
becca (Jones) Goodwin, was born in Lon- 
donderry, Aug. 22, 
1803. He married, 
Sept. I, 1829, Mar\- 
Hibbard of Lon- 
don d e r r y , and 
they lived together 
more than fift\ 
years. H e died 
Jan. 21, 1881, and 
her death occurred 
Dec. 7 in the same 
year. Their chil- 
dren were : Eliza 
J., Sarah H., Har- 
riet, Ann Maria, 
David T., Mary, 
and Charles. Mr. 
G o o d w i n w a s 
highly esteemed by the communitv in which he 
lived for so many years. 




DAVID GOODWIN. 



GUNPOWDER was stored in the attics of the 
meeting-houses at one time in the early days 
of the colony. No one seems to have thought 
particularly of the consequences in case the build- 
ing had been struck by lightning during church 
services. In 1 745 the town " voted to buy two 
barrels of gunpowder and lodge one half in the old 
meeting-house and the other half in the new." 
The towns of the province were required by law 
to keep on hand one barrel of good powder, two 
hundredweight of bullets and three hundred Hints 
for every sixty listed soldiers, for use in case of an 
Indian attack. In the old town records are entries 
like the following : '• To Daniel McAfee for mak- 
ing bulits, £0 2S. od. To James Alexander for lead 
for bulits, ;^o 4s. od." 



WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



'55 



T-HE FOUNDERS OF LONDONDERRY, 
A remarkable themselves for thrift and energy, 
were not slow in transplanting their young and 
vigorous saplings to the fertile and promising soil 
of adjoining counties and states, as subsequent 
years have shown stalwart trees and powerful 
influences for good, matured from developed 
saplings of the Scotch-Irish stock thus sent out. 
Perhaps no more valuable illustration of the 
vitality and true worth of such transplanted stock 
has been found than in a sketch of the life of Rev. 
Charles E. Brown, a lineal descendant of the early 
Dickey importation from the north of Ireland. 
His mother was Betsey Dickey, whose father, 
Joseph Dickey, settled early in Weathersfield, Yt. 
Betsey married a Baptist minister. Rev. Philip 
Perry Brown, and Charles E. was a son born Feb. 
23, 18 1 3. Probably from an inherited disposition 
and an anxious desire to do good, he early entered 
the ministry, and after spending a few years in 
New York state, in his chosen profession, he asked 
to be sent by the Baptist Missionary Society to 
the territory of Iowa. This was in 1841, and he 
thus enjoys the distinction of being the pioneer 
Baptist minister in the now great state of Iowa, 
and with the help of his noble young wife, Frances 
Lyon, he was largely instrumental in laying broad 
and deep in Iowa and the new country west of the 
Mississippi river the foundation of one of the 
great branches of the Christian Church. And now, 
in the sunset of life, at eighty-three years of age, 
he is waiting, with a cheerful heart and sunny 
smile, for the boatman to ferry him over the river. 
He is living with his son, Mr. W. C. Brown of 
St. Joseph, Mo., who is one of the most prominent 
and capable railroad managers in the West, and 
who, with his excellent companion, spares no pains 
to make bright and pleasant' the pathway of his 
honored sire adown the hill of life. 



piRST M. E. CHURCH, DERRY.— A 
A Methodist Episcopal church was organized 
in Derry Aug. 6, 1834. Oct. 25, 1834, notice was 
published of the formal organization of a societv. It 
was signed by Caleb Dustin, John Taylor, Oilman 
Dinsmore, and William S. Follansbee ; Mr. Dins- 
more, clerk. The society held services at first for 



a short time at the houses of its members, but 
soon occupied the " Birch Schoolhouse " at the 
lower end of the village. The church prospered, 
and more and better accommodations being 
needed, in 1836 a meeting-house was erected. 
The land on which the meeting-house of the 
society stands was the gift of Capt. William 
Choate. The house was built in 1836, at a cost of 
about $3,500. Mr. Beede was the contractor and 
builder. Services have constantly been held on 
the Sabbath in this church since its erection. 
Following is the roll of clergymen of this church 
and society: Philo Bronson, 1834-35; Mr. James 
McCane, 1835-36; Samuel Hoyt, 1836-37; Wil- 
liam H. Brewster, 1837-38; Michael Quimby, 
1838-40; Jonathan Hazelton, i840-4r; S. S. 
Matthews, 1841-43; James Adams, 1843-44; 




INTERIOR FIRST M. E CHURCH, DERRY. 

from 1844 to 1848, no record; Mr. G. W. T. 
Rogers, 1848-49; F.O. Barrows, 1849-50 ; James 
Palmer, 1850-51; Isaac S. Cushman, 1851-52; 
Charles Smith, 1852-53; from 1853 to 1857, sup- 
plied by students ; Mr. Hamlin and Mr. 

Parkhurst, 1857-58; John W. Adams, 1858-60; 
Lorenzo Draper, 1860-62 ; Rufus Tilton, 1862-64'; 
E. Lewis, 1864-65; N. G. Cheney and W. P.' 
Ray, 1865-66; W. P. Ray, 1866-67; W. W. H. 
Pillsbury, 1867-68; James Noyes, 1868-69; 
Elihu Scott, 1869-70; W. B. Osgood, 1870-71 ; 
J. W. Dearborn, 1871 -75; A. E. Higgins, 1872-^ 
73; A. E. Carter, 1873-77; S. C. Farnhain, 
1877-78; N. Alger, 1878-79; W. W. Smith, 
I S 79 -Si; O. a. Farley, 1881-82; Frederick C. 
Pillsbury, 1882-83; M- Howard, 1883-84; W. 
Ramsden, 1885-87; From 1888 to 1896 the 
church has been supplied by students. 



St. LUKE'S M. E. CHURCH, DERRY DEPOT. 



THE history of this church dates from May, The entire cost of l)uilding and Urnd was $4,000. 

1885, when Rev. William Ramsden of the The church edifice was remodeled in 1894 at a 

First M. E. church, Derry, began holding services cost of $2,000. Rev. Mr. Ramsden, the first 

Sunday afternoons in Odd Fellows' hall. These pastor, was succeeded in 1889 by Rev. C. W. 

were well attended, there being a number of Taylor, who remained until 1892, and was followed 

Methodist families in the vicinity, at whose homes by Rev. Daniel Onstott (1892-94), Rev. W. A. 

week-night meetings were held. At the public Mayo (1894-95), ''"'"^' 'he present pastor. Rev. 

service held Feb. 12, 1S87, the letters of twenty- H. E.Allen. Since its organization, 120 persons 

have been connect- 



four persons were 
read, and three were 
baptized and re- 
ceived on proba- 
tion, and thus, with 
the advice and con- 
sent of the presid- 
ing elder, Rev. C. 
U. Dunning, the 
new society was 
formally organized 
and named St. 
Luke's. On the fol- 
lowing Tuesday 
evening, Feb. 14, 
the members met 
at the home of Mrs. 
Gilchrist, on Mam 
street, and elected 
a board of stewards 
and trustees. Feb. 
24 the ofificers met 
at the home of John 
Quimby and form- 
ally organized as a 
quarterly confer- 
ence. Having car- 
ried on the work 

in connection with the parent society for three guage, and the hist classical school in central or 
years, Rev. Mr. Ramsden was appointed hv the western New York, were established by a colony 
bishop as pastor of St. Luke's in April, 1888. The of Scotch-Irish settlers from Nutfield in 174: at 
young society had grown so strong that steps were Cherry Valley, N. V. John Lindesay was the 
taken for the erection of a church edifice and par- founder of the settlement, and among the thirty 
sonage, and lots were purchased from Mrs. Boyd odd persons from Nutfield who formed the 
on very favorable terms. Ground was broken for colony were David Ramsay, William Gault, James 
the church building in June, 1888, and the house Campbell, and William Dickson, accompanied by 
of worship, a handsome structure, was formally Rev. Samuel Dunlop, a native of Ireland and a 
dedicated with appropriate services April 17, 1889. graduate of Trinity College. 

156 




ed with the church, 
and the present 
membership is 103, 
28 of whom have 
united during the 
present pastorate. 
The Sunday school 
numbers 175, and 
there is a flourish- 
ing branch of the 
Ep worth League, 
with a membership 
of 60. Since 1888, 
this society has paid 
out over $13,000, 
an average of $1,625 
per year. This is a 
remarkable show- 
ing for a small 
society. 



ST. LUKE S M. E. CHURCH, DERRY DEPOT. 



T~^IIE first church 
i west of the 
Hudson in wiiich 
there was preaching 
in the English Ian- 



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ORIGINAL CHURCH EDIFICE. 




REV. WILLI.V.M RAMSDEN. 





REV. \V. A. MAVO. 



REV. H E. ALLEN. 



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THE OLD MEETING HOUSE. — In the square pews, four on the floor and four in the 

order of building, this was the fourth in Lon- gallery, larger than any of the others. These also 

donderry, and although it was removed from the contained seats on three sides and would accom- 

old site near the present residence of Frank A. modate the largest families. The minister's pew 

Hardy and converted into the present town hall was on the west side, next to the pulpit. In the 

fifty years ago, it is still remembered with venera- gallery, which extended on three sides of the 

tion by a score of elderly persons who worshipped house, the wall pews were nearly over those of the 

there with their parents and grandparents. Its lower floor, aud in the same order from the east 

exterior appearance was that of a two-story farm- and west entrance. Two long choir seats faced 

house. The main door was on the south side, and on the pulpit, and there was space for stringed instru- 

each end was a porch with two doors. The south ments on the west side of the singers. Although 



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the seating capacity was 
so great, this old house 
of worship was usually 
tilled to the doors, old 
men and women walk- 
ing eight or ten miles 
to meeting, and mothers 
often bringing children 
in their arms for long 
distances. No such 
crowds throng the Pro- 
testant churches in the 
country districts today. 



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door opened into the 
broad aisle that led to 
the pulpit on the north 
side. In front of the 
pulpit was a single seat 
for the elder, who was 
next in dignity to the 
pastor, the seat being 
raised upon a platform 
two steps above the 
flo7)n~"ln front of the 
elder's seat were two 
seats for the deacons, 
raised one step above 
the floor. On the ground 
floor the pews were 
classed as diamond, cor- 
ner, or square, and wall 
pews. The diamond 
pews occupied the mid- 
dle of the house and 
were arranged in four 
rows, two upon each 
side of the broad aisle. 
They were oblong in 

shape, each having room for three seats and one ence that there be a revision of the table of fees. 
or two chairs. The seat on the side toward the It appears to us that the attornies' fees should be 
pulpit could be turned up when not in use. These cut down at least one-half ; they would not then 
were familv pews capable of seating four persons be so fond of business, and people would find time 
on each of the longer seats, and two on the seat to breathe." 

opposite the pew door, which with two chairs 

would make accommodations for a dozen. The T^HE grave and reverend Matthew Clark ate no 
backs, sides, and doors of the pews were artistically A meat, but was very fond of eggs. When 
panelled and decorated by the insertion of lathe dining out, if his hostess apologized for her hard- 
work in the open spaces, and being unpainted they boiled eggs, he would say : " I'll soften them with 
acquired a beautiful wood tint with age. In the butter." If the apology was for soft-boiled eggs, his 
four corners of the meeting-house were eight reply would be : " I'll harden them with butter.'' 



AWYERS were evi- 
dently making too 
much money in Nutfield 
as long ago as 1778, for 
the following article is 
to be found in the town 
warrant for that year : 
" To see if the town will 
instruct their representa- 
tives to use their influ- 



THE EAYERS RANGE, 



BY REV. JESSE G. McMURPHY. 



THE prominence of the rano^e feature in the two ranges were called the Double Range on the 

original settlement of the nut country was west side of Beaver river, thus distinguished from 

largely due to the clannish character of the people, the Double Range on the east side of Beaver 

Families connected by marriages and common river. 

sentiments and opinions found it convenient and The headlines of these farms extended north 
agreeable to dwell together along some fertile of northwest and south of southeast, and the 
slope or stream, and to facilitate communication longest or side lines extended east of northeast 
adopted the plan of parallel homesteads, long and and west of southwest. The ranges are never 
narrow, with a highway only across the common described as touching each other and in many 
residence ends, while the opposite ends remained places unappropriated land was left to raise inter- 
uncultivated and covered with forests and swamps minable disputes and claims of ownership. This is 
still occupied by bears and wolves. notable on the westerly side of the Eayers Range, 
The Double Range, the English Range, and where there was much swamp, and the next range 
the Aikens Range were not more prominent than began bevond the swamp. The change of direc- 
the Eayers Range in respect to the dates of their tion in the westerly headline is the source of end- 
settlement or the character of the people who less complications in surveying lots, as also the 
formed and named them. An examination of the merging of the Aikens Range and Eayers Range 
old Proprietors' Book will convince the reader on the north, their side lines having different 
that families occupied these lands before any name directions. 

had been given, or any steps taken to build a town- As this range eventually l)ecame known as 

ship here, and even the name of Nutfield cannot the Eayers Range by reason of the prominence of 

be claimed as the earliest applied title to any por- William Eayers and his family here and in other 

tion of the territory. Dunstable is an older name parts of this township, a copy of the rect)r(l of the 

that was applied to manv thousand acres including laying out of his homestead is herewith given : 

all that was afterward known as Nutfield, and only 

r • 1 1 1 ii u I 1 <- <-i , Nutfield October ii"' 1720. Laid out to William Kayers a 

relinquished when the boundarv between the . , ., . . ■' . 

• lot of land in the west range m the said town containing sixty 

provmces of New Hampshire and Massachusetts ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ .^ ^^^,^^j^j ^^ followeth: beginning at a pine 

was finally established. The transcript of the t^ee at the northeast corner and a heap of stones, from thence 

laying out of these homesteads shows the process running a due west-south-west line tiiree hundred and twenty 

of naming the ranges was less rapid than the rods and bounding all the way upon John Givean's lot. from 

settlement. Nearly all of the Eayers Range '^ence running eouth-south-east thirty rods and so running two 

, , / .^ , , . . , ixt'" imrallel lines to these lines first mentioned bounding u])on 

homestead^ were described as lying in the West ,j.,^^^_^^^^ g^^j^ ^,^^, ^^^^,^^^ ^^i^^,^ j^^,^.^,,^^ ^^-^^ ^^ i,^^^^^^^ i„ 

Range.'^in^ reference to the fact that the Aikens the common or undivided lands within the said township equal 

Range joined it on the east, and for a time these to other lots in said town. David Cargill, James McKeen, 

159 




MAP OK THE EAVERS RANGE. 



]]'/LLE2''S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



i6i 



James Gregg, Robert Wear, John Morrison. John (ioffe, Com- 
mittee. Recorded this ii"' of Octobor 1720. 

Pr. John Goffe, 

Tenon Cletk. 

The identificatiun of this man's liumcstead 
and residence may be of interest to the reader and 
especiallv to a numerous line of descendants who 
have given their names to many important enter- 
prises since the settlement of the Eayers Ranoe. 
Therefore some further comments are made upon 
the exact location of William Eayers and the 
house in which he lived. In passing to the means 
of identification it is also to be noted that the 
orthography of the surname is original and has 
since been changed into Ayers. The roads leading 
by the dwellings of this range were private for 
several years under the constructive era while the 
township was still known as Nutfield ; but soon 
after the charter was granted and the name of 
Londonderry therein established, corporate action 
laid out the highways. The following will serve 
as an example and be recognized as a present 
thoroughfare : 

Londonderry November 6''' 1723. Laid out by the select- 
men a straight road beginning at the northwest side of David 
Morrison's homestead lot and running southeast across the 
brook on the south side of said Morrison's field between two 
great rocks and by marked trees across Samuel Morrison's lot 
and Abram Holmes' lot and on the west of John ^\'oodburn's 
field, across the said Woodburn's lot, and then turning a little 
more easterly over a Httle run and so to the highway that comes 
from Edward Aikens, and then turning over the bridge and 
taking the line between William Eayers and James Craig's lots 
to the cross road that turns by Mr. Eayer's house and David 
Boyle's and to the east of John McClurg's cellar and through 
the second divisions, the said straight road to be four rods wide 
where it crosses their lots and where it runs along lots two rods 
wide. Samuel Moore, John Blair, Benjamin ^^'ilson, Robert 
Boyes, Selectmen. Recorded this 13"' day of December 1723. 

Pr. John MacMurphy, 

Tinon Clerk. 

This direct road here recorded began on the 
north side of the farm lately occupied by James 
McMurphy and passed by his house and over the 
Aiken brook, and now over the railroad bridge and 
across the farm of Alexander McMurphy and 
over the spring brook between the lots of Daniel 
Owens and John Duffy into the road that comes 
from John Folsom's house, and then turning west- 



ward passes again over the Aiken brook on the 
line between John Duffy and the Corthells to a 
cross road that once passed along near the Aiken 
brook through the Morrisons', Holmes' and Wood- 
burn's lots, to accommodate several families that 
lived by the brook, their old cellar walls and cool, 
clear well springs being still visible. At William 
Eayers's house the road leads southerly, that is, 
by Mrs. Corthell's present home, and then by 
George Ripley's house, the old Boyles lot, and 
continuing by the late homes of Peter Home and 
Robert Jeffers. 

Abram Holmes very early sold his original 
homestead and settled on other lands where the 
family continued to occupy without interruption 
until the present generation. John Woodburn 
also complained of his land and was granted the 
privilege of taking a homestead in some other sec- 
tion of the township, and after several trials located 
in the western ])art of the town near Dunstable 
line with others, forming a new range. 

A reference to the brief genealogical history 
of the early settlers contained in the work of Rev. 
Edward L. Parker will show these families along 
the Aiken brook to have been closely related bv 
marriages. The Woodburn lot was never fenced 
off, but came to be common with the Craig lot on 
the south, and the two lots are united longitudi- 
nally to be divided transversely into three or more 
portions owned by Daniel Owens, Joim Duffy, 
James Madden, and Alexander McMurphy. James 
Smith was not one of the scheduled proprietors of 
the town of Londonderrv, but records of births in 
his family are given and they are previous to the 
time of alleged settlement, before the date of the 
royal charter or even the deed of Col. John 
W^heelwright. The James Smith lot came into 
the possession of the Pinkerton family; there the 
worthy founder of Pinkerton Academy and liberal 
benefactor of the two religious societies of his gen- 
eration lived and died. Thirty-one thousand 
dolhuT in those days meant persistent industry and 
habitual economy, and those endowments signified 
mature convictions and determination to sacrifice 
himself and consecrate the fruits of his labors to 
the highest good of his countrymen. 

Robert McKeen's lot of forty acres was laid 
out bounding upon land of James Smith, and men- 



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iriLLErs BOOK OP NUTFIELD. 



tion is also made in the record of a highway lead- 
ing from the Aikens Range to Canada and passing 
through his land. The Robert McKecn lot was 
not sfranted for a homestead, but a second division 
was made, the same in amount that was laid out to 
every proprietor of one full homestead of sixty 
acres. The stream of water that runs southward 
through Robert McKeen's second division had 



together with a piece of meadow in Pole meadow bounded by 
stakes between the lots of John Woodburn and William Aiken : 
also a pond lying by the six acre meadow. David Cargill, John 
Bell, Allen Anderson, John Mitcliell, Committee. Recorded 
this 28"' of February 1723-24. 

Pr. John MacMurphy, 

Town Clerk. 

This transcript fully illustrates the custom of 
been reserved for the use of a sawmill. The granting meadows independently of homestead 
privilege of the stream extended upwards upon the bounds or any right given by the ])lan of allot- 
banks as far as a 
spruce s w amp. 
In this descrip- 
tion the reader 



may readily lo- 
cate the Aiken 
sawmill at a point 
recently occupied 
by Washington 
Perkins and des- 
ignated as the 
Whittier sawmill, 
and earlier still as 
the Wilson saw- 
mill. The forty 
acres laid out to 
the Rev. James 
McGregor as a 
second division 
were granted in 
part for a want 
of wood upon the 
lot assigned to 
him as a home- 
stead. This is 
and alwavs has 




POr.ATO FIELD, DERRY. 



ment. The mea- 
dow at Bear hill 
is still cut annual- 
ly and why the 
space remains 
free from other 
growths and re- 
s i s t s the en- 
croach m e n t of 
bushes and trees 
is not easily ex- 
plained. When 
David Morrison 
cut these mea- 
dows the whole 
c o u n t r \' was 
denselv covered 
with forests and 
even the high- 
ways that led 
from one part of 
the town to the 
other parts were 
through the wil- 
derness, where it 
was necessary to 
mark the course 
And as in those 



been a wooded 

tract of land, but in the years when the Pages and by blazing trees by the roadside 

the Spinneys lived there much of the land was in days the meeting with bears was a common occur- 

a good state of cultivation and there were flourish- rence, many traditions of such meetings arc found 

ing orchards and gardens. in the memories of old people. The Morrisons 

In order to show the manner of describing remained in possession of their lands in the Eayers 

meadows granted to the early settlers, the tran- Range for several generations, but finally sold the 



script of one is here presented : 

Londonderry July 23'' 1723. Laid out to David Morrison 
one acre and si.xty rods of meadow, be it more or less, which 
lieth at Bear hill and is bounded on Samuel Morrison's lot by 
stakes and running down the creek to the meadow bounds ; 



homesteads, and either removed to other towns or 
occupied their second divisions and amendment 
lands. For a more particular history of these move- 
ments the reader is referred to the History of the 
Morrison Family, published by Leonard Morrison. 



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163 



John McClurg's cellar wall is said to have They appear to liave selected lots with reference 

been recently visible near the house of Warren to possibilities of constructing dams or raisino- 

P. Home, a little to the northwest by the upper mill iMivileges on secondary streams where all the 

road. In other parts of the town John McClurg's really available streams had already been taken, 

name will be found associated with the possession The lands were not suitable for agricultural pur- 

of large tracts of land. James Alexander's home- poses by reason of the swamps and stones, and the 

stead was in the Double Range east of Beaver streams had not sufficient water to supply a pond, 

river and had a second division allowed to his right All of that swamp at the westerly end of the 

on the southerly side of the Eayers Range. It Eayers Range was watered by the Boyles brook 



shortly became a 
h o m e s t e a d, as 
n e ar 1 y all the 
second divisions 
were needed to 
satisfy the de- 
mands for more 
land. Sons of 
pioneers reaching 
the ages of twen- 
ty-one required 
homesteads. 

In reference to 
the Wilson lot, 
originally laid out 
to James Wilson, 
there is a mar- 
ginal reading in 
the Town Rec- 
o r d s s h o w i n g 
that James Wil- 
son died and one 
half of the lot 
was sold to John 
M c C 1 u r g a n d 
that became his 
proper half share 









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WHEELERS BARN, DKRRY. 



that crosses the 
road west of 
George Crispen's 
house and crosses 
a n o t h e r road 
west of the Elas 
h o u s e, at that 
point beyond and 
out of the range. 
However, the 
Boyles brook car- 
ried a wheel to 
operate a fulling 
mill right above 
the road at the 
Elas. About a 
mile west of this 
Bo\'les brook is 
another section of 
countrv marked 
with similar can- 
ditions, and a 
Bo vies brook 
runs through it 
just west of the 
Shipley or Lon- 
donderrv ijravc. 



yard, and, meantlering through Boyles mea- 
dows and numert)us other claims, crosses the 
road west of Charles McAllester's place and so 
on to join the waters of the more favored Beaver 



according to the schedule. One half of the re- 
mainder was granted to Elizabeth Wilson, the 
widow of James, and the otiu'r fourth to her 
daughter, Mary Wilson. At this time the Aiken 
brook, as it passed through the Wilson and Mc- river. 

Clurg lands, was merely a small stream that over- Samuel Aiken now owns the second division 

flowed some meadows above in the sjiring of each laid out to David Morrison, or that portion of it 
year. The Iniilding of a dam and mills upon this upon which the buildings were placed. It must 
stream at this place occurred man\' \ears after the be l)orne in mind that forty acres were granted 
settlement of the Eayers Range. exclusive of the meadows, and consequently many 

David and Thomas Boyle left their surname more are now included in the boundary since 
upon many swamps, meadows, brooks, and places, the meadows have been purchased. Daniel Owens 
u 



164 



WILLEY'S BOOK OF NUTFIELn. 



A' 



LFRED BOYD, the only son of William and 
Margaret (Holmes) Boyd, was born in An- 
trim, Feb. 12, 18 1 7. His parents moved to Derry 
in 1 82 1, when his father bought what was then 




purchased the western half of this lot from the But • Sue Loves Me and I Loves Sue ' is nather 
heirs of the late Abram McKenney. The Rankine gud nor bad." 

meadow was originally granted for about four 

acres and bounded on this lot. Sydney Burbank 
occupies the easterly ends of two lots originally 
laid out to William Layers and Thomas Boyle. 
It is not fifty years since the last Robert Craig and 
sisters lived on the lot granted for a homestead to 
John Givean and passed over to James Craig 
within three years, or before 1723. 

The Craig farm of one hundred and twenty 
acres, for it embraced the Woodburn lot, was 
rather distinguished from others by the many 
peculiar traits of the family and consequently the 
singular products raised upon the land. It is 
within the memory of some aged people to 
describe the habits of the old maids and unmarried 
brother, and the peculiar speech of these last scions 
of a venerable stock. The old maple trees of a 
large orchard that produced many thousand pounds 
of sugar were but recently cut down, and even 
now there are some remnants of hardv appearance. 
How manv trips the old maids executed in the 
thawing spring months along those pasture paths 
among the maples to fetch home the buckets of 
sap ! The slope of that old orchard was favorable 
to the observations of those who lived to the north 
and eastward. The tending of sheep was another 
occupation of the maiden sisters, and it is reported 
that they were quite as timid as their flock, and 
were seldom seen at close range, but at the ap- 
proach of a man thev vanished behind the rocks 
and trees and shylv came forth after the stranger 
nad disappeared. 




T^HREE KINDS OF SONGS.— Rev. James 
•* McGregor had a fine sense of propriety, 
whether he had an ear for music or not. In con- 
versation one day with one of his parishioners on 
the subject of songs he remarked : " There is just 
three kinds of songs. There is the very gud song, 
the verv bad sons:, ^^nd the sona: that is nather bad 
nor gud. ' While Shepherds W^atch Their Flocks 
by Night ' is a very gud song. • Janie Stoops 
Down to Buckle Her Shoe ' is a very bad song. 



ALFRED BOYD. 



the Chenev farm, comprising most of the land 
where the Depot village now stands. Jan. 28, 
1858, the son Alfred married Emma C. Corwin, 
daughter of John and Clarissa (Thompson) Corwin 
of Tunbridge, \'t. Thev had five children : John 
A., Fannie E., Sarah C, Clara M., and Everett W. 
Boyd. Mr. Boyd remained on the old farm until 
his death, which occurred Oct. 9, 1874, 



GEN. GEORGE REID, 



GEN. GEORGE REID, who after Gen. Stark tions, to avenge the massacres of Wyoming and 
is the most distinguished mihtary son of Cherry Valley. During the summer of 1782 he was 
Nutfield, was born in Londonderry in 1733. His in command at Albany. In 1786 Gen. Reid was 
father was James Reid, who was one of the early appointed by Gen. Sullivan, then president of the 
settlers and selectmen of the town in that year, state, to command the military forces called out 
Of George Reid's carlv life i)ut little is known, to suppress the rebellion which arose from the 
except that in 1757 he married Mary Woodburn, popular clamor for the issuance of paper money 
daughter of John 
Woodburn by his first 
wife, Mary Boyd, antl 
that he settled in Lon- 
donderry. When the 
news of the battle of 
Lexington came, Reid 
was in command of a 
company of minute 
men. He immediately 
placed himself at the 
head of his companv 
and marched to join 
the left wing of the 
American forces, un- 
der Gen. Stark, near 
Boston, and took part 
in the battle of Bun- 
ker Hill. His services 
in that engagement 
were recognized by 
the Continental Con- 
gress, and on Jan. i, 
1776, he was commis- 
sioned to be captain 
of a company in the 
Fifth Repfiment of 



which should be re- 
ceivable as legal ten- 
der in payment of 
taxes and debts. Gen. 
Reid was in Exeter 
at the time, where the 
legislature was in ses- 
sion, and he led the 
troops against the in- 
surgents, who had re- 
tired a little out of 
the village. The insur- 
rection was suppressed 
without the loss of 
life, and the forty 
prisoners taken were 
discharged, " on their 
profession of sincere 
repentance," says the 
record. Londonderry 
had voted in favor of 
a paper currency, yet 
those who took part 
in the insurrection 
and who were church 
members in the town 
were required by the 

infantry. From that time on his rise was rapid, churches to make a public acknowledgment of 
In 1777 he was appointed lieutenant-colonel; in the error into which they had been drawn. It 
1778, colonel; in 1783, colonel by brevet in the would be something of an anachronism nowadays 
army of the United States, and in i 785, brigadier- to discipline a church member for being a green- 
general of the New Hampshire forces. He served backer or a bimetallist. Gen. Reid was appointed 
with valor and distinction in the battles of Long justice of the peace for Rockingham county in 
Island,White Plains, Trenton, Brandywine, German- 1786, an office of dignity and consequence in 
town, Saratoga, and Stillwater, enjoying the fullest those days, and in 1791 he was appointed sheriff of 
confidence of Washington. He shared with the the county. He was a man of great courage and 
army all the hardships of the encampment at Valley sagacity. So intense was the feeling against him 
Forgein the winter of 1777, and was with Gen. Sulli- in his own county for the part he had taken in 
van on his famous expedition against the Six Na- suppressing the insurrection that his life and 

165 




GEN. GEORGE REID. 



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WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



property were threatened. On one occasion, when five children: Caroline M., Sarah E., Mary A., 
an angry crowd surrounded his house at night, he Elizabeth W., and Henrietta O. Mr. Wheeler 
appeared at the window fully armed and addressed was educated in the common schools and at Pep- 
the rioters who had come to take his life. His perell Academy and Pinkerton Academy. He 
coolness and the force of his words alone induced was formerly a school teacher in New Hampshire 
them to disperse without doing him harm. Gen. and in the West, and subsequently was clerk and 
Reid died in September, 1815, at the age of eighty- salesman in different places. In 1865 he was re- 
two years. His wife, a woman of rare endow- ceiving and shipping clerk in the commissary 
ments and of most interesting character, was well depot at Richmond, \"a., and the following year 
adapted to the 
circle in which 



shemoyed. W^ith 
a strong and yig- 
orous intellect, a 
retentive m e m - 
ory, a cheerful 
disposition a n d 
great equanimity 
of temper, she 
exerted a power- 
ful and happy in- 
fluence over the 
more excitable 
and strong pas- 
sions of her hus- 
band, whose mili- 
t a r y life had 
served to give 
prominence to 
those traits of 
character by 
which he was dis- 
tinguished. Gen. 
Stark once said 
of her : " If there 
is a woman in 




he received an 
ajipointment i n 



HENRY S. WHEELER S HOUSE, DERRY. 
Once [lie home of Gen. George Reid. 



tlie treasury de- 
|) a r t m e n t at 
Washington. He 
was detailed at 
different times to 
examine the of- 
fices of internal 
reven ue collec- 
tors in various 
states, including 
Massach u setts, 
W-rmont, New 
\'ork, Pennsyl- 
\ania, Maryland, 
Ohio, West Vir- 
ginia, Kentucky, 
Tennessee, Ar- 
kansas, Mississip- 
pi, Georgia, South 
Carolina, North 
Carolina, and \"ir- 
ginia. Having 
overtaxed his 
strength, he re- 
signed in 1876 



New Hampshire fit to be governor, 'tis Molly and has since been engaged in farming in Derry. 
Reid." Her half-brother, David Woodburn, was His official life may be summed up as follows: 
the maternal grandfather of Horace Greeley. Clerk in the commissary depot in Richmond, Va., 
Mrs. Reid died April 7, 1823, at the age of eighty- about one year; official in the treasury depart- 
eight years. ment, ten years; selectman in Derry, seven years ; 

representative in the legislature from Derry, four 
years, making twenty-two years in all. While in 
LJENRY SPAULDING WHEELER, son of the legislature he was one of the most earnest 
^ -^ Thaddeus and Caroline (Farrar) Wheeler, advocates of the bill to establish the town system 
was born in Pepperell, Mass., Oct. g, 1835. He of schools, and aided by his speech and vote in 
married, in 1877, Hannah Maria, daughter of securing its enactment. Mr. Wheeler has had a 
Joseph and Sarah A. (Stickney) White, and has pronounced talent for music from early boyhood. 



WIL LEY'S BOOK OF NUTFJELD. 



167 



He tauolit singing scliool in the West, and has Manchester, N. H. In 1S76 she united with the 
sung tenor in church choirs for nearly forty years, First Baptist Church of the last named place, 
including the First Methodist, tlie First Church, antl in 1S80, having received a letter of recom- 
the First Congregational, and the Baptist Church 
of Derry, and a Methodist church in Nashua, and 
was connected with the choir of the Calvary Bap- 
tist Church of Washington, D. C, as tenor singer 
for ten years, being its chorister a part of the time. 
Having a svmpathetic voice of ample volume, he has 
made himself useful in the praise service in church 
and Sundav school wdierever he has been located. 
Mr. Wheeler joined the Baptist Church in Orange, 
N. J., in 1863, since which time he has been active 
in church and Sunday school work while living in 
Orange, Washington, and Derr\-. 





MRS. HENRY .S. WHEELER. 

mendation from that church, she and her hus- 
band united with twelve others to form the 
Baptist Church at Derry Depot, and they are 
among its most interested and loval members. 

GRISTMILLS were built in the first months 
of the Nuffield settlement. The first one 
was prol)ai)l\' that of Captain David Cargill, at the 
eastern extremity of Beaver pond, which must 
have been built before the colonists had been a 
year in their new home. There is a reference to 
this mill in the town records, dated Feb. 13, 1720, 
when in speaking of the road on the north (jf the 
jiond, running from Samuel Marshall's house to 
George McMurphy's, it says the road crosses the 
brook "below Captain Cargill's grist mill." In 
1722 Captain James Gregg built a gristmill in 
what is now Derry Village, possibly on the spot 
Mrs. Wheeler was born Jan. 9, 1853, in Derry. where W.W. Poor's mill now stands. In i 731 a mill 
Her education was received in the common privilege in Londonderry was granted to Benjamin 
schools and at Pinkerton Academy. She has Wilson, who built the first mill, since known at 
resided in Methuen and Haverhill. Mass., and in various times as Moor's, Goss's, and Kendall's mills. 



HENRY SPAULDING WHEELER. 



THE JAMES ROGERS FAMILY. 



TAMES ROGERS was born in Gloucester, 
<J Mass., March 31, 1833. He was named for 
and is the fifth in direct descent from James 
Rogers, one of the original •' Proprietors of Lon- 
donderry," who settled on the English Range. 
This first James Rogers was a brave man, fond of 
adventure, and after getting well established in 
Londonderry he moved further into the wilderness 
and became one of the first settlers of the j^rcsent 
town of Dunbarton. He was shot at night in the 
woods by a friend, who mistook him for a bear, and 
upon his eldest son, Robert, devolved the care of the 




MAJOR ROBERT ROGERS. 

large family. Robert Rogers, or " Rogers, the Ran- 
ger," as he was commonly called, subsequently be- 
came one of the most noted and heroic characters in 
New England. He was born in Londonderry in 
1727 and was twenty-two years old at the time of 
his father's death. The settlers in the Merrimack 
valley were being constantly harassed by the In- 
dians. It was a bloody and remorseless warfare, 
for the savages sought scalps, not captives. Young 
Rogers was appointed by the colonial government 
to the command of a corps of rangers then form- 
ing for active service against the French and 
Indians. John Stark was a member of this corps. 



which included some of the most intrepid men in 
the colonies. During the seven years' war which 
followed, Rogers was almost constantly in a [losi- 
tion of great responsibility, difficulty, and danger, 
but his achievements were such that Lord Am- 
herst reported to the English government that 
" Major Rogers of the Colonial service has by his 
discretion and valor essentiallv contributed to the 
success of the roval arms." In marching the 
rangers preceded the main bodv of the army and 
were trained to attack or retreat with remarkable 
quickness. In fighting the Indian tlicy adopted 
his mode of warfare and matched him in strategy. 
Their route was through dense and tangled woods, 
over hills and mountains and across rivers or 
swamps. But mountains, rivers, and hidden foes 
were not the onlv obstacles with wliieh thev had 
to contcntl. Loaded with provisions for a whole 
month and carrying a musket far heavier than 
those of modern make, besides their blankets and 
ammunition, they were compelled to bear the 
burden of a pack horse while doing the duty of a 
soldier. Manv are the anecdotes of thrilling ad- 
venture and hairbreadth escape related of them. 
On one occasion Major Rogers and a small party 
of his rangers were surprised and nearly sur- 
roundeil bv Indians on the shore of Lake George. 
Rogers had on snowshoes and succeeded in reach- 
ing the top of a high rock overhanging the lake. 
Throwing his haversack and other cumbrous 
articles over the precipice, he turned around in iiis 
■snowshoes without moving their position on the 
ground, and having fastened them on so that the 
heel and toe were reversed, he descended to the 
lake by another path. When the Indians arrived 
at the top they saw two sets of tracks leading to 
the rock, but none leading from it, and therefore 
supposed that two of the fugitives had perished in 
attempting to descend to the lake at that place. 
In a few minutes, however, they saw Rogers mak- 
ing his escape on the ice, and thinking that he 
must have been under the immediate protection of 
the Great Spirit, or he could not have descended 
the precipice in safety, they did not venture to 
pursue him. From that day the rock has been 
known as " Rogers' Slide." In 1 759, after the 
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retreat of the French troops and the savacjes to 
Canada, General Amherst determined to destroy 
in their homes the St. Francis Indians, who had 
committed unusual atrocities upon the settlements 
at Walpole, Hinsdale, and elsewhere. He selected 
Major Rog-ers for the task, and on Sept. 28 gave 
him this order: "You are this night, with two 
hundred picked men, to proceed to attack the 
enemy's settlement below Missisqui bay, on the 
south side of the St. Lawrence, so as most effec- 
tually to disgrace and destroy the enemy, and 
redound to the honor of his majesty's arms. Re- 
member the infamous barbarities of the enemy's 



in slumber. Never was surprise more complete. 
Most of the Indians were killed before they were 
aroused to consciousness. There was little use 
for the musket. The hatchet and knife made sure 
work. Some few ran to the St. Lawrence, but a 
majority of these were shot or drowned. The 
rangers set fire to every wigwam, and from the 
captive squaws they learned that a large French 
force and a few Indians were encamped but a few 
miles away. Only one of their own number had 
been killed and one wounded. The return to 
New Hampshire was accomplished only after 
great privations and the loss of two thirds of the 




ROGERS SLIDE, LAKE GEORGE. 



Indian scoundrels. Take your revenge; but 
though they have killed women and children of 
all ages, spare theirs. When you have ilone this 
service, return and report to me." Major Rogers 
started immediately on this ]jerilous march of over 
three hundred miles through an unbroken wilder- 
ness of the enemy's country, arriving on the 
twenty-second day at their destination, with a loss 
of si.xty men by sickness and fatigue. At night 
Rogers crept into the village and found the whole 
population in a drunken carousal over the return 
of their warriors. Just at daylight the rangers in 
three divisions entered the village, now wrapped 



surviving rangers. This was their last e.\i)edition 
in the royal service. In 1766 he was commissioned 
by the crown to explore the Lake Huron region 
and was appointed governor of Michilimackinac. 
Accused of treason, he was sent to Montreal for 
trial, but was honorably acquitted, and in 1767 he 
went to England, where he published a volume of 
"Reminiscences cf the French War," which was 
widely circulated. While trayilling in an English 
mail coach it was stopped b\- a highwayman, who 
with pistol at the window demanded the passen- 
gers' money. Rogers opened his cloak, as if to 
comply, and the robber lowered his pistol. That 



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instant the vio^orous hand of the wary American 
grasped his collar and drew him from his horse 
through the coach window. He proved to lie a 
noted offender, and on delivering him to the 
authorities Rogers received a handsome bounty. 
In the beginning of the Revolution Rogers re- 
turned to America and espoused the royalist cause. 
His name was on the list of tories proscribed by 
the act of New Hampshire of 1778. Leaving his 
family, never to return, Rogers went back to Lon- 
don, and thence to a post in East Indies, where he 
died some years later. General Stark, who served 
under him, used to say that for presence of mind 
amid dangers he never knew the equal of Robert 
Rogers; and he always regretted the circumstances 
which led him to abandon his native country. In 
1760 Robert Roarers was married to Anna, daugfh- 
ter of Rev. Arthur Brown, an Episcopal minister 
of Portsmouth. His son, Arthur Rogers, became 
a lawyer and lived and died in Concord. He mar- 
ried Margaret Furness of Portsmouth, and his son, 
Robert, born in Concord, married Sarah Lane of 
Gloucester, settled in Dcrrv, and was the father of 



the jiresent James Rogers, who was brought to 
Derry by his parents in 1835, when he was two 
years old, and has since resided there. He mar- 
ried, Feb. 18, 1864, Abbie Hall, daughter of Cap- 
tain Moses and Marv (Cochrane) Hall of Chester, 
and granddaughter, on the mother's side, of John 
and Jemima (Davis) Cochrane of New Boston, 
and great-granddaughter of Benjamin Davis, a 
captain in the Revolutionary army. They settled 
on the Waterman place, a farm once noted for its 
extent of territory (1,400 acres) and for the large 
number of cattle and sheep which were formerly 
kept on it. The children of James and Abbie 
(Hall) Rogers are: Elizabeth Furness, graduated 
at Pinkerton Academy in 1884, died Sept. 11, 
1885 ; Mary Cochrane, educated at Pinkerton 
Academy and at Salem (Mass.) Normal School, 
now a teacher in Lawrence, Mass. ; Helen Grace, 
graduated at Pinkerton Academy in 1891, entered 
Wellesley College in 1893; Anna Crombie, grad- 
uated at Pinkertt)n Academy in 1893; James 
Arthur, now pursuing a course in the business 
coilcire at Manchester. 









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171 



OAMUEL HOWARD BELL was born in 
^ Lawrence, Mass., May 17, 1858. He is the 
son of William and Ellen Weeks (Kelley) Bell. 
His father, who was born in England, emigrated 
to America and settled first in Fall River and 
afterward in Lawrence, where he became a clerk 
in the counting-room of the Pacific Mills. His 
mother was the daughter of Daniel Kelley of Gil- 
manton. Mr. Bell studied pharmacy in Lawrence 
wdth Henry M. Whitney, the oldest apothecary 
then in the profession there, and in 1879 opened 
a drug store in Association Hall at Derry Lower 
Village. Li 1883 he found it advantageous to 
extend his business bv establishing a branch store 
at the Depot, purchasing the building now occu- 
pied by him and furnishing it with a complete 
stock unsurpassed in any country town. In 1889 
he built a substantia] and commodious residence 
on Broadway, in which he now lives with his 
family. He was married Jan. 28, 1880, to Miss 




13, 1892, died Nov. 20, 1892. Mr. Bell is a 
member of Echo Lodge, No. 61, I. O. O. F. ; an 
officer of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, 
and of Rockingham, No. 29. 



JOHN HENRY PARMERTON, only son 
<J of John and Sarah F. (Bigelow) Parmerton, 
was born in Londonderry Jan. 18, 1852. Five 




Etta M. 
America 
born to 
May 21, 

15a 



JOHN H. PARMERTOX. 

years later his parents moved to Derry, where he 
attended the town schools and Pinkcrton' Academy 
and assisted his father on the farm until he was 
seventeen years old. He then entered the employ 
■ of H. E. Eastman, dealer in general merchandise 
at Derry Depot, and remained with hinV two years. 
Nice of Lawrence, whose father came to going from there to Lawrence, Mass.,' where he 
from Scotland. Two children have been secured a position with Shattuck Brothers, whole- 
Mr. and Mrs. Bell: John Howard, born sale and retail grocers. In 1886 he relumed to 
1883, and William Emmons, born April Derry and bought W. S. Pillsbury's interest in the 



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ALFRED E. MORSE. 



HENRY W. BAGLEY. 





CHARLES S. PILLSHURY. 



MRS. CHARLES. S. TILLSBURY. 



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firm of L. H. & W. S. Fillsbury. .Vfter two years 
he sold his interest to Pillsbury & Moody, and 
then, with headquarters at Manchester and Law- 
rence, he sold a line of groceries, opening later at 
Manchester a wholesale and retail grocery, which 
he still continues. In 1893 Mr. Parmerton was 
married to Miss Lcnettc Foster of Boston. 



A LFRED E. MORSE, son of John and 
'^ Mary M. Morse, was born on the Mammoth 
road in Londonderry, Jul\- 4, 1855. Two years 
later his parents removed to Manchester, and 
here he has since resided, his education having 
been obtained in the public schools. He early 
learned the undertaking business, and mastered all 
its details, especially the art of embalming, which 
in recent years has been carried to such a high 
state of perfection. Mr. Morse is an adept in this 
art, and giving, as he does, his personal attention to 
every case, he has won an enviable reputation. 
As the secret of an undertaker's success lies as 
much in character and temperament as in business 
ability, and as Mr. Morse is by nature well fitted 
for the delicate duties of his profession, the high 
measure of success which he has achieved is not 
surprising. June 16, 1891, Mr. Morse was married 
to Mrs. Etta F. Foster. Mr. Morse is a member 
of the Free Baptist Church Society and a member 
of several secret societies, and a thirty-second 
degree Mason. 



extensively, having visited Europe twice, 
one son, Charles G., born Feb. 15, 1865. 



173 
He has 



LJENRN' W. BAGLEY was born in East 
^ ^ Machias, Me., June 24, 1857. He came to 
Derry in May, 1881, and bought the place known 
as " Lakeside Farm," situated on the east shore of 
Beaver pond. Dec. 12, 1883, he married Miss 
Lucy E. Alexander, daughter of Robert and Mary 
Alexander. Mr. Bagley served the town as select- 
man in 1893, ''^"cl \\'as again elected to that board 
in 1 895. He is a member of Echo Lodge, I. O. O.F., 
and of Mystic Encampment, Derry Depot. 



OAMUEL WOODBURY, the son of Ben- 
^ jamin Woodbury, was born Sept. 28, 18 12, in 
Londonderry. When he was ten years of age he 
went to Salem, N. H., remaining there until 1837, 
when he was married to Miss Louisa J. Davis of 
Northwood. He then returned to Londonderry, 




SAMUET. WOODliURV. 



/^HARLES SHERMAN PILLSBURY, the 
^^-> son of Gen. Moody A. and Abigail (Dix) 
Pillsbury, was born in Boscawen, N. H., April 14, 
1828. In March, 1853, he sailed for a trip around 
the world. After crossing the Atlantic and Indian 
oceans he landed at Melbourne, Australia, and 
remained two years and a hall' in that country and 
in Tasmania. He then crossed the Pacific, and 
returned to his home in Boscawen in 1856. Ten where he purchased a farm. By trade Mr. Wood- 
years later he moved to Londonderry, where he bury was a shoemaker, although lie did little at the 
has since resided. Mr. Pillsbury has held several business except in the winter time. lie was the 
town offices and was a member of the New Hamp- father of nine children, five of whom are still 
shire legislature in 1872 and 1873. For about living, the youngest, W. E. Woodbury, residing on 
thirty-eight years he has held commissions as the farm with his mother. Mr. Woodbury died 
justice of the peace. Mr. Pillsbury has traveled June 3, 1878, at the age of sixty-five. 



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I'-R.^NK. A. Benson's residence. — 1894. 



FR.-iNK A. EEXSON, NORTH LONDONDERRY. 



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175 



REV. DANIEL GOODWIN, youngest son living, and another has since passed away. 
of Elder Joshua and Elizabeth (Jones) Widely and deeply mourned, Mr. Goodwin died of 
Goodwin, was born in Londonderry Jan. 25, 1809. bronchitis. Dee. 30, 1893, being nearly eighty-five 
He prepared for college at Pinkerton Academy, years of age. He possessed in a marked degree 
was graduated from Dartmouth in 1835. and from the characteristics of a true Christian gentleman, 

and though dead he still lives in the loving mem- 
ory of all who knew him. 

His father, Joshua Goodwin, of whom a brief 
sketch and a portrait are presented on page 154, 
was the son of David and Mehitable Goodwin. 
His third marriage was to Mrs. Ann Melvin. He 
was a man of strong and deep convictions. 
Devout and constant in his attendance at the 
house of worship, he was for more than fifty years 
deacon in the Presbyterian church and a teacher 
in the Sunday school. A highlv respected citizen, 
a kind neighbor, an indulgent father, and a loving 
husl)and, his death was a severe loss to the com- 
munity in which he had lived for so many years. 




REV. DANIEL GOODWIN. 



Andover Theological Seminary in 1838, and was 
ordained to the ministry Feb. 27, 1S39, at Brook- 
line. There he remained for sixteen years. After 
supplying for short periods successively the 
churches at Hillsboro' Bridge, Londonderry, and 
Derry, he served as pastor at Mason from 1857 to 
1878, and resided there until his death. His life 
in Mason during his pastorate and subsequently 
was one of marked usefulness. In 1885-86 he 
represented the town in the state legislature, and 
he served at different times as town clerk, as 
notary public, and as justice of the peace. Mr. 
Goodwin was married I'eb. 12, 1839, to Julia Ann 
Shute of Derry, who died Sept. 10, 1845. His 
second wife was Martha Boynton of Pepperell, 
Mass., whom he married Aug. 24, 1846. Her 
death occurred April 14, 1875, and Mr. Goodwm 
subsequently married Mrs. Lucy Jane Boynton of 
Pepperell. He had three sons and four daughters. 
One son and one daughter died while he was 




PROK EDMUND R. ANGELL. 



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JOHN A. MOORE. 



NANCY ELIZABETH (ARMSTRONG) MOORE. 





ALMH-iA ELIZABETH (DOUCE) CLARK. 



DEACON WILLIAM DANFORTH CLARK. 



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'77 



■pvEACON AND MRS. CLARK.-— William he has since been in active practice. Dr. Perkins 
L>' Danforth and Almira Elizabeth (Dodge) is a member of the New Hampshire State Medical 
Clark were born in the town of Derry ; the hus- Society; assistant surgeon, with the rank of cap- 
band, July 1 8, 1810. and the wife Nov. 27. 18 14. tain, in the First New Hampshire Regiment, Uni- 
His death occurred Dec. 14, 1882, and hers Dec. form Rank, Knights of Pythias; was assistant 
30, 189 1. At the respective ages of twenty and surgeon on Col. Frye's staff, First Regiment, 
sixteen they were married and settled on the 
homestead at the head of the Range, where, with 
the exception of one short interval, they passed 
the remainder of their three score and ten years. 
Twelve children were born to them, all of whom 
lived to manhood and womanhood, and eight were 
still living when the golden wedding of the parents 
was celebrated in 1880. Their eldest son, Francis 
Parkman, resides on the old place, which is still 
known as the "Clark Farm." Both Deacon and 
Mrs. Clark were active members of the First 
church, and in the discharge of his duties he 
demonstrated the fountain of his piety. In all the 
relations they sustained to the moral and material 
welfare of the community, their lives were sweet, 
uplifting, and helpful. 



CRANK B. PERKINS, M. D., the son of 
* Orin II. and Hannah J. Perkins, was born in 

Grafton April 25, 
1856. His early 
education was re- 
ceived in the com- 
mon schools and 
at Colby Acad- 
emy, New Lon- 
don, N.H. After 
studying medi- 
cine with Dr. J. P. 
Elkins of VVilmot 
and at Dart- 
mouth, he was 
graduated from 
that institution 
June 7, 1877, and 
began the prac- 
tice of his pro 
fession in Gran- 
ater to London- 
In Novem- 






DR. FRANK. B. PERKINS. 

N. H. N. G. ; is medical examiner for Derr\liekl 
Lodge, No. 13, A. O. U. W., and Rockingham 
Lodge, No. 20, K. of P. He is a member of the 
Masonic Order, and belongs also to Passaconnaway 
Tribe. I. O. R. M. 



MRS. F. H. PERKINS. 



tham, remoxing four vears 

derry, where he practiced ten vears. 

ber, 1893, he moved to Derr\- Depot, where 



[OHN A. MOORE, the son of James and 
>J Jane (Anderson) Moore, was born in Wind- 
ham, March i, 1831, on the farm where he now 
lives. He was married Nov. 25, 1S54, to Miss 
Nancy Elizabeth Armstrong, and these children 
have been added to the family: Alice Jane, born 
April 24, 1858 ; Nellie Orietta, born May 18, 1861 ; 
Cinderella Jessie, born Nov. 16, 1866. Mr. Moore 
was ordained an elder of the Londonderry Presby- 
terian eluiich Dec. 29, 1872. 



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ST. THOMAS CHURCH. — In June, 1869, Manchester, services being held four times a 3-ear, 
the holy sacrifice of the Mass was offered up conducted by Rev. Father McDonald or his assis- 
for the first time in Derry at the house of James tant. From iS;S until 1886 Mass was said from 
Madden, Rev. John O'Brien, at the time pastor of time to time at the houses of the old Catholic 

settlers, Rev. Maurice Galvin. Rev. Andrew 
Timon, Rev. John J. Lvons, and Rev. E. D. 
Mackey officiating at different times. Rev. W. J. 
O'Connor was appointed first resident pastor by 
Bishop Bradley, Aug. 15, 1886. The present 
beautiful Catholic church was completed and dedi- 
cated Nov. 28, 1887, at a cost of $10,000. It is 
a monument to the faith and generositv of the few 
Catholic families of the town. The present 




II. DERRV DliPur. 



St. Joseph's church, Manchester, officiating. Five 
or six families then comprised the Catholic popu- 
lation of the town. In the following year services 
were again held bv the same clergvman, this time 
at the house of John Duffv. In April, 1S70. Rev. 




INTERIOR OF ST. THOMAS CHURCH. 

William McDonald, the pioneer jiricst of Man- 
chester, had services at the house of Daniel Owens, 




PAROCHIAL RESIDENCE. 



parochial residence was bought April 27, 1887, 
at a cost of $3,000. Rev. W. J. O'Connor, pastor ; 
Joseph Jordan, sexton ; Mrs. Dora Jordan, sacris- 
tan ; Mrs. Kate Kelly, Al Laws, Mrs. Mary Laws, 
Miss Minnie Gagnon, Miss Arthemise Gagnon, 
George Boisclair, Remi Bienvenu, and Mr. Beau- 
chemin, members of the choir; Miss Mary A. 
Kellv, organist; Daniel Owens, president of the 
Rosary Societv ; Edward Kellv, Fred Corthell, 
Frank Sullivan, Willie Murphv, Frank Murphy, 
sanctuary boys ; the Rev. Pastor, superintendent 
of Sunday school ; Mrs. Joseph Jordan, assistant. 



and from this time on, the Catholics of Derry (See sketch and portrait of Rev. W. J. O'Connor, 
were attended regularl\- from St. Anne's church, page 152.) 



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'79 



T C. EASTMAN, M. U., son of Dr. Joseph 
'J • and Miriam (Calcf) Eastman, was born in 
Loudon April 22, 181 1. His grandfather, Tim- 
othy Eastman, a farmer in East Kingston, was 
descended from an old English family of high 
repute. He married Abigail, daughter of Col. 
Gale of East Kingston. Dr. Eastman's mother 
was a daughter of Joseph and Miriam (Bartlett) 
Calef, and a granddaughter of Josiah Bartlett, 




DR. JOSIAH C. EASTM.\N. 

a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and 
president and governor of New Hampshire for 
three years. The doctor therefore unites in his 
veins the blood of two of the most distinguished 
families of the United States. His father, who 
was a graduate from Dartmouth, died in Meredith 
at the age of thirty-three years. Two of his chil- 
dren are now living, the subject of this sketch 
and Susan Eastman Batchelder of Derry. Another 
child, Joseph, became a physician, spent some 

16a 



\ears in California, and reluming to New Hamp- 
shire, died in Hampstead. Dr. J. C. Eastman was 
educated at Kingston, Atkinson, and Saco (Me.) 
academies, taught district school eight years, and 
was graduated from Dartmouth with honors in 
1837. For a short time he practised medicine at 
Newmarket, and about 1839 he located at Hamp- 
stead, where, except during his militarv life, he 
has ever since been in active practice. He has 
been a member of the New Hampshire Medical 
Society over fifty years, and was its president in 
i860 ; he is a member of the Rockingham Medical 
Society and was twice its president ; he is also an 
honored member of the American Medical Asso- 
ciation, whose meetings he has frequentlv attended 
as delegate from New Hampshire, and lie was one 
of the three delegates from this state to the ereat 
International Medical Congress held at Philadel- 
phia in 1876. His favorite branches of practice 
are surgery and obstetrics, and he has attended at 
the births of over 4,500 children wiio have lived 
and of whom he has kept a record. Aug. 20, 1861, 
he was appointed by Gov. Berrv surgeon of the 
Fourth New Hampshire Volunteers, with rank as 
major, and accompanied the regiment to Wash- 
ington, Annapolis, Port Roval, Hilton Head, 
St. Augustine, and Jacksonville, doing laborious 
service for two years, when, on account of illness 
in his family, he resigned and returned to Hamp- 
stead. Shortly afterward he declined the colonelcy 
of a new regiment which was offered to him. 
although it would have been in accord with his 
tastes. When a mere lad he had been appointed 
cadet at West Point, but declined the appoint- 
ment al tlic urgent recjuest of his widowed mother, 
and subsequently he held every rank in the New 
Hampshire militia from private to colonel. In 
politics Dr. Eastman has always been a' Democrat. 
In 1843 he was county treasurer and was renomi- 
nated in 1S47, but declined the honor. He was a 
member of the legislature from 1847 to 1850; 
served his district in the senate in 1853, and was 
re-elected in 1854. The strength of. his political 
principles is illustrated bv the fact that when lie 
was in the senate the Knownothings urged him to 
accept the nomination for governor, but he indig- 
nantly refused the proffered bribe, although he 
might easily have been elected. Had the Demo- 



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cratic party since then been in a majority in this 
state, it is highly probable that ere this he would 
have filled the gubernatorial chair. For years he 
has been one of the standard bearers of the party 
and was its candidate for councillor at two elec- 




DR. EASTMAN S RESIDENCE. 

tions. He was a delegate to the national conven- 
tion which nominated McClellan for the presidencv 
and also to the convention which nominated 
Horatio Seymour. The doctor has held various 
official positions, of which the limits of this sketch 
forbid the mention. He was one of the prime 
movers in the building of the Rochester & Nashua 
railroad, and was a director in the company from 
the start. Dr. Eastman married, first, Ann A., 
daughter of Capt. Leonard Wilson (a pensioner of 
1812) and Elizabeth Gregg, who was a daughter 
of Nathaniel Warner of Derrv. Their children 
are: Mary Bartlett (Mrs. Lavoisier Hill of New 
York city) and Ella. His second wife, who was 
the daughter of Dr. Jerome Harris and Marv 
Tewksbury of Amesbury, Mass., died Mav 23, 
1 89 1. Their children are Josiah Bartlett and 
Susie A. The doctor has one of the most attrac- 
tive homes in the countv, in wiiich to spend the 
closing years of a busy and useful life. 



owner. His education was received in the public 
schools and at Pinkerton Academy. He subse- 
quently took a course at Eastman's Business 
College, and after teaching for a time he went 
into the drug business in A. F. Perry's pharmacy, 
Manchester. In March, 1876, he established 
a drug store in Attleboro, Mass., under the firm 
name of S. P. Clark & Co., about four years later 
buying his partner's interest and conducting the 
business since then under the same firm name, and 
with the assistance of his son, Clarence E. 
Although he began with a capital of only $430, 
which he had saved from his salary as drug clerk, 
he has now the lara:est and most successful dru<r 
store in Attleboro, having twice enlarged his place 
of business. The growth of his prosperity has 
been uninterrupted, although others have failed in 
the same line of business. Mr. Clark has also 
been highly successful at farming, his orchard last 




SAMUEL P. CLARK. 



SAMUEL PARSONS CLARK, 2d, son of vear having produced over two hundred barrels of 

E. T. Clark, was born July 14, 1844, on the apples, and he has more than doubled his hay 

English Range, district No. 8, Derry. Soon after crop by the use of chemical fertilizers alone. He 

his father's death, about ten years ago, he pur- has removed the stone, drained, and made some 

chased the old homestead, and has since been its worthless low land the most valuable on his farm, 



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so that it cuts three or four tons of good English 
hay to the acre. Mr. Clark has also made great 
improvements in the interior of iiis old home. 



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I;LMER DANIEL GOODWIN was born in 



^ Charlestown, Mass., Oct. 12, 1866. His 
father, John Goodwin, was the third son of Josiah 
and Esther Goodwin (see page 36), while his 



/^HARLES GEORGE PILLSBURY, son of 
^^-^ Charles S. and Mary C. (Runnels) Pillsbury, 
was born Feb. 15, 1S65, in Webster. His parents 
removed to Londonderry the following year. At 
the age of seventeen he accompanied his father to 
Europe, and two vears later he graduated at New 
Hampton Institution with class honors. In 1886 
he was chosen a member of the school board, but 
resigned in a few months to enter business life in 
Colorado. Returning to Londonderry after an 
absence of two years, he was, in 1889 and 1890, 
elected selectman. Since 1892 he has been 
engaged in teaching school and in land surveying. 





ELMER D. GOODWIN. 

mother, Caroline W., was the eldest child and 
only daughter of Lewis and Eliza H. Bolles. The 
death of his mother, when he was eight months 
old left him in the care of his maternal grand- 
parents in Londonderry, and the father dying 
when the son was eight years old, he was early 
thrown upon his own resources. In 1882 he 
found employment in a grocery at Derry Depot, 
and later went to work for Station Agent Priest, 
remaining with him until the formation of the 
firm of Priest & Goodwin, which dealt in coal. 
Disposing of his interest to his partner, Mr. 
He was appointed notary public in 18S9 and Goodwin has since been identified with the house 
justice of the peace in 1891. Mr. Pillsbury was furnishing business, being for several years in the 
married, June 20, 1894, to Miss Alice E. Miller of retail establishment of Brooks & Co., Boston, and 
Londonderry. later in the wholesale business with Clark M. 



CHARLES G. PILLSBURY. 



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WILLIAM H. THWINg's RESIDENCE, EAST DERRY. 




CHARLES S. PILLSBURY S RESIDENCK, LONDOXDERKV. 



MRS. MARY A. WHITNEY S RESIDENCE, DERRY DEPOT. 



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Bailey of Manchester, where he still remains. In 
1887 Mr. Goodwin was married to Ella L. Sargent 
of Searsport.'Me., and they have one son. He is 
a member of St. Mark's Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of 
Passaconnaway Tribe of Red Men, Past Chancellor 
of Rockingham Lodge, K. of P., and Past Master 
Workman of Derrvfield Lodge, A. O. U. W. 




WILLIAM H. THWING, EAST DKRRY. 



A ARON P. HARDY, son of Daniel and 
■'» Sarah (Connor) Hardy, was born in London- 
derry Oct. 9, 18 1 5. His father, who was a native 
of Bradford, Mass., moved to Londonderry in 
1802 and kept a tavern there for several years. 
His mother was the daughter of Joseph Connor, 
a merchant, trader, and farmer in Pembroke. 
His educational advantages were limited, and he 



years of age, he then worked at shocmaking six 
months without compensation, in order to gain a 
knowledge of the trade. A shoemaker's outfit in 
those days cost about ten dollars, and young 
Flardy had only one dollar and a half. He suc- 
ceeded, however, in procuring the necessary tools, 
and bv working fourteen hours a day he was able 
to make three pairs of shoes. At the end of the 
year he found himself the possessor of fifty dollars 
net, and he frequently said that he was richer then 
than he ever was after. Loaning this money at 
six per cent, he ahvavs had money at interest 
during the remainder of his life, except when he 
invested heavily in real estate. By the time he 
was twentv-one he had accumulated about four 
hundred dollars, which he invested in a farm of 
thirtv-five acres, in order to secure a home for his 
parents. He later purchased much other property, 
his investments resulting profitably. May 5, 1842, 




AARON P. HARDY. 



he married Delia W. Brickett, daughter of Jona- 
than and Lydia (Kent) Brickett, and began house- 
was early taught to earn his own living. Remain- keeping. Financial reverses came, times were 
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DERRY NEWS OFFICE, DERRY. 




DICKEY PL,\CE, LONDONDERRY. 



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about forty per cent. Mrs. Hardy lent her willing 
assistance in bearing the burdens, and braided hats 
at seven cents apiece, thus earning fifty dollars in 
ten months. In the spring of 1843 Mr. Hardy 
had only one side of buff leather to show for his 
winter's work. He then took charge of the poor 
farm, beginning at a salary of $175 a year, and 
remained in that capacity several years, after 
which he went back to shoemaking for a while 
and then to farming, purchasing the Watts })lace 
of sixty acres, where he resided until his death, 
which occurred Julv 9, 1887. Besides his regular 
vocation as a farmer he also was engaged in trade 
for about ten years, first in the firm of Hardy & 
Pillsbury, which was succeeded by that of A. P. 
Hardy & Son. He was likewise engaged in lum- 
bering nearly every winter, and dealt heavily in 
real estate. He owned about eight hundred acres 
of land in Londonderry, several houses, and half 
of two stores at Derry Depot. In politics Mr. 
Hardy was always a Republican after the forma- 
tion of that party, and both he and Mrs. Hardy 
were members of the Presbyterian church. Their 
four children are: George H., born May 24, 185 1; 
Hattie E., born Jan. 17, 1854; John P., born 
Sept, 13, 1855, and Frank A., born Nov. 10, 1865. 




WILLIAM HENRY CROWELL was born 
Dec. II, 1844. He is the son of Samuel 
Crowell, Jr., and Hannah Eastman, daughter of 
Alpheus Eastman of Hollis, and great-grandson 
of David Crowell, who came from Rowley, 
Mass., to Londonderry about 1790. Sept. 20, 
1866, Mr. Crowell was married to Almira Alden, 
daughter of Edward Parker of Litchfield, and 
three children have been born to them : Nellie 
Imosrene, Mary Eastman, and Mvron Willis. 
The last named died at the age of eighteen ; 
Mary E. married Daniel M. McQueston of 
Litchfield ; Nellie I. is unmarried. In December, 
1870, Mr. Crowell removed to Derry and 
remained there until 1887, when he purchased 
the farm formerly owned by his father and 
returned to Londonderry. In 1S89 he was 
elected clerk of the town, and has since con- 
tinued to hold that office, 



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REV. CYRUS WASHINGTON WALLACE, 



REV. CYRUS W. WALLACE was born in 
Bedford, March 8, 1805, son of Thomas and 
Mercy (Frye) Wallace, and was one of a family of 
live brothers and two sisters. His youth was 
passed in agricultural and mechanical pursuits, his 
education being obtained in the district schools of 
his native town and at Oberlin Seminary, Oberlin, 
Ohio. He early manifested an inclination for the 
ministry and was fitted for this calling under the 
instruction of Rev. tierman Rood and Rev. Aaron 
Warner at the Theological Seminary at Gilman- 
ton. Having been licensed to preach by the Lon- 
donderry presbytery in April, 1838, he came to 
Manchester in May of the following year to 
supplv the pulpit of the First Congregational 
church, then situated at Amoskeag village. On 
its removal to the east bank of the river he was 
ordained and installed as its pastor on Jan. 8, 1840. 
For thirtv-three years he continued in this charge, 
resigning Feb. 11, 1873, but continued to conduct 
the preaching service in his old pulpit until the 
December following, when he accepted the supply 
of the pulpit of the First Congregational church 
at Rockland, Mass., though retaining his residence 
in Manchester. His dismissal by council from the 
First Congregational church of Manchester was 
on Dec. 16, 1873. In addition to preaching at 
Rockland he supplied the pulpits at West Stew- 
artstown, Drury, and Francestown, N. H., for 
several weeks at a time, but was never installed 
over any church save the one in Manchester, of 
which mention is made. He was a vigorous 
preacher, and his discourses were oftentimes 
eloquent. Two sermons delivered after his retire- 
ment from the Hanover-Street Congregational 
church are especially worth)^ of mention. The 
first was the last sermon ever delivered in the 
old church, which occupied the site of the present 
Opera House block, and was preached March 28, 
1880; the second was delivered March 8, 1885, at 
the celebration of his eightieth anniversary. Both 
efforts attracted wide attention at the time as 
remarkable for a man of his advanced years. His 
vigor and clearness of mind as demonstrated by 
these notable sermons ma\' be compared with the 
like traits of Hon. W. E.Gladstone of England. Mr. 

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Wallace was the first minister to hold regular 
preaching services on the east bank of the river at 
what was called the new village in the early days 
of Manchester, and his pastorate was longer than 
that of any other Manchester clergyman. He was 
an ardent Republican and in 1867-68 was sent as a 
representative to the legislature from Ward 4. 
It was also during the latter year that he received 
the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Dartmouth 
College. He was strongly identified with the 
early history of the city and prominent in all 
measures for reform. During the civil war he was 
for a long time a prominent member of the Chris- 
tian commission. His industry was incessant, the 
only real vacation he ever took during his long 
ministry being a three months' trip to Europe 
in 1854. May 19, 1840, he married Miss Susan A. 
Webster, who died May 15, 1873. He married for 
the second time on Sept. 30, 1874, Miss Elizabeth 
H. Allison. Mr. Wallace died Oct. 21, 1889, aged 
eighty-four years. 



/^ARRISON HOUSES, to which the people 
^-> could flee when threatened by the Indians, 
were not as numerous in Nutfield as in most other 
colonies, for the reason that there was no great 
need of them. Nevertheless there were a few, the 
house of Captain James Gregg, near the mill, 
being a garrison, and also the house of Samuel 
Barr, now Mr. Thwyng's. Rev. James McGregor's 
dwelling was surrounded by a flanker, which was 
built by the town, and in the West Parish a garri- 
son stood on the spot now occupied by the house 
of Charles A. Tenney. Tradition ascribes the 
preservation of the colony from the attacks of the 
Indians to the influence of Mr. McGregor with 
the Marquis de Vaudreuil, the French governor 
of Canada. It is said that they were classmates 
at college, that a correspondence was maintained 
between them, and that at the request of his 
friend the governor caused means to be used for 
the protection of the settlement. He was said to 
have induced the Catholic priests to charge the 
Indians not to injuie anv of the Nutfield settlers, 
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assure them that no bounty would be paid for their endeared himself to all who knew him by his 

scalps, and that, if they killed any of them, their frankness, sterling integrity, and fair deahng. He 

sins would not be forgiven. Another and perhaps 

more plausible reason for the immunity of the 

colony from Indian attacks was the fact that the 

settlers had secured through Colonel Wheelwright 

a fair and acknowledijed Indian title to the lands. 



REUBEN WHITE, who built and for so many 
years conducted the famous White's Tavern 
on Mammoth road in Londonderry, came of sturdy 
Scotch-Irish stock. He was born in Londonderry 
in 1795, and always lived there until his death, 
which occurred in 1856. At his tavern he and 
Mrs. White, the amiable lantllady, entertained 
many of the dignitaries and noted people of their 
day, including Presidents Polk and Pierce and 
Daniel Webster. He was frequentU- hunt)red by 





MRS. REUBEN WHIIE. 



died honored and respected, not only by the whole 
community but bv thousands throughout the state. 



ONE of the rough and ready characters of Man- 
chester was Richard Ayer, a capitalist who 
came from Suncook and took a strong hand in 
developing the young city. One da\' he was ar- 
raigned before a justice for fast driving on the street 
and fined ten dollars. He handed the court two 
ten-dollar bills, and was asked what the extra bill 
was for. " My dog ran, too," was the sarcastic reply. 



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REUBEN WHITE. 



'HE READY WIT of Rev. Cyrus W. Wal- 
lace of Manchester was well known to 
several generations of his time. One day J. 
Bailey Moore, a newspaper reporter, stopped in 
front of the parson's j^ard, observing the divine 
his fellow citizens by election to public office, heaping brush on a roaring fire. " I suppose you 
having been postmaster and having represented wish all the sinners were in that fire, parson ? " said 
his town in the legislature. Reuben White was the reporter. " No," was the reply, " I have been 
a man of strong individuality, who nevertheless preaching all these years to keep them out of it," 



INDIANS OF THE MERRIMACK. 



IF tlicrc is any truth in the adaoc that the only "Concerning the original of the Savages or In- 
good Indian is a dead Indian, then we may dians in New England, there is nothing of cer- 
say that the people found uimn tiiis continent, tainty to be concluded; hut yet it may rationally 
wlien the white man landed upon these shores, he made out that all the Indians of America, from 
iiave well earned the title of " Noble Red Man." the straits of Magellan and its islands on the south 
Unfortunately for the American Indian, the first unto the most northerly part yet discovered, are 
settlers were to a great extent religious bigots, originally of the same nation or sort of people." 
Driven from their own country l)y jiersecutions. The color of their skin, the shape of their bodies, 
they in turn persecuted those who did not agree their black hair, their dark, dull eyes led many to 
with them. The Puritans could not endure the believe them to have been of Asiatic origin. More 
thought that any religious instruction should be recent investigations and discoveries of ancient 
imparted to the uncivilized red man, unless it was ruins in Mexico and Central America Wduld indi- 
in accordance with the doctrines of the particular cate that this continent was the home of primitive 
denomination to wiiich they belonged ; and out man, and that Asia and all the East were peopled 
of this bigotry came tiiose cruel Indian wars, that from what was supposed to be the new world. 
ha\'e left only the name of a once powerful people. Of that people who once inhabited the valley 

The mistakes of historians, caused by lack of of the Merrimack, not one is left to tell the story 

knowledge of their subject, have, in the light of of his conflicts with the whites. Naught is left to 

recent investigations, left much that was formerly us but our mountains, lakes, and rivers, that still 

relied upon as truth of less value than tradition, retain, in a disfigured form, the names given them 

When the English began to colonize New by the retl man ; and even these have been so dis- 

England, and the French Acadia, they found the torted that many of them cannot be interpreted 

whole country occupied by a race of people whom by those who have made a careful study of their 

Columbus had called Indians, and by that name language. Fortunately, the early missionaries, 

they have since been known, the red man taking who devoted their lives to the service of the 

the same name, to distinguish himself from the Indians, have left us vocabularies from which we 

white man, for in the Indian language there was can, to a certain extent, learn the true meaning of 

nt) race name. Of their origin nothing was their language, and admire the beauty of their 

known, not even by reliable tradition. dialect. Rev. John Eliot, in his translation of the 

Daniel Gookin, who for many years was a co- Bible, gives us mucii of the language of the In- 

laborer with Rev. John Eliot in his woiTc of dians with whom he labored. Roger Williams 

Christianizing the Indians of Massachusetts, and furnishes us with the key to the Narragansett lan- 

who was appointed magistrate in 1652, and four guage. Several short vocabularies of other tribes 

years later commissioned superintendent of all the have been prepared and ]irinted. 
Indians of Massachusetts, says, in his historical Rev. Joseph Aubery, who for many years was 

collections of the Indians of New England : a missionary among the Abenakis, left a valuable 

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contribution. There are now in the possession of 
one of the churches in Canada several old manuscript 
volumes of the Abenaki language. These volumes, 
numbering ten in all, are written on good paper, 
in a plain hand. The first volume is a dictionary 
of the language, in quarto form, containing 540 
pages, commencing with the word "abandonne" 
and ending with " zone." It is a complete Indian 
and French dictionary. The second volume is 
also a quarto, and contains 927 pages in double 
columns, many of which are left blank, for the pur- 
pose of adding other words as required. This 



the Indian names by which so many of our moun- 
tains, lakes, and rivers are known todav. No more 
valuable work could be undertaken by our histori- 
cal society, than the publication of these works of 
Joseph Aubery. Their existence has been so little 
known that no writer upon the subject of the 
American Indian has ever referred to them, 
except L'Abbe Maurault, in his French history of 
the Abenakis, published in 1866. 

The Indians inhabiting the valley of the 
Merrimack were known as the Pawtucket tribe. 
They lesided near the falls on the river, below the 




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volume gives the names of many localities and the 
construction of the language. The second edition 
of these dictionaries was prepared in 171 5. The 
other eight volumes contain mostly the church 
service translated into the Indian tongue. These 
unpublished volumes contain, without doubt, the 
most complete and accurate translation of the 
language of the aborigines of New England ever 
prepared. Father Aubery was perfectly familiar 
with the language. Had some of our historians 
of these tribes had access to these works, there 
would have been fewer errors in the etymology of 



present site of the city of Lowell. At the time of 
the settlement of Massachusetts, the chief sachem 
of the Pawtuckets was Passaconaway, who was 
said to have been a witch and a sorcerer. He held 
dominion over several small tribes, the Wamesit, 
Pasc«taqua, and Pennacook being the principal 
ones. The Wamesits were also known as the 
Namkekes. The seat of the Wamesits was at the 
junction of the Merrimack and Concord rivers, at 
what is now the town of Tewksbury, Mass. It 
was a great fishing place, and took the name Nam- 
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Chester, the Amoskeag. These two falls, bearing 
names so nearly alike, led Mr. Potter into many 
errors in his history of Manchester. He locates 
the Namkeke tribe at the falls in Manchester, 
when any one who will take the trouble to read 
either Eliot or Gookin will see that they were at 
the Namkeke or fishing place at Wamesit. Mr. 
Potter says the Indians of the Merrimack were a 
part of the Nipmuck Indians. The name Nip- 
muck was never applied to those Indians that 
resided on the larger rivers. Nipmuck (Nipnet) 
was a name given to the pettv tribes, or clans, of 
inland Indians scattered over a large extent of 
country, — in Windham and Tolland counties in 
Connecticut, Worcester and Hampden counties 
in Massachusetts, and the northern part of Rhode 
Island. Their principal seat was at or near the 
great ponds in Oxford, Mass. From these ponds 
they derived their name of pond or fresh water 
Indians. They were members of several different 
tribes. Some were under the jurisdiction of the 
Massachusetts, some under the Narragansetts, and 
some under the other larger tribes. They were 
called by this general name to distinguish them 
from the shore Indians and from the river Indians 
who lived on the Connecticut. The Indians 
residing on the Merrimack river did not properly 
come under the name of Nipmuck. They were at 
all times known as the Pawtucket tribe. Some- 
times the name Pennacook was applied to them, 
though the latter name belonged to the division of 
the tribe that resided on the river in the vicinity 
of Manchester and Concord. Their principal seat 
was at Pawtucket (Chelmsford), and they took 
their name from the falls in the Merrimack river 
at this place. Pawtucket was from the Indian 
word Pawtagit (who shakes himself, which shakes 
itself), in a figurative sense, applied sometimes to 
falls. The name is spelled a little dififerently by 
some. The Pennacook country extended from 
Concord, N. H., up and down the river without 
any definite bounds, and without doubt it included 
the whole length of the river from the Pawtucket 
falls to Concord, and as much above as this divi- 
sion of the tribe extended. 

Passaconaway was the chief sachem and must 
have been very old when the whites first came 
among them. He was at Pawtucket at the time 



of Mr. Eliot's visit in 1647, or would have been 
there had he not run away for fear of the English. 
Mr. Morton, who saw him in 1628, says he was 
ninety years old. On the visit of Eliot, in 1648, 
Passaconaway promised to become a praying 
Indian, and said he would advise his sons to do the 
same, some of whom were with him at this time. 
If he was ninety years old when Morton saw him, 
he must have been one hundred and ten years old 
at the time he was converted, or rather promised 
to become a praying Indian. Gen. Gookin saw 
him in 1660, and at this time he was one hundred 
and twenty years of age. In that case Wonalan- 
cet was born after Passaconaway was eighty years 
old, and it seems there were other children born to 
him after the birth of Wonalancet. The date of 
Passaconaway's death is not known. Mr. Potter 
says: " He died prior to 1669. He was alive in 
1663, and as Wonalancet was at the head of the 
tribe in 1669, it is evident that Passaconaway was 
dead at this time." The fact that W^onalancet 
was at the head of the tribe in 1669 is no evidence 
that Passaconaway was then dead. He relin- 
quished all authority over all the Indians subject 
to him to Wonalancet in 1660. It was at this 
time that he delivered the speech attributed to him 
called his dying speech. He had become very old 
and incapacitated to perform the duties incumbent 
upon one occupying so high a position ; so he 
called all his people together and informed them 
of his intention of surrendering the sachemship to 
his son, Wonalancet. The great speech which he 
is said to have delivered on this occasion has been 
handed down to us, and no less than three entirely 
dififerent versions of it have been given. It is 
much more likely that all these pretended eloquent 
remarks originated in the fertile brain of some 
white man, or it may have been that instead of 
delivering the speech he obtained leave to have it 
printed, as is the custom in modern days. 

After Wonalancet had become chief sachem 
of the tribe, it would be a fair presumption that 
he repaired to Pawtucket and surrendered the 
Pennacook tribe to the grandson of Passaconaway, 
Kancamagus, oldest son of Nanamocomuck, who 
had a sachemship formerly at Wachusett, later at 
Groton, Mass. After Wonalancet assumed full 
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at Pawtucket and retained that place as the princi- 
pal seat of the tribe, as his father had before him, 
for in 1663, in answer to the request of Nanaleucet, 
second son of Passaconaway, having many children 
and no land of his own to plant, he was granted 
one hundred acres of land lying upon a great hill, 
near a great pond, about twelve miles distant from 
the house of John Euered, part of which land was 
formerly planted by Nanalaucet, and Euered, 
Webb, and Hinckman of Chelmsford were ap- 
pointed to lay out the same. Instead of leaving 
Pennacook and going down the river, in fear of 



A party of French Indians (of whom some were of kindred of 
this sachem's wife) very lately fell upon this people, being but 
few and unarmed, and partly by persuasion, partly by force, 
carried them all away. One, with his wife, child and kinswoman, 
who were of our praying Indians, made their escape and came 
into the English and discovered what was done. These things 
keep some in a continual disgust and jealousy of all the Indians. 

Wonalancet seems to have been at Pawtucket, 
or Wamesit, whenever Eliot or Gookin visited 
this place. Mr. Gookin, in his report of a visit 
made May 5, 1674, says : 

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the English, Wonalancet left Pawtucket and went 
to Pennacook, and being followed to this place he 
went further away. This would be inferred from 
the letter of Mr. Eliot, under date of Oct. 23, 1677, 
in which he says : 

We had a sachem of the greatest blood in the country sub- 
mit to pray to God, a little before the war. His name is Wan- 
nalaunset. In the time of the wars he fled, by reason of the 
wicked actings of some English youth who causelessly and 
basely killed and wounded some of them. He was persuaded 
to come in again, but the English having ploughed and sown 
with rye all their lands, they had but little com to subsist by. 



journey to Wamesit, or Pawtucket, and arriving there that e^fen- 
ing, Mr Eliot preached to as many of them as couUi be got 
together out of Mat. xxii, the parable of the marriage of the 
king's son. We met at the wigwam of one called Wannalauncet, 
about two miles from the town, near Pawtucket falls, and 
bordering upon Merrimack river. This person, Wannalauncet, 
is the son of old Passaconaway, the chiefest sachem of Paw- 
tucket [Query. — Was Passaconaway alive at this time ?]. He 
is a sober and grave person, and of years between fifty and sixty. 
He hath been always loving and friendly to the English. Many 
endeavours have been made several years to gain this sachem to 
the Christian religion, but he hath stood off from time to time, 
and not yield up himself personally, though for four years past he 
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keep the Sabbath. A great reason tliat hatli kei)t him off, I 
conceave, hath been the indisposition and averseness of sundry 
of his chief men and lelations to pray to God. But at this time 
it pleased God so to influence and overcome his heart, that it 
being proposed to him to give his answer concerning praying to 
God, after some deliberation and serious pause, he stood up, and 
made a speach to this effect : " Sirs, you have been pleased for 
four years last past, in your abundant love to apply yourselves 
particularly unto me and my people, to e.xhort, press, and per- 
suade us to pray to God. I am very thankful to you for your 
pains. I must acknowledge, I have all my days used to pass in 
an old canoe (alluding to his frequent custom to pass in a canoe 
upon the river), and now you exhort me to change and leave my 
old canoe and embark in a new canoe, to which I have hitherto 
been unwilling : but now I yield uj) myself to your advise, and 
enter into a new canoe, and do engage to pray to God 
hereafter." 

There is no room for doubt as to the authen- 
ticity of this speech, for Mr. Eliot made it a custom 
to copy down all the confessions made bv con- 
verted Indians. 

What was left of the Pawtueket Indians under 
Wonalancet forsook their ancient seat in 1677, and 
removed to the north. Wonalancet was at Penna- 
cook in the fall of 1675, '^^ Capt. Mosley, on the 
1 6th of August, was sent to Penny-cook with a 
company of soldiers to destroy the remainder of 
his people. When he arrived at Pennacook he 
found no Indians. It seems that Wonalancet, 
either through cowardice or fear of the English, 
withdrew from the place, and while lying in 
ambush saw his wigwams and provisions destroyed. 
This would seem to settle the question in regard 
to what place Wonalancet went to escape the war. 
He evidently left Pawtueket, as stated b)^ Eliot, 
and came to Pennacook, supposing, no doubt, that 
he would be safe from harm, it being so far remote 
from the scenes of the conflict. Finding no safety 
here, he removed further north, but messengers 
were sent after him from Wamesit and he was 
induced to return to Pawtueket, where he remained 
a short time, and then in September, 1677, went 
to Canada. 

Did the apostle Eliot visit the Indians who 
came to the Namoskeag to fish ? Mr. Potter, in 
his Historv of Manchester, assumes that he did, 
for the reason that Eliot had expressed a strong 
desire to do so, and employed a man to cut a road 
from Nashaway to Namaske. One would on 
first thought conclude, as did Potter, that the work 



on this path began at the place now known as 
Nashua. But that was not the case. The only 
Nashaway of Eliot's time was the Nashaway 
tribe of Indians located on or near Wesha- 
kum pond or lake, about two miles from a white 
settlement, at Lancaster, Mass. A mission had 
been established at this place and Eliot went there 
often to preach, and was at times accompanied by 
Mr. Gookin. Eliot said it was a round-aV)out way 
to get to the great fishing place, which he located 
some three score miles to the north. The man 
employed to cut the road passed through Souhegan, 
but through which part is not mentioned. If the 
path was cut on a direct line from Nashawav 
to Namoskeag, he would have passed through 
what is now Amherst. There does not seem to 
have been any tribe of Indians on the Souhegan, 
only as they came there on their hunting ex- 
cursions. 

Mr. Potter further assumes that Eliot after- 
wards came here and established schools and 
preaching, and he bases this presumption on the 
statement of Gookin, who says " there were preach- 
ing and schools at Namkeke," and Potter says : 
" Who was there to preach and establish schools 
here except the Rev. John Eliot ?" The difficulty 
with this presumption is, that Gookin had no 
reference in any manner to Namoskeag, on the 
Merrimack, in New Hampshire. Wamesit was 
also called Namkeke, and Gookin says in the same 
communication, quoted by Potter, that there were 
preaching and schools at Namkeke or Wamesit. 
The Namkeke to which Gookin referred was at 
the junction of the Concord and Merrimack rivers, 
in the present town of Tewksbury, Mass. Mr. 
Potter says: "The Nashuas occupied the lands 
upon the Nashua, and the intervales upon the 
Merrimack, opposite and below the mouth of that 
river," and that Nashua means " the river with a 
pebbly bottom." The only Nashua Indians, how- 
ever, that had any existence were, as we have said, 
on Weshakum lake. Thev did not take their 
name from the river near which thev resided, as 
many of the tribes did, but the riv^er took its name 
from the Nashaway Indians. The name was given 
to them on account of their location ; they were 
inland or Nipmuck Indians. Nippe, water, was 
applied to the ponds, and Nipmuck to the tribe 



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that resided upon or near these ponds. Their loca- 
tion was between the Massachusetts or shore 
Indians and the tribes that resided upon the Con- 
necticut river. Nashaway is from the Indian, 
Nsawiwi (pronounced Nansawewe), and means 
"between," and was appHed to this tribe for the 
reason that they were located between the shore 
and river Indians. The same word is used to 
denote the points of the compass, as northwest, 
northeast, etc. ; Pabonki, the north ; Waji-nahilot, 



letter in the first four is k, and in the other four 
it is 1. They had two kinds of sulistantives, viz: 
the names of animate and personified things, and 
the names of inanimate things; also animate and 
inanimate adjectives and verbs that are made to 
agree with the substantive accordingly. These 
substantives arc distinguished by the terminations 
of the plurals, which are always k for the ani- 
mate, and 1 for the inanimate. The languages 
of the Massachusetts and Narragansctt Indians 




POLICE STATION, MANCHESTER. 



the east ; Nsawiwi pebonkik ta waji-nahilot, north- 
east, at, to, or from the northeast, literally, be- 
tween the north and the east. 

One not conversant with the various prefixes 
and suffixes used in the Indian language would 
likely fall into many errors, not only in the or- 
thography, but in the etymology, as has been the 
case with writers on these subjects. In the 
Abenaki lansruasfe, there are eiarht terminations 
for the plurals of their nouns, namely: ak, ik, ok, 
k, al, ol, il, 1. It will be noticed that the final 



have different suffixes to denote the plurals. 
The word au-ke is the one that has caused the 
most errors in the etymology of places that now 
bear the Indian name in New Hampshire. Au-ke 
was a word denoting ground, land, or place on the 
land. The French orthographv of the word was 
a-ki, pronounced au-ke. The terminations ke 
and ki are the same. Au-ke was never used in 
connection with a water location, for which ke 
and kek were used. It will he noticed that the 
difference between these is the suppression of the 



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first syllable an. Kck was used to denote the 
locality. The final letter k had the force of the 
prepositions, at, to, or from. In the Massachusetts 
language et was the termination for the preposi- 
tion. Au-ke was used in a broader sense for coun- 
try or region, as Winnepes-aukee, or lake region. 
Ki or ke was more limited in its application, apply- 
ing more particularly to a farm, a place, or a 
definite piece of land, as Wenos-ki, onion land. 

Namoskek, and not namos-auke, was the cor- 
rect way of spelling the great Amoskeag falls. It 
means " at the fishing place." The kek has a 
gutteral sound, and is so much like keag that that 
termination is generally used. 

Penacook is from the Massachusetts word 
penavi (crooked) and tegw, a word used in compo- 
sition for river. Sepo, or sebo, was river when used 
independently, but when as a termination for a 
river, tegw was the w^ord. This, being sounded 
with the gutteral tone, is so much like cook that 
it has been supplanted by the termination cook, 
viz : Penacook, Contoocook, Coaticook, etc. If 
Penacook means crooked river, than the true 
Indian orthography would be Penayitegw. 

Massabesic is from massa, or, as it is some- 
times expressed, msi (large), or mamsi (vast), and 
nebe (lake or pond), and ik, which gives it its local 
term. 

Unconoonue is probably from kuncannow- 
et (breast), the termination uc from the plural ok, 
the breasts. 

Cohas brook, from coa, a pine tree, with the 
diminutive, coas, or cohas, "little pine tree brook." 

Our historians have presumed that Wonalan- 
cet and his people joined the St. Francis tribe, 
which were the remnant of the Abenakis tribe 
that had removed to Canada and settled on the 
St. Francis river, but this does not seem to have 
been the fact. The Pennacooks, occupying the 
Merrimacjc river valley, and coming from the tribes 
of Massachusetts, were called by the Abenakis the 
Patsuikets, the meaning of this being, "those who 
had established themselves in that locality by 
fraud." The tenitorv occupied bv the Pennacooks 
was claimed as the hunting and lishing ground of 
the Indians of Maine, who were a part of the 
Abenakis family, and thev came to the falls to fish 
in the spring and early summer; they camped on 



the hill east of the falls. They must have gathered 
there in great numbers, and were not only pre- 
pared to fish, but to fight in case of attack by the 
Mohawks. This tribe suffered more from the Mo- 
hawks than any other eastern Indians, and in prep- 
aration for defence they concealed large quanti- 
ties of arrow and spear points in the ground, many 
of which have been found in graves, which served 
as arsenals. On the occasions of these annual 
fishing excursions they became acquainted with the 
Penacooks or Patsuikets, and on their removal to 
Canada continued to treat them as their friends. 

When Wonalancet and his tribe went to Can- 
ada, they doubtless located on the shores of 
Umbagog lake. Pere Maurault, in his " Histoire 
des Abenakis," gives the etymology of the word, 
and says it is from the word Nidobakik, — " the lake 
of my comrades" — from nidoba, friend. This lake 
was the division between the Abenakis and the 
Patsuikets. After remaining some eight years on 
the shores of Umbagog lake, Wonalancet, in 1685, 
returned to his old seat at Wamesit, poor, disheart- 
ened, and old. He received some aid from the 
colony of Massachusetts, and died about 1700, 
near the age of eighty years. 

Passaconaway's oldest son, Nanamocomuck, 
who had been at the head of the small tribe of Nip- 
mucks at Wachusett, was living in 1663 at Groton, 
which was near the seat of Passaconawav. On the 
2ist of October of that vear a tract of land one 
quarter of a mile square was granted to him. 
One hundred acres, including the place where lie 
then lived, called his planting ground, was laid out. 

He later removed to the Amariscoggin in 
Maine, and joined tlie Abenakis remaining on that 
river. His son Kancamagus, or Hawkins, joined 
his father at that place, and thus virtually ended 
the history of the tribe of Indians of the Merrimack. 

Before the great epidemic in 161 3 made sucli 
havoc among the Indians of New England, the 
Pawtucket tribe, including all those under Passa- 
conaway, numbered about 3000 men. Tlie great 
sickness destroyed them to such an extent thai in 
1674 there were onlv about 250 men beside wo- 
men and children, and it is said that Wonalancet, 
when he finally left for Canada, had only eight 
men that composed his once powerful tribe. 

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remains, it is mixed with the white blood of the 
citizens of the Province of Quebec, and if they 
come back to us, it is not with the war-whoop and 
scalping knife of their fathers but in peace, to find 
honest employment in the mighty industries of 
civilization that have sprung up all along the banks 
of the profound Merrimack, where beautiful and 
happy homes have supplanted the wigwams of 
this peculiar and unfortunate people. 



ST. PAUL'S M. E. CHURCH. — The first 
Methodist Episcopal Church in Manchester 
was organized at the Center, East Manchester, in 
1829, the second in 1839. In 1840 a chapel was 
builtonthecornerof Hanover and Chestnut streets. 




Methodist Episcopal Church, with Rev. J. M- 
Buckley, now editor of the Christian Advocate, as 
pastor. In 1875 the Tabernacle M. E. Church 
was established, having as successive pastors Revs. 
J. B. Hamilton, L. E. Gordon, and O. S. Baketel. 
In 1882 these two societies united, and the present 
structure and parsonage were built. The following 
clergymen have been pastors successively since 
1840: Revs. John Jones, Silas Green, James Mor- 
row, Samuel Kelly, L. D. Barrows, C. N. Smith, 
Silas Ouimby, Justin Spaulding, Elisha Adams, H. 
H. Hartwell, Richard Rust, Henry Hill, John 
Currier, J. M. Buckley, Jonathan Hall, W. H. 
Thomas, H. L. Kelsey, D. C. Babcock, E. A. 
Smith, James Pike, C. S. Pitblado, and G. N. Nor- 
ris. Rev. Mr. Babcock repaired the Elm-street 
church and Rev. G. N. Norris paid a final debt 
thereon. In 1879 Rev. E. A. Drew became pastor 
and May i, 1882, St. Paul's church, corner of 
Union and Amherst streets, was occupied. His 
successors have been Rev. J. M. Avann, J. A. Wil- 
liams, J. M. Durrell and C. D. Hills. The church 
and parsonage are valued at $40,000. Improve- 
ments to the value of over $2,000 were made in 
the summer of 1895. 

The Quarterly Conference, the highest local 
authority of the church, is composed of the follow- 
ing: Trustees, — B. F. Piper, president; John Ro- 
bertson, secretary ; O. D. Knox, treasurer ; C. C. 
Babbitt, Miron B. McAllister, George Dearborn, 
C. P. Trickey, Frank T. Dickey, and George C. 
Kemp. Class Leaders, — Thomas Grundy, Miss 
A. Bernette Brown, George E. Cheney, F. R. 
Vose, M. B. McAllister, A. P. Tasker, J. Edgar 
Montgomery, Mrs. L. B. Sanborn, F. T. Dickey, 
George C. Kemp and Mrs. Emma F. Smith. 
Stewards, — H. M. Woods, Thomas Stafford, O- 
W. Cushman, C. H. Cushman, G. M. Morey,M.D., 
F. R. Vose, George A. Young, A. B. Johnson, 
A. G. Hood, Hugh W. Flack, C. H. Babbitt and 
George W. Lewis. 



ST. Paul's ^r. e. church, Manchester. 



REV. CHARLES DUDLEY HILLS. D. D., 
was born in East Hartford, Conn. There 



This was removed to the corner of Pine and Merri- 
mack streets. In 1842 the Elm-street building was 
erected. In 1855 the North Elm street M. E. he attended the common schools and the academy, 
Society was formed. In 1862 the two Elm-street and worked also on a farm and in the paper mill, 
societies united under the name of St. Paul's He spent two years at the Providence Conference 



WILLET'S noOK OP NUTFIBLD. 



19? 



Academy at East Greenwich, R. I., and graduated 
from the Classical High School of Hartford, and 
with honor from Wesleyan University, Middle- 
town, in 1863. During his student life in these 
three institutions he received only five dollars be- 
sides what he earned by teaching and preaching. 
In ids freshman year at college he supplied the 
pulpit in his native village. After graduation he 
was for two years principal of the high school in 
Westfield, Mass., where he had jjreachcd in his 
senior year. In 1864 he was with the Army of the 
Potomac before Petersbura; at the lime of the Burn- 




REV. CHARI.KS D. HILI.S, D. I). 



side mine explosion. Mr. Hills joined the New 
England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church in 1865 and the same year married Miss 
Emma J. Martin of Westfield, Mass. He has had 
pastoral charges in Northampton, Springfield, 
Worcester, Lynn, Lowell and Boston. In North- 
ampton the church was repaired. During his six 
years in Springfield, Trinity church was built and 
$15,000 expended upon Asbury church and the 
addition of a chapel thereto. In Lvnn a church 
was built, now valued at $100,000, and in Boston 
an enterprise was planned and executed which 



netted $18,000 to the Saratoga-street church. 
Thus he has had much to do with the improve- 
ment of material Methodism, to the amount of 
over $175,000. He was for six years in the Troy 
Conference at Pittsfield, Mass., and Schenectady, 
N. Y. From Pittsfield he was transferred 
to the New Hampshire Conference and ap- 
pointed to St. Paul's church in Manchester. 
Dr. Flills has been prominently identified with 
the New Hampshire State Temperance Union and 
the State Law and Order League as a member of 
the executive committee of both, and is now presi- 
dent of the Manchester Temperance Union, which 
he was instrumental in founding. He is con- 
stantly affecting public sentiment bv his coura- 
geous, consistent and judiciously radical demand for 
the enforcement of law in behalf of temjicrance. 



A NUTFIELD ENOCH ARDEN.— On a 
^ homestead near the Hill graveyard in Lon- 
donderry was enacted, the latter part of the past 
century, one of those peculiar domestic tragedies 
which Tennyson has immortalized in his " Enoch 
Arden." Benjamin Downs, a descendant of one 
of the early settlers of Nutfield, had grown to 
manhood on his father's farm and had wedded Mary 
Downs, who, although she bore the same family 
name, was not related to him. Their married life 
was extremely happy, and one son, whom they 
nametl Benjamin, came to bless their union. The 
Indian war broke out with renewed fury the year 
following the child's birth, and the father enlisted, 
for the lives and homes of the settlers were in 
danger. He went away, and no tidings of the ab- 
sent husband ever reached the desolate family. 
Vague rumors of his death were brought home by 
returnina: soldiers, but there was nothing definite 
to relieve the suspense of the anxious wife. Eight 
years went by, the war had ceased, and still there 
was no word from the missing man. It seemed 
impossible longer to hope for his return. At last 
Mrs. Downs, believing herself a widow, accepted 
the attentions of James Clark, one of her many 
suitors, and they were married. This union, too, 
])ioved to be a happy one. A daughter was born 
to them, to wdiom they gave the name of Elice. 
One day little Benjamin, who was now twelve 



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years of age, saw a stranger coming u]i the road. 
He stopped at the house and inquired if Mrs. 
Downs lived there. That stranger was the missing 
husl)and and father, who had been held in captivity 
1)V the Indians. Family tradition says there was a 
painful scene at first, followed by explanations and 
by forgiveness on the part of the first husband. 
Either he had not the heart or the inclination to 
insist upon his rights, for, taking liis little son 
Benjamin, he went away, no one knows whither, 
and from that day to this all trace of him has been 
lost. Mrs. George W. Goodwin, who lives in 
Manchester, is a daughter of Elice Clark, the 
second child of Mrs. Downs. 



DANI 
in 



lANIEL GAGE ANNIS, the youngest son 
a family of five sons and si.x daughters, 
the children of John and Delilah (Coburn) Annis, 



M- 



"ERENUS BOYCE was born in 
Londonderry, Nov. 8, 1849. His parents 
removed, while he was quite young, to Manches- 





DANIEL G. ANNIS. 

was born Jan. 25, 1839, in Londonderrv, and was 
reared on his father's farm. His education was 
obtained in the district school and at Pinkerton 
Academy. In earlv life he was engaged in teach- 
ing school for a few winters. Mr. Annis has filled 
manv public offices, having been selectman of 
Londonderry in 1867 and 1868; town clerk from 
1873 to 1882, inclusive; town treasurer from 1874 
to 1878, inclusive; collector from 1874 to 1884, 
inclusive; again town treasurer in 1891 ; chairman 
of the board of selectmen in 1893 and 1894, and 
justice of the peace since 1879. In addition to his 
farm duties, Mr. Annis was a partner in the Annis 
Grain and Lumber Company at Londonderry 
Depot from its formation in 1878 until the spring 
of 1894. He is a member of the Londonderry 
ter, where he received his education. After leav- Presbyterian church, which he joined in 1868, and 
ing school he was in business for himself most of he is also a charter member of the Londonderry 
the time until 1879, when he returned to London- Grange. Mr. Annis was married June 18, 1868, 
derrv, where he has since resided. In 1893 and to Miss Mina A. Gilchrist, who died Feb. 19, 1885, 
1894 he was a member of the board of selectmen, leaving one son, John S., who was born Sept. 24, 



MASON V. BOVCE. 



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His second marriage, which was solemnized 
Dec. I, 1886, was to Miss Fannie M. Fhng. 



1871 



WILLIAM G. CROSS was born Dec. 9, 
1851, in Hudson, N. H. He was educated 
in the district schools and at the Literary Institute 
in Nashua. After completing his course at the 
Institute he was engaged in teaching for some 
years in Greenfield and Merrimack. At the age 
of twentv-three he was married to Clarissa Colburn 
of his native town and settled on a farm which he 
bought from Henry C. March in Londonderry. 
In 1893 he was elected to the board of selectmen 
and was re-elected in the following March meet- 
ing. In religious convictions he is identified with 
the societv of the Baptists, having early united 
with that bod\- in his native town. He professed 
the articles of faith and was received into com- 




WILI.IAM G. CROSS. 



munion with the Baptist Society of Hudson, May 
I, 1870. Instead of lapsing from his duties in the 
accumulation of cares and civil responsibilities, he 
has strengthened the tie that binds him to the 
faith of his youth by being elected to fill the office 
of deacon in that society June 6, 1892. 



MOSES WEBSTER was born in Atkinson, 
N. H.,Oct. 6, 1803. He moved with his father 
to Derry in 18 16, and always lived with him until 
his death, after- 
ward with his 
brother James. 
He never mar- 
ried. His death 
occurred Sept. 
21, 1872. In 
his last sickness 
he was tenderly 
cared for by 
members of his 
brother's fam- 
ily. He was a 
man of unbend- 
ing honesty, of 
k i n d h e art, 
right-minded in 
all things, and 
respected by all 
who knew him. 
Mr. Webster 
was town collector of taxes for twenty years, and 
his settlements were always made with scrupulous 
exactness. The numerous nephews and nieces 
who grew up in the same house were exceed- 
ingly dear to him, and upon them he lavished the 
wealth of his affections. The shadow of age 
gathered quietly above him, and he passed away 
with an unblemished record of good and kindly 
deeds. 




MOSES WEBSTER. 



REV. AMASA A. HAYES was born in 
Granby, Conn., in January, 1798. He was 
graduated from Yale College in 1824 and from 
the Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass., 1827, 
and was licensed to preach. Immediately on leav- 
ing the seminary he was employed as a candidate 
for settlement in Londonderry and ordained pas- 
tor June 25, 1828, having received a unanimous 
call from the church and society. Mr. Hayes died 
Oct. 23, 1830. Rev. Edward L. Parker, pastor of 
the First Church in Derry, delivered his funeral 
sermon Oct. 26, taking for his text : 

He weakened ray strength in the way ; he shortened my days. 



MARY SHEPHERD DANFORTH, M. D. 



MARY SHEPHERD DANFORTH, M. D., been in her studying medicine, she resolved to 

daughter of Charles and Rebecca Farnum compensate them in a measure by settling nearer 

(Batchelder) Danforth, was l)orn in Derry May i8, home, and at their wish she began the practice of 

1850. Her parents removed to Manchester when her profession in Manchester. So averse, however, 

she was four years of age, and there she attended was she to their choice of her home city that at 

the public schools, leaving them in 1866, when she first she actually did not wish to succeed. Time 



entered Pinkerton 
Academy, from 
which she was grad- 
uated in 1869. A 
scion of old Puritan 
stock, her parents' 
wish was law to her, 
and she never diso- 
beyed them in the 
slightest particular 
until she decided to 
study medicine. 
Knowing that neither 
of them would ap- 
prove of such a 
life work, it required 
far more courage on 
her part to set aside 
their wishes than to 
face the opposition 
which was said at that 
time to be so formid- 
ably arrayed against 
the woman jihysi- 
cian. With her frail 
physique and her 
natural diffidence she 
seemed poorly fitted 
to meet the hard- 




MARY SHEPHERD DANFORTH, M. D. 



soon made a differ- 
ence, however, and 
if there is anything 
today of which she 
is proud, next to her 
being the first wo- 
man member of the 
New Hampshire 
Medical Societv, it 
is that she is a prac- 
tioner in Manches- 
ter. Here her early 
schoolmates made 
her welcome. Here 
her neighbors placed 
their lives and health 
in her hands. Here, 
during the first year, 
she earned in cash 
four times the in- 
come she could have 
received in the same 
city as a t e a c h e r. 
Here, in 1878, with- 
out so much as ask- 
ing for the honor, 
other women having 
sought it in vain, she 
was elected to the 



ships and struggles of a practitioner's life. Her Manchester Medical Society and became its sec- 
parents had hoped to see her become a successful retary, and here also it was announced to her that 
teacher, but just as they began to realize these she had been unanimously elected to membership 
hopes she left everything and, in 1 871, entered the in the time-honored and conservative old New 
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Grad- Hampshire Medical Society, and that too without 
uating in 1875, two fields of labor were opened to any petition on her part other than patient, modest, 
her, the one as resident physician of a hospital in daily toil. From here too she went as a delegate 
a Western capital and the other as missionary in in 1884 to the American Medical Congress. Here 
Siam. The latter would have been her choice, she has not only practised, but has built a home 
but realizing how disappointed her parents had and proved that a woman is no less a home-maker 

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and a housekeeper for being an active daily practi- 
tioner of medicine. Of these two hnes of activity 
she holds to the one as steadily as to the other, 
demonstrating- the fact that they do not conflict 
but are really co-ordinate in a woman's greatest 
success. Here, again, she has not only worked for 
the health of others but she has established her 
own and acquired therewith unusual powers of 
endurance, without which wealth and success are 
but ciphers on the wrong side of the numeral. 
And last, but by no means least, it was here that 
her parents gave her their dving l)lessing, assuring 
her she had been a hundredfold nearer them be- 
cause of her devotion to her hiirh callimr. 



Mary Louisa, who married Frank J. Corwin and 
resides in Haverhill and has one child, a son, born 
Oct. 2 1, 1894; Charles C, who died young, and 
Sarah Howe, who is assistant in the postoffice at 
the Lower Village. For some years Mr. Couch 
was engaged in the Home sawmill, and later he 
operated the sawmill at the Lower Village now in 
the possession of W. W. Poor. Toward the close 
of his life he occupied a store in the village that 
had been opened by the Howes just opposite C. S. 
Pettee's. This building was once the vestry-room 
and school of the Congregational society and 



JACOB SAWYER COUCFL the son of John 
^ S. and Mary (Brown) Couch, was born in 
Chester, N. H., July 28, i8z8. The lineage of the 
surname is traced back through grandfather and 
great-grandfather, Jacob Couch of Newburyport, 
to a generation of sea captains, one of whom was 
drowned just off the coast there on returning from 
his sixteenth voyage. When his vessel was 
wrecked all the crew perished, except one sailor who 
was washed ashore on apiece of the deck furniture. 
Captain Couch had a large sum in gold on his 
person secured by a belt around his waist, and the 
weight of the coin dragged him down almost 
in sight of home. When a voung man, Jacob S. 
Couch worked with his father and brother in the 
Couch mills in Chester. He had some musical 
ability, and was a member of the choir in the 
Methodist church at Derrv after removing from 
Chester in 1856. For about a year he was in 
partnership with his cousin, Nathaniel Brown, in a 
store in Derry Lower Village which Charles S. 
Pettee now occupies. Jan. 18, i860, he married 
Catherine Boyer Coolidge, daughter of Charles 
and Louisa Coolidge of Concord, Mass., and 
great-granddaughter of Joseph Coolidge of Boston, 
an ardent Son of Liberty and one of the Boston 
" Tea Party." She was born April 20, 1830, the 
second of ten children, in the house in which 
Ralph Waldo Emerson afterward lived many years. 
Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Couch : 




JACOB .S. COUCH. 



stood by the cliurch, having been moved into the 
village by A. McMurph}-. Mr. Couch was a mem- 
ber of Nutfield Grange for many years and also of 
St. Mark's Lodge. He was very tender and affec- 
tionate in his domestic relations and always con- 
siderate of the feelings of others. His death 
occurred Sept. 18, 1892. Mrs. Couch, who had 
been an invalid for many years, lingered on, en- 
during her misfortune and infirmitv with much 
fortitude until April, 1894, when death released her. 



CAPTAIN DAVID WADSWORTH, 



CAPT. DAVID WADSWORTH was born 
in Worcester, Mass., Feb. 4, 1838, his parents 
being David Wadsworth, a native of Worcester, 
and Caroline E. (Metcalf) Wadsworth. He was 
educated in the common schools of Cambridge- 
boro and Richford, Vt., in which places he resided 
during his boyhood. 
He also attended the 
high school at Rich- 
ford and Dr. Cros- 
by's private school at 
Nashua. On the 
breaking out of the 
Civil War he enlisted 
with the third New 
Hampshire volun- 
teers from Nashua, 
entering the service 
as a private and be- 
ing at once promoted 
to sergeant. Nov. . 
16, 1862, he was made 
second lieutenant ; 
May 16, 1863, first 
lieutenant; April 16, 
1864, captain; and 
was honorably dis- 
charged Sept. 28, 
1864. He served in 
Sherman's expedi- 
tion through the 
South and in the Ar- 
my of the James, 
taking part in the 
battles of Ellis Island, 
Port Royal, Bluffton, Jehasse, James Island, Seces- 
sionville, Pocatsligo, Stoney Inlet, Morris Island, 
Fort Wagner, Drury's Bluff, Wiers Bottom, Pe- 
tersburg, Hatch's Run, and Deep Bottom. He 
was wounded slightly at Drury's Bluff. 

The captain has a wonderful memory cover- 
ing the important events of the war, and this 
is augmented by a concise record book of his com- 
pany, kept by the clerk of the organization and 
now held by the captain. He has assisted many a 




CAPT. DAVID WADSWORTH. 



worthy comrade to identify himself with the ser- 
vice and obtain justice by this same record. 

Captain Wadsworth is a locksmith by trade 
and previous to 1877 was employed by the Nashua 
Lock Company. That year he was appointed 
jailor for Hillsborough county and removed to 

Manchester to take 
charge of the new 
jail built by the coun- 
ty. This position he 
has held ever since 
and he has had re- 
markable success in 
managing the pris- 
oners in his custody. 
He conducts a model 
penal institution 
which is a credit to 
the county. He is a 
man of wide acquaint- 
ance and lasting pop- 
ularity, strengthened 
by a social dispo- 
sition and strict in- 
tegrity. He was a 
member of the state 
legislature from 
Nashua in 1875-76, 
serving as chairman 
of the committee on 
military accounts. 
Representing Ward 
6, Manchester, in the 
same body during 
1893-94, he was chair- 
man of the committee on county affairs. He has 
always acted with the Republican party. His re- 
ligious affiliations are with the Baptist church, and 
he is a member of Louis Bell Post, G. A. R. 

Jan. 5, i860, he married Sarah A., daughter 
of Laban Moore of Nashua; she died June 10, 
1866. Jan. 18, 1873, he married Mrs. Mary E. 
Buel, daughter of Benjamin and Elvira (Duntley) 
Lund of Milford. They have one daughter, who 
is Mrs. Carl W. Anderson of Manchester. 



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T^HE JOHN McMURPHY GENEALOGY. 
A — Alexander McMurphy, according to the 
History of Acwortli, N. H., and the traditions of 
Gardner Murphy of Boston, was the son of Squire 
John MacMurphy, the first justice of Londonderry, 
and was born July 1 6, i 7 1 7. His father gave him in 
the Half Mile Range two hundred acres of land, 
southeast of the East \'illage in Derry. This land 
was deeded gratis, or valuable considerations not 
mentioned, back to the father Aug. 25, 1742. The 
deed shows Alexander MacMurphy to have been 
a cabinet maker at that time, and probably unmar- 
ried. About this time Squire John MacMurphy 
was buying land at Massabesic pond and had built 
a sawmill and gristmill there, and on Feb. 15, 
1750 (acknowledged before Robert Boyes March 
30, 1 751), he deeded the mill property, including 
three islands in Massabesic pond, to his son, Alex- 
ander MacMurphy, in consideration of love, good 
will, and affection. Alexander MacMurphy mar- 
ried Isabel Craig, and had the following children: 

(i) James, who married Margaret (Iraliam of Chester, Jan. 
I, 1789, with issue as follows: Betsy 1789, Peggy 1791, 
William 1793, James Jr. 1797, Alexander 1796, John iSoi, 
Mary C. 1803. 

(2) Jane, married James Graham of Chester, with issue as 
follows: Elizabeth 1784, Alexander, John, Mary 1780 and 
Sarah ; her second husband was Samuel Crombie, by whom she 
had one child, Samuel Crombie Jr. 

(2) John, born in 1756, whose descendants are herewith 
given. He was the grandfather of Gardner Murphy. 

(4) William, who sympathized with the King in the Ameri- 
can Revolution, and disappeared. 

Alexander MacMurphy's will was proven at 
probate court June 29, 1763. Robert MacMur- 
phy, James MacMurphy, and James Craige were 
the witnesses. All the property was left to his 
wife, Isabel, for the support of the children. 

John McMurphy, second son of Alexander 
MacMurphy, and grandson of Squire John Mac- 
Murphy, was born in Londonderry in 1756. He 
was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He mar- 
ried Sarah Graham of Chester, N. H., and moved 
to Acworth about 1784. Their children were: 

(i) William, born 1784: married Laura Shumway of 
Charleston : moved to Alstead, and was a farmer the rest of his 
life, dying in 1859. Children of William and Laura Murphy: 
(a) Sarah, l)orn 1815, married Rev. Giles Bailey, died in 1848. 

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(b) William, born in 1818, married Sophia Walker of Langdon ; 
moved to Boston ; was an accountant. (c) David, died young, 
(d) CaroHne, born 1824, was drowned in 1841. (e) Gardner, 
born 1826, married Hannah B. Flagg of Hollis, N. H. : settled 
in Boston ; a merchant, (f ) George S., born 1829, married 
Sophia Richards of Ellsworth, Me., died 1879. (g) Harriett 
Maria, born 1832, died 1848, unmarried. 

(2) Alexander, born about 1786 ; was a soldier in the war 
of 181 2 ; married Esther Chandler of Alstead, where he lived 
until his death : he was a farmer ; he had no children. 

(3) John, married Theresa Garfield of Langdon, and had 
these children : Nancy, John, James, Theresa ; none married 
but James, and all dead ; James, who was born about 1824 and 
died about 185 1, was a physician, married Miss Hart of Ver- 
mont and settled in Chester, Vt. ; their children were : James, 
dead, and Julian, who took the name of his stepfather, Adams, 
and is in the government service in Washington. 

(4) David, born Dec. 28, 1798, married Mary Goss of 
Dummerston, Vt., in 1833 ; lived in Boston ; was a State House 
messenger: died Sept. 26, 1877. His children were: (a) Charles 
Austin, born Oct. 10, 1834; (b) David, Jr., died at the age of 
19 ; Charles Austin married Mary White Ashley of Salem, June 
9, 1870, moved to Groton, Mass., and is a farmer; his children 
are: (a) Mary Ellen Murphy, born April 2, 1871, a teacher : 
(b) David I'^nos, born Nov. 2, 1872, a farmer: (c) |ennie Ashley, 
born Aug. 30, 1878. 

(5) George, born 1801, married Polly Maynard of (Jrwell, 
Vt., July 19, 1829, was a carpenter, settled in Claremont, N. H., 
died Aug. 6, 1881, leaving two children : (a) George, born Dec. 
19, 1830, a carpenter, unmarried; (b) E. Darwin, born June 4, 
1834, married Frances K. Dane of Claremont, Nov. 5, 1854, is 
a pattern-maker and has one son, Charles A. Murphy, who was 
born Oct. 9, 1867, and was married Jan. 25, 1887, to Ida L 
Patrick of Danville, P. Q., is a machinist and has one child, a 
daughter, Marion Dane, born Dec. 5, 1893. 

(6) Polly, married Jesse Williams and moved to Theresa, N.Y. 

(7) Betsey, married Wales Jewett of Langdon and moved 
to New York. 

(8) Sally, died young. 

Children of (riles and Sarah Murphy Bailey: (i) Caroline, 
died young, unmarried; (2) George W., born March 20, 1848, 
married Mary Lord of Maine, is a dry goods merchant in Pitts- 
field, Mass. : has no children. 

Children of William and Sophia W^alker Murphy : (1) a son, 
died young ; (2) Carrie, who married W^illiam F",. Hutchins of 
Cambridge, a lawyer ; they have two daughters. May, 1 1 years, 
and Helen, 9 years. 

Children of Gardner and Hannah Flagg Murphy: (i) 
Charles E., born 1855, married Marietta Ladd of Boston, is a 
merchant in Boston, has no children ; (2) Frederick F., born 
1858, unmarried, a merchant: (3) Gardner E., born i86i, mar- 
ried Louise Emerson of Boston, is a merchant in Boston and has 
two children : Gardner and Thomas Emerson ; (4) Grace Fl, 
born 1863, unmarried. 

Children of George S. and Sophia Richards Murphy: (i) 
Hattie M., born i860, unmarried, lives in Cambridge, Mass. ; 
(2) Laura Louise, born 1862, died 1865. 



THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, LONDONDERRY. 

IN T 739, twenty years after the arrival of the even social intercourse between the pastors. But 
first settlers of Nutfield, about forty families they were Scotchmen, and it was not to be expected 
living in the western part of the town petitioned that either party would yield. In 1741 Windham 
to be set off as a separate religious society, and on was set off as a separate parish from the East 
Feb. 25, 1740, the New Hampshire legislature Parish. As far as church polity and denomina- 
incorporated the West Parish of Londonderry, tional lines are concerned, the West Parish, now 
The first steps toward its organization had been the Presbyterian church, Londonderry, is the lineal 
taken five years before, so that the church actually descendant of the original Presbyterian church 
dates from 1735. This division in the original founded in 1719. A new church edifice was begun 
parish was caused partly by the location of the in 1769. It was located near the schoolhouse in 
church edifice, which was in the eastern portion of District No. i, not far from where Frank A. 
the town, and partly by the dissatisfaction felt by Hardy's residence now stands.- Although the ex- 
some of the parishioners with Rev. William terior was completed the following year, the 
Davidson, the pastor of the " old church." Rev. interior was not finished until 1780. Pews were 
David MacGregor, son of Rev. James MacGregor, made in 1787, and sold in the aggregate for more 
took the pastoral charge of the newly formed than $5,000. This house stood without much 
church and society. The house in which he alteration till 1845, when it was taken down and 
generally preached was on Aiken's Range, west of removed to the centre of the town, on the Mam- 
Pinkerton Academy. He occasionally preached, moth road, and fitted up for a town hall. The 
however, in the Hill meeting-house, about a mile session house was also removed and converted 
west of Aiken's Range. Although the town was into a tlwcllmg on the same road, about two miles 
divided into two parishes, east and west, parish north of the new church. In the winter of 
lines were wholly disregarded, forty families of the 1836-37, steps were taken for the erection of a 
West Parish being allowed to attend and be taxed new church, the building being completed in the 
for worship in the East Parish, and about the same fall of 1837, at a cost of about $4,000. The land 
number in the East were allowed to attend and be for the site, originally laid out to David Morrison, 
taxed for worship in the West. This division was the gift of Robert Mack. In i860 the church 
lasted until the close of Mr. MacGregor's ministry was repaired at a cost of about $2,000. Rev. David 
in 1777. For many years these families were ac- MacGregor, the first minister of the West Parish, 
customed to meet and pass each other on their way died May 30, 1777. During his ministry the ses- 
to church, and sometimes these meetings were sion consisted of the following: men, who were at 
attended with ludicrous scenes. Persons would different periods consecrated to the office of ruling 
go miles on foot, carrying their shoes in their elder : James McKeen, James Leslie, James Clark, 
hands, and putting them on just before reaching James Nesmith, James Lindsley, George Duncan, 
the church. Two or more would use a single John Duncan, James Taggart, John Gregg, Robert 
horse, each riding a short distance, and then hitch- Morrison, John Hunter, John McKeen, Samuel 
ing the animal for the other to ride on when he Anderson, Samuel Fisher, John Aiken, and James 
came up. It is said that two lovers, one belong- Reed. Shortly after Mr. MacGregor's death the 
ing to the East and the other to the West "forty-family quarrel" between the two parishes 
Parish, though engaged to be married, remained came to an end, the legislature in 1778 repealing 
single all their lives and died of old age, be- the law allowing that singular interchange of fam- 
cause they could not agree which church to ilies. Rev. William Morrison, D. D., succeeded 
attend. The division, continuing nearly forty Mr. MacGregor as pastor. He was ordained Feb. 
years, was productive of evils long felt in the town, 12, 1783, and died March 9, 1818, after a pastorate 
occasioning animosities between the members of of thirty-five years. Rev. Daniel Dana, D. D., 
the two societies, and preventing ministerial and who had recently resigned the presidency of Dart- 

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mouth College, was the next pastor. He was 
installed Jan. 15, 1822, and resigned in April, 1826, 
being succeeded by Rev. Amasa A. Hayes, who 
was ordained June 25, 1828, and died Oct. 23, 
1830. Since that year the pastors of the church 
have been : John R. Adams, 1831 to 1838; Tim- 
othy G. Braincrd, 1840 to 1855 ; William House, 
1857 to 1873; Luther B. Pert, 1875 to 1S79; Ira 
C. Tvson, 1880 to 1883; Henrv C. Fay, 1885 to 
1888; Frank E. Mills, 1889 to 1892; Samuel F. 
French, 1893 to the present time. The church, 
which is now in a flourishing condition, has 
a membership of 135. The membership, of 
the Sunday school is 107, and of the Christian 



Endeavor society. 



In a sermon preached in 



1876, Rev. Luther B. Pert, at that time pastor of 
the church, notes : 

That the Presbyterianism of America, through its Scotch 
original in the church of Londonderry and others of IHster 
origin, may be traced in some elements of its history to the 
primitive Christian church. 

That the Presbyterian church of America is not chargeable 
with anything real or imaginary respecting the antinomian con- 
troversy of 1637, nor respecting the witchcraft mania of Salem, 
culminating about 1692. This latter tragedy was in preparation 
here nearly at the time when they who founded Presbyterianism 
in America were defending the faith of Protestantism in the 
siege of Londonderry, Ireland. 

That the Presbyterian Church of Londonderry, N. H., if 
not the first, was among the very first to found Presbyterianism 
in this country. 

That the present Presbyterian Church of Londonderry, 
N. H., is the only immediate representative of the Presbyterian 
founders of the town, since the transference of the East Parish 
to another denomination. 



HORACE A. HILL, one of the prominent of- 
ficials and workers in the Eastern New 
Hampshire Pomona Grange, was born Nov. 14, 
1839, on the homestead in Derry where he now 
resides. He is the son of Charles Hill of Chester 
and Hannah T. Hanson of Brookfield, N. H. His 
education was obtained in the district school and 
at Pinkerton Academy. In his vounger days Mr. 
Hill engaged to some extent in the lumber busi- 
ness, but most of his life has been devoted to agri- 
culture. Ever since the starting of the Grange 
in New Hampshire he has been an active member. 
He was master of Nuffield Grange and overseer and 



master of the Eastern New Hampshire Pomona 
Grange, — the largest Pomona Grange in New Eng- 
land, — holding each office for two years. He was 
active in organizing the New Hampshire State 
Grange Fire Insurance Companv, in which he is a 
director, and he is also a director in the Patrons' 
Relief Association. Lie has been the State Grange 
deputy of the first district for four vcars, and was 
assistant marshal three years and chief marslial the 
last two years of the State Grange fair. Mr. Hill 
is a member of St. Mark's Lodge, A. F. and A. M. 
From early boyhood he has attended the old Pres- 
byterian church on the hill in East Derry. In 
polities he is a Republican and so faithful to his 
civic duties that he has never missed an election. 
He has always been a close observer of facts and 
for years has kept an accurate record of manv 
things, such as the dates of notable storms, unusu- 
ally hot or cold days, and other meteorological 
facts of especial interest to a farmer. Nov. 3, 
1869, Mr. Hill was united in marriage with Miss 
Lizzie H. Fitz, daughter of Luther Fitz of Ches- 
ter. Mrs. Hill was a teacher in the common 
schools previous to her marriage, and has served 
three years on the school board of Derry. The 
children of Mr. and Mrs. Hill are: Luther Fitz, 
born Oct. 11, 1870, died Nov. 17, 1870; Emma 
Josephine and Ella Mav, born June 9, 1874, 
graduated at Pinkerton Academy June, 1S94; 
Albert Lyon, born March 20, 1882. 




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HORACE A. HILL AND FAMILY. 



THE LONDONDERRY TORIES. 



AT a town meeting held in Londonderry April 
29, 1775, it was "voted that a committee of 
nine men be chosen to inquire into the conduct 
of those men that are thought not to be friends to 
the country. Captain Moses Barnett, John Mc- 
Keen, John Aiken, John Gilmore, Captain John 
Moor, Ensign James McGregore, George Dun- 
can, Jr., Captain Robert Moor and John Bell were 
this committee. Voted that the aforesaid com- 
mittee have no pay." In July, Robert McMurphy, 
Lieutenant John Pinkerton, John Nesmith, Cap- 
tain William Alison, James Ramsey and Peter 
Patterson were added to the committee, making 
fifteen members in all. The appointment of so 
large a body shows the vigilance with which the 
citizens sought to guard against foes at home. 
There were only about twenty tories in town, most 
of them living in the English Range, though a few 
resided near the First Church. Among them 
Colonel Stephen Holland was the most prominent. 
He was a gentleman of good Irish family and had 
come to Londonderry when a young man and 
married into a family whose connections were 
rather numerous. He was a tavern-keeper and 
merchant, educated, wealthy and inllucntial.and had 
been representative of the town. Holding as he 
did at the beginning of the Revolution both civil 
and military offices under the crown, he was early 
suspected of inclining to the cause of royalty. He 
was a very shrewd man, however, and so took 
measures to allay the suspicions of his fellow- 
townsmen. At a town meeting called for the pur- 
pose he made an eloquent speech denving his 
attachment to the British cause, and succeeded in 
quieting all fears. By a vote the citizens expressed 
their satisfaction, and he was invested with new 
offices of trust. But it was not long before he 
openly joined the British in Boston, and his estates, 
including four farms, were confiscated liy the act 
of Nov. 19, 1778. The same act also proscribed 
and banished Richard Holland, John Davidson, 
James Fulton, Thomas Smith and Dennis O'Hala, 
all of Londonderry. There is, however, no record 
of the confiscation of their property. John Clark, 
a tory living in the English Range, was sentenced 
to be confined for a time to his own premises, 



with liberty only to attend church on Sunday. 
One day he ventured to step across his lines to 
pick up a hawk which he had shot, and for this he 
was heavily fined. During the height of the tory 
excitement there was a barn-raising on the hill in 
East Derry, and a conflict was feared between the 
tories of the English Range and the Pinkertons, 
Aikens and Wallaces. But friend and foe raised 
the barn, imbibed the whiskey and departed for 
their homes in peace. The women of that day 
had their intense political sympathies as well as 
the men. It is said that the wife of Dr. Alexander 
Cummings "wished that the English Range, from 
its head to Beaver pond, ran ankle-deep in whig 
blood." After the battle of Bunker Hill many of 
the tories became ardent patriots. As a class they 
were elderly men of wealth, education and respect- 
ability, some of them holding office under the 
crown, and it is not surprising that they should 
hesitate to go at once into rebellion. After the 
close of the war a question arose whether the 
tories who had fled from the country and given 
their aid to England should be allowed to return. 
The feeling against them was deep and bitter, and 
the popular sentiment was strong in opposition to 
their being tolerated in the country. In London- 
derry this feeling was peculiarly strong. The citi- 
zens learning that, on the adoption of articles of 
peace, a clause had been inserted at the request of 
the British plenipotentiaries, that congress recom- 
mend that the several states make some provision 
for the return of the loyalists and refugees, a town 
meeting was immediately called, "to see if the 
town will take some effectual measures to prevent 
those men who liave been the cause of so much 
desolation and bloodshed in the land, to return and 
dwell among us, and enjoy the blessings of peace 
and the sweets of liberty." At the meeting thus 
called. May 29, 1783, a unanimous vote was passed, 
" to instruct the representatives to use the utmost 
of their power in the General Court, that the 
refugees have no liberty to come back to this state," 
and these instructions were drawn up and adopted 
by the town, and addressed to Col. Daniel Reynolds 
and Archibald McMurphy, representatives in the 
legislature : 



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HON. LEONARD ALLISON MORRISON, 
a direct descendant of one of the original 
families of Londonderry, was born in Windham 
Feb. 21, 1843. The line of descent is: John 
Morison," who was born in Scotland, and with his 
family endured the hardships and perils of the 
famous siege of Londonderry, Ireland, in 1688 -89. 
He came to Nutfield 
about 1720 with the 
first settlers, owned 
the farm in Derry 
Dock now occupied 
by Charles Day, and 
died there in i 736 at 
the reputed age of 
one hundred and eight 
years. His son was 
Charter James Mori- 
son,- who came to 
Londonderry in 1789, 
and who owned and 
died upon the farm 
now owned by Wil- 
liam O. Noyes in East 
Derry. The son of 
James Morison, and 
the founder of the 
Windham family, was 
Lieut. Samuel Mori- 
son,' who lived where 
h i s great-grandson, 
Albert A. Morrison, 
resides in Windham 
Range. Deacon Sam- 
uel Morison^ was the 
son of the lieutenant 
and lived on the bor- 
dering farm. He was 

the father of Jeremiah Morrison,'' who married 
Eleanor Reed Kimball of Bradford, Mass., and 
they were the parents of Leonard Allison Morri- 
son,'' who lives upon the homestead. He was 
educated in the common schools, m the academy 
at Gowanda, Cattaraugus county, N. V., and in 
the seminary now at Tilton. He was always a 
great lover of books, history being his favorite 
study. Mr. Morrison takes a strong interest in 
the public affairs of his town. He served as 




HON. LEONARD A. MORRISON. 



selectman in 1871 - 72, and in those years became 
a trustee and aided in the establishment of the 
Nesmith free public library, which contains about 
3,000 volumes. He presided as moderator at the 
annual town meetings for fifteen years ; has been 
justice of the peace since 1869 ; was an enumerator 
of the census in 1880, and was one of the county 

auditors in 1885- 87. 
He was a member of 
the Republican state 
committee in 1880- 
82, and of the house 
of representatives, 
1885 -87, being chair- 
man of the commit- 
tee on education and 
successfully piloting 
through the house 
the bill establishinsf 
the town system of 
schools. In 1 88 7 -89 
he served the London- 
derry distiict in the 
state senate, where he 
was chairman of the 
committee on educa- 
tion and was also a 
member of the com- 
mittees on engrossed 
bills, agriculture, state 
prison, and industrial 
school. Since 1861 
Mr. Morrison has 
been a contril)utor to 
newspapers and maga- 
zines, his time, since 
1878, having been de- 
voted to literary work. 
He is the author of the " History of the Morison 
or Morrison Family," an octavo volume of 470 
pages, published in 1880, which was favorably 
received b}' the members of the family and by the 
press in America and Great Britain, the edition of 
1,100 copies being soon exhausted. In 1880 he 
began the " History of Windham in New Hamp- 
shire," upon which he spent three years of unceas- 
ing toil. The work was published in 1883. Mr. 
Morrison also wrote a condensed history of Wind- 



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ham for the " History of Rockingham and Strafford 
Counties." In 1884 he spent several months in 
Europe in historical research and travel, visiting 
the Scotch settlements in Ireland, consulting 
many old records and libraries and making the 
acquaintance of many distinguished persons in 
different parts of Great Britain. As a result of 
these travels and researches, his " Rambles in 
Europe, in Ireland, Scotland, England, Belgium, 
Germany, Switzerland, and France ; with Historic 
Facts Relating to Scotch-American Families, 
Gathered in Scotland and the North of Ireland," 
was published in 1S87. He again visited Europe 
for historical purposes in 1889, travelling exten- 
sively in Great Britain, France, Switzerland, and 
Italy, and in 1891 his "Among the Scotch-Irish; 
and Through Seven Countries " was published. 
He wrote a supplement to the " Historv of Wind- 
iiam in New Hampshire" (1892); prepared "The 
Historv and Proceedings of the Celebration of the 
One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversarv of the 
Incorporation of Windham in New Hampshire, 
Held June 9, 1892"; is the autiior of "The 
Lineage and Biography of the Norris Family " 
(1892); " Historv of the Alison or Allison Family 
in Euroi^e and America" (1893); "History of the 
Sinclair or St. Clair Family in America" (now in 
press) ; and is joint author with Prof. S. P. Sharpies 
of Cambridge, Mass., of "The Historv of the 
Kimball Famil\- in England and America." Mr. 
Morrison's literarv and historical work has com- 
pletely absorbed bis minil, antl he has engaged in 
it with great enthusiasm and delight. In recog- 
nition of his distinguished services to education, 
history, and genealogy, Dartmouth College con- 
ferred upon him, in 1884, the degree of master of 
arts. He was made a life member of the New 
Hampshire Historical Society in 1893, and is vice- 
president for New Hampshire of " The Scotch- 
Irish Society of America," having been elected in 
1894 m place of Hon. James W. Patterson, 
deceased, and re-elected in 1895. Mr. Morrison 
is unmarried. His home is at Canobie Lake, 
Windham. 



Peak." The triangle of which Merrimack river 
may be regarded the base, represents the bounds 
of Haverhill, Mass., or Pentucket, the Indian 
name of Haverhill, as claimed by the citizens of 
that town at the time of the settlement of Lon- 
donderry. It included a large portion of the present 
town of Derry, and a small slice of Chester, besides 
several towns in western Rockingham. The part 
of Londonderry lying within the peak of the 
triangle was called " Haverhill Peke." Subse- 
quently the word Derry was substituted for Haver- 




hill. Hence the origin of the name of that locality. 
When the proprietors of Londonderry first began 
to lay out their lands, they supposed the line of 
Haverhill, as indicated on the accompanving plan, 
was the rightful western boundary of that town. 
Shortiv, however, ascertaining that the claim of 
Haverhill was not valid, they took possession of 
the lands to the east of that line and assumed 
jurisdiction to the full extent of their chartered 
limits. 



D 



ERR\' PEAK. — Few persons are aware how 
this part of Derry got its name. The ac- 
companying plan illustrates the origin of " Derry 



HTHE SPECTACULAR IN RELIGION 
* was not wholly neglected by those simple- 
minded old Scotch settlers of Nutfield. In 1741 
the West Parish voted, "that the selectmen raise 
as much money as shall be sufficient to build a 
pulpit equivalent to Dunstable (now Nashua) 
pulpit." And they raised about $500. 



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21 I 



Gentlemen, Whereas, by an aiiicle in tlie [ireliminaries for 
peace between the United States of America and Great Britain, 
it is to be recommended by Congress to the several states to 
make some provision for the return of the royalists or refugees ; 
and we conceive that every state in the Union are to act thereon 
as they think best, and that nothing therein is binding on the 
part of the state : and as it is our undoubted right, at all times, 
to instruct our representatives : we do now solemn!)', in town 
meeting, instruct you to use your influence in the General Court 
to prevent the return of all or any of the miscreant tories who 
have gone from this state to the enemy ; as the tories have been 
the princi])al cause of this long and bloody war. They have 
murdered our brethren in cold blood ; they have l)urnt our towns, 
robbed and plundered our citizens, ravished our daughters, and 
been guilty of every sort of rajiine and carnage that can be 
thought of; and by their lies, continually sent across the Atlan- 
tic Ocean, the war spun out to so great a length. We e.xpect 
that you will use your best endeavors, that nothing may ever be 
done for those infernal wretches, by this state, further than to 
])rovide a gallows, halter and hangman for every one that dare 
to shew their vile countenances amongst us. 

Attest, William Anderson. Tov-ii Vhrk. 

May 29, 1783. 



HON. NATHAN PARKER, son of Deacon 
Matthew and Sarah (Underwood) Parker, 
was born in Litchfield Nov. 21, 1808. His mother 
was a daughter of Judge James Underwood of 
that town. He was the youngest of si.x children, 
and his education was obtained at the public 
schools and in Henniker Academy. Going into 
business in Merrimack, he remained there until 
1840, when he removed to Manchester and began 
to take a leading part in building up the thriving 
town, which six years later was to become a city. 
He and his brother, James U. Parker, raised in 
Litchfield almost all the $50,000 capital of the 
Manchester bank, and upon its organization, Feb. 
3, 1845, he was chosen cashier, holding that posi- 
tion until 1865, when the bank was closed and the 
Manchester National bank organized. He became 
president of the latter institution, in which office 
he remained until his death, May 7, 1894. The 
Manchester National bank is an enduring monu- 
ment to the sagacity and integrity of Nathan 
Parker and his associates. Upon the organization 
of the Manchester Savings bank in 1845, Mr. 
Parker became its treasurer and held that position 
for nearly forty-eight years. At the time of his 



death he was the oldest bank president in the 
United States. Mr. Parker was one of the pioneer 
railroad men in New Hampshire, taking an active 
part in many enterprises. He was one of the 
largest stockholders in the Concord cSi Montreal 
railroad, and was treasurer of the old Concord 
railroad for many years. He was formerly also a 
director and the treasurer of the Manchester & 
Lawrence railroad, and for a long term of years a 
director of the Concord & Portsmouth railroad. 
Mr. Parker never sought political prcfcrniriil, but 
he was elected to the board of selectmen in 1845, 
the year before the incorporation of the city and 
the year during which the present city hall was 
built, the old town hall having been destroyed by 
fire in 1S44. He represented Manchester in the 
state senate in 1855-56, and might have been 
president of that body had he so chosen. In 
1863-64 he was a member of the house of repre- 
sentatives. He was always a staunch Republican, 
although not an extreme partisan. Mr. Parker 
married, in September, 1837, Charlotte M. Riddle 
of Merrimack, granddaughter of Capt. Isaac 
Riddle, a wealthy farmer, mill owner, and con- 
tractor of Bedford, who built the first canal boat 
that was floated on the Merrimack river. Mrs. 
Parker died in 1859, leaving one son, Walter M. 
Parker, who is now president of the Manchester 
National bank. One who knew Nathan Parker 
well thus wrote of him at the time of his decease : 

In the death of Nathan Parker, Manchester loses a citizen 
who has always been assigned a first place among those who 
have given her an enviable reputation in financial and business 
circles. He was a quiet, retiring man, who had no jiolitical 
ambition, no relish for show, no desire to be known outside the 
business in which he was engaged, and he devoted himself 
entirely and persistently to his calling ; but he was widely known, 
and wherever known he was highly respected. His integrity 
was never questioned, his sagacity seldom failed, and so success- 
ful was he in the management of his own affairs and in the dis- 
charge of the numerous trusts that were committed to him, that 
he came to be regarded by a large clientage as almost infallible. 
The banks which he established, and which were the objects of 
his greatest pride and closest devotion, grew under his skilful and 
conservative direction to be great financial institutions, and the 
other moneyed enterprises with which he was identified were 
among the most succes.sful of his time, a time when recklessness 
and incapacity often wrecked and ruined others. He was a 
kindly man, and always approachable and always pleasant, but 
never effusive or i)rofuse in words. He made no enemies. 



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WILLET'S BOOK OF NirTFIELD. 



HIRAM FORSAITH, son of Robert and 
Elizabeth (Caldwell) Forsaith, was born in 
Goffstown Sept. 6, 1820. He was educated in the 
public schools and at Pembroke Academy. Coming 
to Manchester in 1838, he was a clerk in a store 
until 1844, and then after two years as bookkeeper 
at Nashua he returned to this city as clerk and 
paymaster of the Amoskeag Manufacturina; Com- 
pany. He remained in this position until 1855, 
when he went into the hardware business. Six 
years later, in company with his brother, Samuel C, 




HIRAM FORSAITH. 



he started what is now known as the S. C. For- 
saith Machine Company. The partnership lasted 
fouj- years, when they separated, his brother con- 
tinuing the business and Hiram starting a shop of 
his own in what was then known as Mechanics' 
row, where he manufactured wood-working ma- 
chinery for fourteen years. He afterward travelled 
for his brother and was for many years connected 
with the wood-working business and iron industry. 
He was a member of the common council in 
1865-66, being president of that body in the latter 
year. In 1891 he was a member of the legislature 
and has served several terms on the board of asses- 



sors. He is one of the few^ surviving original 
members of the Franklin-Street Congregational 
Society, and is a member of Washington Lodge of 
Masons. Since 1857 he has been identified with 
the Amoskeag Veterans and has been captain of 
the organization. Feb. 17, 1845, he was married 
to Frances M., daughter of William and Sophia 
(Weston) Gregg of Antrim, who died in 1855. 
Two sons were born to them: Fred S., born May 
17, 1850, who married Eliza, daughter of Joseph 
Mclntire of Manchester, and Gregg, born July 17, 
1855, died Aug. 15, 1882. 



T^HE BEAR HUNT OF 1807.— The last 
■* successful bear hunt in the Nuffield region 
of New Hampshire took place early in March, 
1807. Two men who were out hunting in the 
northwestern part of Londonderry came upon the 
track of a bear and immediately started in pursuit, 
the animal leading them only about two hundred 
yards. His course was due south, and after fol- 
lowing him four miles without bringing him 
within range of their guns the men relinquished 
the chase to four or five other hunters whom they 
chanced to meet. The latter pursued the bear ten 
miles, when he took refuge for the night in a 
swamp near Pelham meeting-house. Early the 
next morning a large party assembled to capture 
him, but he quickly left his retreat and retraced, 
in part, his steps of the previous day. Still eluding 
his pursuers, he passed the second night in a 
swamp near the Windham meeting-house. On 
the third morning he started north and ran along 
the eastern boundary of Londonderry, followed by 
a crowd of men, boys, and dogs. Towards noon 
he took to a large pine tree near the site of the old 
church in Londonderry, and was killed by a shot 
from a gun in the hands of Deacon John Fisher. 
The carcass was taken to Daniel Gilchrist's house 
and dressed, when it was found to weigh two hun- 
dred pounds. As fifty men, all told, had been 
engaged in the chase, four pounds fell to the share 
of each. The skin was exchanged at Deacon 
Pinkerton's store for several gallons of whiskey, 
and the capture of the bear was duly celebrated 
by the crowd. 



THE THREE QUARTER MILE RANGE, 



BY REV. JESSE G. McMURPHY. 



THIS range of homesteads, occupied before 
the charter of Londonderry was sjranted, and 
probably not included in the deed of John Wheel- 
wright to the colony of Nutfield, remained for 
many years in doubtlid ownership, the people of 
Haverhill claiming it and all that tract of land in the 
present township of Derry lying east of a meridi- 
onal line passing through the most easterly 
corner of the English Range. The beginning of 
surveys was at the inlav of Capt. David Cargill's 
fulling mill, and the millpond lay wholly in the 
disputed territory. An examination of the head- 
lines in the vicinity of this starting place will show 
the insignificant variations in the course of an 
imaginary boundary once considered a matter of 
weighty importance. The origin of the name of 
the range is found in the dimensions of the home- 
steads. They were laid out two hundred and forty 
rods in length and of sufficient width to contain 
from forty to fifty acres of land. The westerly 
ends were considered more convenient and ser- 
viceable for the proprietors' residences and culti- 
vation, and the easterly ends remained for pas- 
turage and timber. The highway for the accom- 
modation of the range settlers passed along the 
western ends and was a principal line of communi- 
cation between Boston, Haverhill, and the settle- 
ments lying to the north of them. 

At the top of the map is shown a portion of 
Stephen Pierce's homestead. He was an ancestor 
of the governor. Adjoining was the homestead 
of Andrew Spalding, the lots forming an exact 
isosceles triangle filling the space between the 
English Range and the Three Quarter Mile 

19 



Range and the homestead of Samuel Graves. 
The settlers upon these lots of the Three Quarter 
Mile Range were disturbed by the people of 
Hav^erhill and probably with good reasons, as it 
appears quite evident the deeds, grants, and 
charters of the times were conflicting and the 
actual settlers found themselves involved in seem- 
ingly inextricable difficulties, and compelled to 
fight or surrender without knowing the true cause 
of their misfortunes. It appears upon the records 
of the town that Governor Wentworth received 
and occupied a farm in this range, the first slice 
taken off the Haverhill claim, and that he formally 
resigned this land eight years later. Perhaps a 
transcript of these records may be of interest as 
fully explaining the transaction. The Governor 
Wentworth place is clearly identified as the farm 
occupied afterwards by the Hunters and later by 
J. T. G. Dinsmore, and now in possession of 
Robert Rogers, the house next above that of 
Benjamin Adams : 

Nutfield .September i6"' 1721. Laid out to the Honorable 
Lieutenant Governor \Vent\vorth forty acres of land it being the 
second division of land in the above said town bounded as fol- 
loweth : beginning at a white oak tree at the south west corner, 
trom thence running east two hundred and forty rods and bound- 
ing ujjon Alexander McMurphy's land until it come to a stake 
& heap of stones, from thence running north twenty eight rods 
unto a white oak tree marked, from thence running west two 
hundred and forty rods unto a white oak tree marked, from 
thence running south unto the bounds first mentioned. 
James McKeen, James Gregg, David Cargill, John Gofife, 
Samuel Moore, John Coghran, Joseph Simonds, James Alexan- 
der, James McNeal, Committee. Recorded this 18''' September 
1 721. Pr. John Gofke, 

Town Clerk. 



213 







.MAP Ob THE IHREE (lUARTF.R MILE RANCIE. 



WILLET'S noOK OF NIITFIELD. 



215 



I'chruary 11''' 1728-g. It is hereby to be known that the 
Honorable John Wentworth, Ksc]., Lieutenant (lovernor in. and 
over His Majestys Province of New Hampshire, doth resign 
his right and title to the land mentioned in the above record, he 
having the equivalent of said land laid out on the westerly side 
of that land commonly called Leveretts Land, etc. 

J. WeNI WORIl). 

I was present when the 
aforesaid Governor Went- 
worth resigned the above 
land. Attest. 

per JofiN MacMurphy, 
Town Clerk. 

The land received 
by Gov-ernor Went- 
worth instead of this 
farm in the Three 
Quarter Mile Range 
is identified by deeds 
in possession of J. 
Calvin Taylor as part 
of his farm and 
deeded by Governor 
Wentworth to his an- 
cestor (great-grand- 
fa t h c r ) Matthew 
Taylor, in i 732. 

Alexander Mac- 
Murphy, who was 
granted the lot south 
of Governor Went- 
worth, was the great- 
grandfather of Alex- 
ander MacMurphy 
now living in 
Derry at the age of 
eighty-two years. 

No certain infor- 
mation explains the fact that the records show a 
manifest error in the allotment of these farms. 
If the record of the Governor Wentworth land is 
correct, Alexander MacMurphy had possession of a 
homestead prior to Sept. 16, 1721. The records 
of deeds at Exeter, N. H.^ show that James Lig- 
gett sold his half of that homestead laid out to him 
and Alexander MacMurphy in 1722. The second 
division of Squire John MacMurphy, immediately 
south of Alexander MacMurphy, was laid out to 
him in March, 1722-3, and yet the description of 




MRS. BETSY (COUURN) ANNIS. 
Aged 92 ye.irs. 

Sisters residing i:i 



the land shows Alexander MacMurphy to have 
occupied before that date. It is possible that 
Squire John MacMurphy, who was a man of great 
prudence, the first magistrate and town clerk of 
Lf)ndonderry, recognized the fact that no docu- 
ments issued jjrior to the date of the charter could 

be considered legal 
or valid. James Mac- 
Murphy,';^the_son of 
Alexander of the 
Three Quarter Mile 
Range, sold his in- 
terest in the home- 
stead, after his 
father's death, to his 
brother Alexander, 
and bought land of 
David Morrison in 
Eayers Range, where 
his descendants have 
lived ever since. The 
two MacMurphy lots 
are now owned by 
Benjamin Adams, 
and he also owns the 
lots of the Cargills, 
his house being just 
above the original 
inlay of Capt. David 
Cargill's fulling mill. 
The eastern half 
of David Cargill's 
lot was sold to Robert 
Gillmore at an early 
date, and March 25, 
1724, David Cargill 
deeded a lot of sev- 
enty acres to Robert Gillmore for building him a 
fulling mill; the lot was north of William Gill- 
more's farm, hence it is evident the Cargills had 
bought large tracts of land from the original 
proprietors at an early date in addition to many 
grants from the town. The Cargills sold l)olli 
mills and real estate to John MacMurphy in 1732, 
and he disposed of them by his will of 1755. 
James McNeal sold his homestead to James (iill- 
more April 13, 1722, according to the traditions 
and papers of the Gillmore family. 



MRS. SARAH (COUURN) MORRISON, 

Aged 8g years. 
Loiidonderry, iSiy4, 



2l6 



WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



There were peculiar means of identifying the 
Hugh Montgomer)' lands : the farm in the Three 
Quarter Mile Range joined upon the farm in a 
short range southeast of Beaver pond also laid out 
to 1:1 ugh Montgomery. The farm of Hugh 
Montgomery is not shown in this map but its 
location was along the side of the homestead of 
William Thompson. The transcript of William 
Thompson's homestead is not found, but the fol- 
lowing record of Hugh Montgomery's lot will 
serve several important purposes : 



lots in said town. James Gregg, James McKeen, David CargiU. 
John McNeal, Committee. Recorded this 14"' of March, 1723-4. 

Pr. John MacMurphy, 

Town Clerk. 

It is certain that this was the original order 
of this short range from the transcript of the lay- 
ing out of a highway. The highway began at a 
bridge built by Robert Boyes at the outlet of 
Beaver pond : 

Londonderry July 21;"' 1723. Laid out, by the selectmen a 
road or street beaiinnint; at the bridge at the lower end of the 




ELM STREET, MANCHESTER. LOOKING SOUTH. 



Londonderry March 1720. Laid out to Hugh Montgomery 
a lot of land containing sixty acres be it more or less which lot 
is bounded on the west by a white oak tree marked, thence run- 
ning northeast by marked trees and bounding on Robert Morri- 
son's lot to a stake, bounding on John Archibald's lot and 
bounding on said Archibald's lot to Haverhill false line, so 
running north on said line to a stake, and from said stake 
bounding east on James McNeal's lot to a stake, thence running 
forty rods south to a stake, thence running west on Mr. 
McGregor's lot to the aforesaid Haverhill line and bounding 
south on said line to a white oak tree marked thence running 
southwest and bounding on William Thompson's lot to a stake, 
and bounding northwest to the bounds first mentioned ; together 
with an interest in the common or undivided lands equal to other 



pond called Beaver pond and running up through the Ministerial 
and through John McNeal's lot and by marked trees to the 
roatl now fenced through John MacMurphy's lot and through 
Robert Boyce's lot and through Alexander McNeal's lot and 
through Robert Morrison's lot near his house, and running 
through Hugh Montgomery's lot and through William Thomj)- 
son's lot and along through David Cargill's lot to the east of his 
old house where good ground answereth. and so nmning straight 
toward Mr. James McGregor's house, or barn, and so by the 
house to John Richey's house, the said road to be kept and 
continued clear four rods wide, and the timber of said road to 
be reserved foi the use of said road. Samuel Moore, James 
Nichols, Robert Boyes, Selectmen. Recorded this 30"' of 
September 1723. Pr. John MacMurphy, Town Clerk. 



WIL LET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



217 



The positions of some very old houses are 
indicated by the records, and it seems that David 
Cargill owned a house that was considered old the 
next year after the charter was granted to Lon- 
donderry. The deed of John Wheelwright, had it 
been sufhcient to establish a clear title, would have 
included a portion of land that the people of 
Chester secured under a charter that antedated 
the charter of Londonderry, and several farms 
were laid out to the Haverhill line north of 
Stephen Pierce's homestead. The great farm of 
Governor Shute was still farther north, and a 
highway connected it with Haverhill and Boston, 
the centre of power and authority in the Massa- 
chusetts Bay colony. To exhibit the rapid changes 
in ownership of lands in this part of the town and 
allow the reader to see the impossil)ility of con- 
structing a map that will be absolutely free from 
the charge of anachronisms, another record of a 
highway is here given : 

Londonderry February the 18"' 1724-5. Laid out b}' the 
selectmen a straight road beginning at the common land lying 
to the northwest of Governor Shute's lots and running southerly 
across the said lots and through Samuel Rankin's lot to the line 
between Thomas Cochran and James Caldwell the two thirds 
upon James Caldwell's land and the other third upon Thomas 
Cochran's land, and across William Adams's lot straight to 
Patrick Douglass's house and to the lean-to, and turning more 
easterly across Robert Boyes's lot to Governor \\'entworth's 
farm, and so on the said farm to the west end of Alexander 
MacMurphy's field and across his lot, and across fohn MacMur- 
phy's second division and David Cargill's to the brook at the 
Inlay of the Fulling Mill, and as near a south line as ground 
will allow to John Archibald's house, and straight to William 
Gillmore's house, and as straight as good ground will allow to 
Daniel McDufifee's new house, and so to James Adams's house, 
and so as straight to the easterly corner of John Richey's home 
lot as ground will allow and then running partly on the second 
divisions and partly on John Richey's lot as good ground will 
alllow to the corner of John Barr's lot and so running partly on 
John Barr's lot and partly on the second divisions as good 
ground will allow to the line between William Humphrey and 
John Barr's lot, running on said Barr's land as far as the select- 
men have viewed, and then running on said Humphrey's land to 
the road leading to Haverhill, the said road to be two rods wide. 
This by order of James Alexander, William Coghran, John 
Blair, Robert Boyes. Selectmen. Recorded this 27"' of Feb- 
ruary 1724-5. Pr. John MacMurphv, 

Town Clcil;. 

The lot laid out to the Rev. James McGregor 
is now owned by Alexander McMurphy and occu- 



pied by Charles A. Burnham. The homestead 
and second division of one hundred acres laid out 
in one lot to Daniel McDuffee remained many 
years under his management and ownership, and 
the name still lives and is perpetuated in the cus- 
tom of calling some farms by the names of former 
owners. The McDuffee farm is now owned 
and occupied by Albert A. Pressey. Daniel 
McDuffee and Ruth, his wife, lived to a good old 
age, and their bodies lie in the old burying ground 
by the First church. A large horizontal slab 
resting upon four pillars tells the story. From 
the town records one reads: "Hugh McDuffee, 
son of Daniel McDuffee and Ruth his wife, was 
born March 25, 1721," and "John McDuffee, son 
of Daniel McDuffee and Ruth his wife, was born 
September 14th 1723." And thus bv sure steps 
the old places are restored and ix'ophd with the 
shades of the departed. 



n-^OWN ACCOUNTS were rigidly audited in 
* the early days of Nutfield. Scrupulously 
honest as those old Scotch-Irish settlers were, they 
thought it well that all should know where every 
penny went. There had evidently been some 
fault found witli the expenditures in 1729, for at 
the annual town meeting in the following year, 
" Alexander Nichols, James Aiken and John Mor- 
rison were chosen to serve as a committee to the 
end that the town may be made sensible of the 
disbursements of their money." 



THE FIRST FRAME HOUSE was built in 
Nutfield (in the present town of Derry) in 
1728, for Rev. James McGregor. There were two 
stories in front and one in the rear, where the 
kitchen was situated, extending nearly across the 
house, with ample " dressers," and a sink at one 
end and a bedroom at the other. Two large 
rooms were in front, and upstairs were four bed- 
rooms. As late as 1863 this house was occupied 
as a dwelling by its owner, Joseph Morrison. In 
the fall of that year, having retained nearly its 
original form to the last through the vicissitudes 
of 135 years, it was torn down. (See page 71.) 



wiLLErs nooK of nutfield. 



CHARLES WELLS, M. D. was born in 
Westminster, Yt., June 22, 1817. His 
"•randfather. Captain Hezekiah Wells, a native of 
Windsor, Conn., served with distinction in the 
Revolutionary war and died in 181 7. His more 
remote ancestors were Lamson Wells, born in 
1706; Joshua Wells, born in 1672, and Joshua, Sr., 
born in 1647, all natives of Windsor. Dr. Wells 
thus traced his lineage throuoh the best of New 
England ancestry, back to the sturdy Pilgrims. 
Dr. Wells had but one brother. Dr. Horace Wells 
of Hartford, Conn., celebrated as the discoverer 
of ana_'Sthetics. He died in New York Jan. 24, 
1848, at the age of thirtv-three, while engaged in 
the introduction of his discovery into general use 
in surgery, as well as in dentistr}^ in which he 
made its, first application. A beautiful statue has 
been erected to his memory in the public park of 
Hartford. Dr. Charles Wells was educated in the 
public schools of Bellows Falls, Yt., where the family 
resided and where his father died in 1829. After 
academic courses at Walpole, N. H., and Amherst, 
Mass., he began the study of medicine in 1837 with 
Dr. Josiah Graves of Nashua, and was graduated 
from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 
1840, at the age of twenty-one. He began his 
professional career at Chili, N. \'., hut tiic ticld 
of practice proving unsatisfactory, he removed in 
1842 to Manchester, where he continued to reside 
until his death. Never an aggressive practitioner, 
but always content with the share of patronage 
that fell to his lot, he enjoyed in a high degree the 
confidence and respect of his professional brethren. 
Such, however, was his success, and such his rare 
financial skill and judgment, that while still in the 
prime of manhood he was relieved of the burden 
of further professional labor, and was enabled to 
withdraw from active practice and devote the remain- 
ing years of his life to the management of his large 
estate and to those domestic and social enjoy- 
ments which were ever the source of his greatest 
happiness. For more than forty years he was an 
enthusiastic member of Hillsborough Lodge of 
Odd Fellows, being the last survivor of the little 
band who introduced the order in New Hamp- 
shire. He was the recipient of all the honors the 
order could bestow, and was ever a generous con- 
tributor to its benevolent work. Never seeking- 



political honors, although they were frequently 
offered to him, his onlv public service was as a mem- 
ber of the common council in 1847-48, and as an 
alderman in 1848-49. He assisted in making the 
first city report, and the plan suggested and 
matured by him has been in use ever since. He 
was for many years vestryman and treasurer 
of Grace Episcopal church. The ostentatious 
show of wealth was verv distasteful to Dr. Wells. 
Solid worth and merit alone weighed with him, 
and no man was ever quicker to recognize the true 
and the genuine and to denounce shams and hum- 
bugs. As citizen, neighbor, and friend, he filled 
the measure of every expectation, and no resident 
of Manchester ever departed this life more gen- 
erally esteemed or more deeply lamented. Of fine 
physique and of prepossessing appearance, lie was 
gentle, courtlv, dignified, and affable in his de- 
meanor. Dec. 21, 1847, he was married to Miss 
Mary M. Smith, who survives him. Their union, 
though not blessed with children, proved most 
felicitous. His death, of which there had been no 
premonitions, occurred very suddenly of heart 
disease at his home in Manchester, Dec. 28, 1884. 



ONE OF THE OUAINT ENTRIES in the 
parish records of the First church, Nutfield, 
reads as follows, under date of Dec. 6, 1 736 : " Six 
pounds to Mrs. Clark, remainder of salary due the 
Rev. Matthew Clark, deceased, which clears the 
town of his debts from the creation of the wt)vld 
to this dav." The parish evidently did not intend 
to recognize any old unpaid claims which might 
possibly be presented. 



MRS. JANE M. WALLACE, who died in 
Merrimack Nov. 28, 1866, at the age of 
eighty-one years, was the eldest daughter of Rev. 
Dr. William Morrison, who for thirty-five years 
was the minister of the West Parish, Londonderry. 
His death occurred in 18 18. His epitaph says of 
him that he possessed "all the virtues which adorn 
the man and the Christian," and that " as a divine, 
a preacher and a pastor he held acknowledged 
eminence." His sermons were said to be "awfully 
alarming to the wicked." 



FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, DERRY. 



T 



HE First Congregational church in Derry was purpose of taking measures for the organization of 
organized Aug. 3, 1837, and was composed a new church in Derry. They proceeded as 
chiefly of members from the Presbyterian churches follows — chose Deacon Nathaniel Parker chair- 
in East Derry and Londonderry. The formation man, Thomas Carlton, Jr., secretary, Abel F. Hil- 
of the church seems to have been a natural result dreth (see page 26), Nathaniel Aiken, and Benja- 
of the circumstances in which the original min McMurphy a committee to convene a council 
members found themselves at that time. With for the purpose of organizing a new church. 



the increasing pop- 
ulation of the vil- 
lage there arose a 
desire for church 
privileges nearer at 
hand. There is no 
evidence of feud or 
bitterness of feeling 
toward the churches 
in East Derry and 
Londonderry when 
some of their mem- 
bers took steps for 
withdrawing and 
forming the new 
church, and there 
must have been 
much regret at the 
severing of the rela- 
tions. Just why 
they were led to 
prefer the Congre- 
gational forin of 
church government 
to the Presbyterian, 
to which they had 
been accustomed, 
does not appear 
from the records. 
Probably they be- 




FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, DERRV. 



Voted that the 
council meet on the 
third day of August 
next, at two o'clock 
p. m." That coun- 
cil met at Mr. Hil- 
dreth's, with repre- 
sentatives from the 
churches in Derry, 
Londonderry, Ches- 
ter, Hampstead, 
Bedford, and Wind- 
ham, and Rev. Dr. 
J. H. Church. Six- 
ty-seven persons 
presented letters 
from other churches 
and the new society 
was organized with 
public services on 
the afternoon of 
that day. Oct. 4, 
1837, Rev. Pliny B. 
Dav was installed 
as first pastor of 
the church, and 
continued in that 
office until 1851. 
He was succeeded 



by Rev. E. G. Par- 

lieved this form would be better adapted to them, sons, who was dismissed in 1869, after a pastorate 
and that it promised more rapid progress and of eighteen years (sec page 25). Rev. R. W. 
larger results to the cause of evangelical religion Haskins, the third minister, was installed in 1872, 
in this place. Everything seems to have been and dismissed Jan. i, 1879. The next pastorate, 
done in an orderlv wa\', and according to estab- that of Rev. D. W. Richardson, began in 1880 
lished ecclesiastical usage, as appears from the first and closed in 1S85. Rev. H. B. Putnam, the 
words of the church records, as follows: "July 8, present pastor, was installed in October, 1885. 
1837, several gentlemen from the Presbyterian The church has been frequently strengthened by 
churches of Derry and Londonderry met for the revivals of religion. 
198. 219 



220 



WILLBT'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



JOHN LYFORD BEAN was born in Brcnt- 
<J wood Aug. 26, 1807, and was the son of 
Loami Bean, whose father, James, was the son of 
the Scotch emigrant, John Bean, who settled in 
Exeter in 1660. John Lyford Bean was the 
youngest of twelve children, seven sons and five 
daughters. He was married Sept. 21, 1823, to 
Mary Evans, daughter of Thomas and Deborah 
(Hall) Evans of Strafford. They lived in Exeter 
until 1846, when they moved to Derry, where they 
resided until death. Mrs. 
Bean died May 10, 1870, , 
and Mr. Bean's death { 
occurred Dec. 16, 1S87. 
They had four sons and 1 
seven daughters : Mary i 
Olivia, born Dec. 30, j 
1826, died July 2, 1861 ; ;/■ 

Abram, born Feb. 14, 
1828; Catherine, born 
Aug. 16, 1829, died Sept. 
II, 1853; Cordelia, born 
Aug. 12, 1831, died Sept. 
16, 1833; Cordelia, born 
April 13, 1834, died July 
13, 1879; Emily Joseph- 
ine, born March 12, 
1836; Mehitable Sylvia, 
born Mav 2, 1840, died 
Jan. 8, 1870; John Smith, 
born July 14, 1838, died 
July 28, 1863 ; Joseph 
Warren, born Aug. 28, 
1842 ; James Franklin, 
born March 28, 1844; 
Hannah Rosina, born 

Nov. 14, 1846, died Oct. 3, 1868. All were born 
in Exeter or Brentwood. Mr. Bean was a cooper 
by trade, but after removing to Derry he devoted 
himself to farming. He was honest and success- 
ful in business, and was a staunch Democrat, 
never failing to cast his vote when oppnrtunitv 
offered. 

Joseph Warren Bean, third son of John 
Lyford Bean, was born in Pequakett village, 
Exeter. He moved with his parents to Derry, 
where he has since lived, with the exception of 
seven years in Methuen, Mass., where he attended 




school, returning to Derry at the age of 13. He 
was a student at Pinkerton Academy for two 
terms, and he taught the district schools in town 
for eleven winters, becoming so popular that no 
prudential committee could be chosen until it was 
pledged to hire him. He was married, Sept. 22, 
1867, to Jeannette A., daughter of Clinton and 
Delight (Lewis) Bradford of Washington, N. H. 
They made their home in Derry, having purchased 
the farm formerly occupied by Deacon Henry 

Taylor, in the eastern 
part of the town. Two 
children have been 
added to the family: 
Mabel Ninette, born 
June 4, 1868, and Emily 
, Josephine, born Jan. 11, 

'^:;: 1883. Mr. Bean moved 

to Derry Depot in 1880, 
and has since lived there. 
He opened a store in 
Odd Fellows' block in 
1884 for the sale of 
boots and shoes, after- 
ward introducing a gen- 
eral variety of kitchen 
utensils, crockciy, glass- 
w are, etc. He w a s 
elected to the legislature 
in 1887 by a majority of 
twelve, being the first 
Democrat chosen in 
Derrv to that office for 
thirty-five years. His 
colleague, a Republican, 
received the normal 
Republican majority of fifty votes. Mr. Bean was 
a member of the school board in 1893 and 1894, 
and it was largely through his efforts that the town 
built the fine new schoolhouse at the Depot. He 
has latelv returned to his old calling, and is again 
teaching school in what he calls his schoolhouse, 
happv among the children, whose faithful friend 
he is. Mr. Bean is a member of St. Luke's M. E. 
church, of Echo Lodge of Odd Fellows, and of 
several other secret societies, and is a faithful 
worker in each. (See portrait and cut of residence 
of J. W. Bean, page 125.) 



JOHN LYFORD BEAN. 



EARLY SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS. 

THE Nutfield colony rapidly pushed forward In that year the town was moved to favor the 

in clearing away the forests around the spots cause of education by a resolution to huild a 

chosen for building log cabins for residences and schoolhouse eighteen feet long, clear of the space 

shelters for cattle. Private roads were temporarily allowed lor the chunneys at one end, where two 

laid out and recorded for the communications of fireplaces were to be made as large as the house 

the families. With the demarcation of homestead would allow. The wages of a schoolmaster at this 

allotments and the definite arrangement and loca- time were thirty-six pounds for the year, a salary 

tion of proprietors, concerted action in reference perhaps not out of proportion with wages in other 

to privileges obtained, and after the early resolu- occupations. March 25, 1732, the town came to 

tion to erect a meeting-house in the centre of the aid of education in a vote to pay the wages of 

population had matured and passed into established two schools at the public charge, 

materialization in the First church, so called at In searching for the location of these schools 

this day, the inhabitants next turned their atten- maintained at the public expense, it is instructive 

tion to the duty of providing a regular means of to note that both were in the same neighborhood, 

education for their large households of numerous not far from the First church. There were private 

children. In the unsettled and provisional state schools in other parts of the town, under the 

of the colony of Nutfield, without guaranty for instruction of young men who afterward became 

the possession of the lands on which thev had famous. The West Parish was struggling into 

settled, the education of children had been very existence in an unrecognized capacity, temporarily 

meagre and confined to the ability of the individual building both churches and schools as the centre 

heads of families to engage the services of a tutor of population moved faj-ther away. The Aikens 

or governess. But in the struggles of three years Range, the Eayers Range, and the High Range 

from the time of settlement in 17 19, fortune became jiowerful inllucnces in establishing other 

favored the colony in the obtaining of a good rallying points and eventually led to the districting 

and valid charter from Great Britain, and in of the town and the apportionment of a general 

assuretl possession the inhabitants, having been school tax to the maintenance of a number of 

called together, and dulv organized in a town schools. 

meeting Jan. 20, 1723, voted for the erection of a Rev. James MacGregor was an experienced 

schoolhouse in the town ; the building to be con- school teaciier, and before the wages of his 

structed of logs, the length to be sixteen feet, and parochial services were adequate to the support of 

the breadth twelve feet, and the side walls to be his family lie was accustomed to supplement these 

seven feet in height. In the town there had been with receipts obtained from teaching. His son, 

several persons of moderate scholastic attainments Rev. David MacGregor, was also a noted teacher 

who had gathered children at their houses for and pastor in this town. In both private and 

instruction and received remuneration by subscrip- public capacity these early teachers deserve such 

tion, but the poorer families not being able to pay memoi-iali/ation in history as shall preserve their 

anything, it was deemed expecHent to make a names in honor. Robert Morrison, Eleanor 

general provision for the education of all classes. Aiken, John Barnett, William Harvey, and Archi- 

At a general town meeting held at Londonderry bald Wier had served as teachers as early as 1725. 

March 6, 1726, the town voted to maintain Only ten years later the list of teachers whose 

but one school at the public charge for the en- names iiave been jireserved was increased bv tiu' 

suing year. The provincial statutes required that following: John Wilson, William Wallace, Ezekiel 

every fifty householders must be provided with a Steele, Thomas Boyes, Francis Bryan, Morton 

schoolmaster to instruct the youth in reading and Goodall, Matthew Campbell, Thomas Bacon, Wil- 

writing, and every community of a hundred house- liam McNeil, and John Eayres were teachers in 

holds must be furnished with a grammar school, this town in the year 1736. In the next year were 



WILLErS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



added the names of Daniel Todd and Marv McNeil. 
For more than half a century the town of 
Londonderry had no established school of higher 
grade than the common or grammar school, but 
during this time the higher education was not 
neglected. There were many young men who had 
ambition and talent, and obtained by private 
instruction such knowledge of Greek and Latin 
as enabled them to enter colleges and prosecuting 
their curriculum to graduate with honors. As the 
number of college graduates increased in town, 



towns. Londonderry must have higher grades. 
The town was not ready to act as a unit, and 
influential men moved among the people to obtain 
subscriptions for maintaining a high school. The 
common by the First church was the location of 
the first high school building. It was supposed 
that other adjoining towns would send pupils to 
assist in defraying a part of the expenses of main- 
taining a classical high school under a competent 
college graduate. Professor L. S. Moor was one 
of the first teachers. He afterward became an 




MCGREGOR BRIDGE, MANCHESTER. 



the sentiment grew that a fitting school was a 
necessity. Yearly demands for education at home 
were made until in the latter part of the century, 
very soon after the close of the Revolutionary 
war, there was an immense impulse given to every 
industry, credit revived, and private fitting schools, 
or schools of a grade to make both young men 
and young women proficient in manv specialties 
hitherto not taught in the town schools, were 
advocated. The young women began to wish for 
better advantages and went to academies in other 



instructor at Dartmouth and later assumed the 
presidency of Williams and Amherst colleges. 
Several teachers succeeded for short periods, until 
Professor Samuel Burnham, a man of collegiate 
attainments and some executive ability, took the 
management of the school and for nearly a quarter 
of a century maintained financially and education- 
ally a very successful classical institution. The 
year 1814 saw the establishment of Pinkcrton 
Academy, a history of which is given elsewhere in 
the present work. 



HON. JACOB FRANKLIN JAMES. 



HON. JACOB F. JAMES was born in Deer- followed with enthusiasm. Mr. James took an 

field July 9, 1817, son of Moses and Martha active part in the early political history of the city. 

(Young) James, being one of a family of eight In 1845 the Whig party elected him as a repre- 

children. When he was very young his family sentative to the legislature, and re-elected him the 

removed to Candia, where his boyhood was spent following year. In the spring of 1847 he was 

in farming and in improving such necessary educa- chosen mayor, serving continuously until 1849, and 



tional advantages as 
the district school 
afforded. When 
fourteen years of age 
he went to Lowell, 
Mass., and became 
an operative in one 
of the carding-rooms 
of the Lowell Manu- 
facturing Company. 
After four years of 
this emplovment, 
aided by the savings 
he had accumulated, 
he entered the Old 
Baptist Seminary at 
New Hampton, 
where he studied for 
two years. In April, 
1837, he returned to 
Lowell and was made 
overseer of the card- 
room in which he 
had formerly worked, 
holding the position 
for three years, when 
he resigned to enter 
the employ of the 
Massachusetts Cor- 
poration of Lowell 

as superintendent of carding. In February, 1842, borough county, being elected in 1864 and re- 
he accepted an invitation to come to Manchester elected in 1867. He was one of the trustees of 
and take charge of two carding-rooms in No. 1 the Amoskeag Savings bank, and a member of 
mill, Stark Corporation, antl in less than two years the city committee having the public cemeteries 
his abilities were such that he was made superin- in charge from 1867 until his death, and gave 
tendent of the whole svstem of carding in that cor- much attention to their care. In 1840 Mr. James 
poration, and retained this position until he fol- married Harriet, daughter of Charles Priest of 
lowed the natural bent of his mind by devoting Lancaster, Mass., who is still living, but none of 
himself to making surveys and conveyances, this the three children now survive. He became a 
being a part of his studies at school which he had member of Hillsborough Lodge, 1. O. O. F., on 
M 223 




HON. JACOB F. J.'XMES. 



was again elected in 
i856,servingto 1858. 
In 1877, on the res- 
ignation of Mayor 
Ira Cross, he was 
elected by the city 
councils to fill the 
vacancy, but declined 
the proffered honor. 
He was chief en- 
gineer of Manches- 
ter fire department 
in 1 85 1 and 1855, 
and as long as his life 
lasted his interest in 
the firemen never 
ceased. In 1862 he 
served as second 
member of the com- 
mittee having charge 
of the ct)nstruction 
of the high school 
building, and devoted 
a great deal of time 
to the superintend- 
ence of the work. 
For six vears he was 
a member of the 
board of countv com- 
missioners for Hills- 



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WILLErS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



January 8, 1844, and passed the chairs in 1847. 
In 1844 he was initiated in Wonolanset encamp- 
ment and passed the usual chairs in 1856. He 
was made a member of the Grand Lodge of Odd 
Fellows in 1859. His death occurred April 15, 
1892. Mr. James was an ideal type of an honest 
man and enjoyed in a remarkable degree the 
confidence of the people. 



PLEASANT VIEW CEMETERY.— This 
cemetery, situated upon the west side of 
the Mammoth road in North Londonderry, has 
been in use but a few years. There repose, 
however, the remains of some departed citizens of 
earlier years that have been removed from older 
yards, notably those that have been taken from the 
Baptist Cemetery. The following is an alphabeti- 
cal arrangement of the inscriptions to be found in 
Pleasant View Cemetery at the present time : 

Adams, George (son of Nathan and Elizabeth J. Adams) 
died Aug 31, 1874, aged 22 )ts 8 mos ; Gertrude (dau of Nathan 
and Ehzabeth J. Adams) died Nov 19, 1883, aged 13 yrs 10 mos: 
Rowena (dau of Frank and Ahna E. Adams) died Aug 15, 1881, 
aged 4 mos 13 dys. 

Austin, Joshua born Oct 17, 1800, died May 27, 1861. 

Barker, Samuel C. born Oct 15, 1812, died Aug 16, 1893 ; 
Hannah D. (wife) born March 27, 181 8. 

Blodgett, Isaac died Jan 11, 1858, aged 50 yrs 7 mos 
16 dys; Celestia A. (dau of Isaac and Bethiah Blodgett) died 
Oct 14, 1863, aged 13 yrs 11 mos ; Isaac Joshua (son of same) 
died April 6, 1854, aged 2 dys. 

BoYCE, Ladd born Sept 21. 1835, died Aug 2, 1883. 

BoYDEN, Joseph, Co F 29 Reg Mass Vols, died July 7, 
1893, aged 66 yrs. 

Barker, Affie and Effie (twin daughters of David C. and 
Eliza J. Barker) died Sept 21, i860, aged 3 mos. 

Chase, Elijah G. born March 22, 181 9, died April 19, 
1893 : Phebe M. (wife) born July 20, 1822 ; Nathan P. born 
June 13, 1812, died Oct 5, 1893 : Mary P. Whidden (wife) born 
Sept I, 1820 ; Trueworthy D. born Sept 11. 1828, died Feb 24, 
1872 ; Nancy M. Pettingill (wife) born July 6, 1832, died Sept 6, 
1892 ; Frank E. born Nov. 21, 1862, died Feb 21, 1884 ; John H. 
born May 29, 1864, died Aug 29, 1864: child, Dec 30, 1866; 
child, Jan 3. 1868 ; Hannah died March 30, 1890, aged 56 yrs 
1 1 mos. 

Corning, Mary (dau of WiUiam and Hannah Corning) 
died Jan 23, 1879, aged 17 yrs 5 mos; Nathaniel born July 17, 
1804, died Aug 14, 1869 ; Mary McMurphy (wife) born April 4, 
1808, died April i, 1893; George W. (son of Nathaniel and 
Mary M. Corning) born Aug 21, 1843, died Sept 5, 1844; 
Nathaniel, Jr. born Feb 9, 1839, died June 9, 1878 ; Alexander M. 



(son of same) born April 25. 1833, died Dec 12, 1893 : Anna J. 
(dau of Alexander M. and Roxana Corning) ; Almira N. (dau of 
same). 

Farrei.l, Potter died Oct 11, 1890, aged 60 yrs 8 mos. 

Fi.iNG, John W., stone; Mary A. (wife) born Feb 16, 1837, 
died June 10. 1890 : infant (son) born March 17, 1869, died 
April 5, 1869. 

Frost, Edgar, (no date). 

Furber, J. S.. 1819-1891: Elbridge W.. 1S63-1881: 
John W., 1846 -1885. 

Greeley, George W. died Aug 3, 1888, aged 67 yrs to 
mos ; S. Arvilla died Jan 3, 1882, aged 31 )ts 8 mos. 

GuTTERSON, Eli S. born July 19, 1818, died May 19, 1863. 

Hall, Robert and Henry R., monument ; Nancy E. (wife 
of Robert Hall) born March 30, 1819, died Feb 16, 1868; 
Ella M. (wife of Henry R. Hall) born Jan 23, 1856, died July 18, 

1890 ; Elsie L. (dau of Henry R. and Ella M. Hall) born Feb 
18. 1887, died June 7, 1889. On same monument. 

Hale, Etta M. (wife of Samuel C. Hale) born Dec 6, 1851, 
died Aug 22, 1891. 

Kimball, Isaac born April 10, 1S21, died March 10, 1890; 
Rebecca J. (wife) born Dec 24, 1S32, died March 3, 1892. 

McGregor, George F. born Jan 9, 1841, died Jan 20, 

1891 : Rhoda A. (wife) born Aug 16, 1842 : Augusta M. (wife of 
Wm R. McGregor), 1S60 - 1889 ; Grade, 1887 - 1894. 

Nesmith, Jonathan Y. and Lucian H., stone : Oreal (son 
of J. Y. and A. A. Nesmith), 1859 -1863; Cyrus, iSoi-iSSi; 
Lydiah (wife), 1 807 - 1 S76 : Luzetah J. (dau of Cyrus and Lydiah), 
1841-1842; Capt Thomas, 1791-1861 ; Nancy B. (wife), 1795- 
1S80. 

NoRCROSS, Joshua L. died Sept i, 1862, aged 34 yrs 4 mos; 
George N. died July i, 1861, aged 3 yrs 1 1 mos. 

NoYES, Freddie (son of J. M. and A. P. Noyes) died Sept 
29, 1876, aged 2 yrs 1 1 mos 20 dys ; Eva F. (dau of the same) 
died Jan 4, 7889, aged 9 mos 7 dys : Mary (wife of Joseph T. 
Noyes) died March, 1885, aged 47 yrs 3 mos 20 dys : Sylvester 
C. (son of Benning and Mary B.) died May 21, 1856, aged 
12 yrs 7 mos : Ella L. (dau of same) died Nov. 11, 1869, aged 
1 2 yrs 5 mos. 

Page, Leonard died June 15, 1886, aged 67 yrs 12 dys. 

Smith, Nathan S., stone: Lizzie A. Choate (wife) died Jan 
15. 1S90, aged 50 yrs 4 mos 2 dys : Elisha died May 26, 1887, 
aged 86 yrs 4 mos 9 dys: Rachel Sanborn 'wife) died March 28, 
1893. aged S3 yrs 23 dys. 

Whidden, John P. (son of J. ^V^ and E. R. Whidden) died 
March 14, 1884, aged 5 dys ; Ellen Maria (dau of John P. and 
Alice) died Dec 3, 1857, aged 5 dys. 

Whitcomb, Harriet C. (wife of H. B. Corliss) born Dec 1 7, 
1826, died Feb 11, 1892. 

White, Reuben died March 31, 1858, aged 63 yTS : Rachel 
Corning (wife) died March 25, 1885. aged 83 yrs 5 mos : Ruel B. 
(son) died Sept 23. 1883, aged 41 )ts i mo 22 dys; Samuel G. 
(son) died Dec i, 1892, aged 67 yrs; Nelson (son) died May 24, 
1851, aged 17 yrs 5 mos: Elisa A. (dau) died Nov 11, 1S38, 
aged I )T 5 mos. 

Willey, Jacob N. born Feb. 1804, died Jan 29, 1867 : 
Rachel T. (wife) born May 18, 1822, died Aug 31, i386, 



SAMUEL CALDWELL FORSAITH, 



SAMUEL C. FORSAITH was born in Goffs- 
town, Sept. 29, 1827, the son of Robert and 
Elizabeth (Caldwell) Forsaith. His father beincj a 
farmer, he spent his early life upon a farm, 
receivino: his education in the common schools of 
his native town. When a mere boy he manifested 
a remarkable aptitude for mechanical work, and at 
the age of eleven years had constructed and set up 
a miniature sawmill, 
complete in all its parts, 
and in running order. 
At the age of seven- 
teen he came to Man- 
chester and entered the 
Amoskeag m a c h i n e 
shop as an apprentice. 
There he remained 
until thrown out of 
employment by a de- 
structive fire, which led 
him to seek a situation 
in the Stark mills 
machine shop, where 
he continued until Sept. 
I, 1850. He then 
removed to Milford, 
where for eight 3ears 
he had charge of the 
repair shop connected 
with the mills in that 
town. He left Milford 
to assume charge of 
the Saco Water Power 
machine shop at Bid- 
deford. Me., holding 

this position for two years. In i860 he returned 
to Manchester and went into business on his own 
account, beginning in a room which he rented m 
the shop of the Manchester scale works, his 
announcement to the public being that he was 
prepared to do all kinds of job work, and thus the 
present and extensive plant operated by the 
S. C. Forsaith Machine Company had its early 
beginning. 

Mr. Forsaith's success was such that at the 
end of the first year he was employing four assis- 




SAMUEL C. FORSAITH. 



tants and was obliged to enlarge his workshop. 
At this time he purchased a patent machine for 
folding newspapers, which was so defective that it 
was of little practical value. Here was an oppor- 
tunity for the display of his rare genius as a 
mechanic, and he at once applied himself to the 
perfecting of this machine with such success that 
he eventually received large orders to supply news- 
paper establishments 
throughout the country 
with his improved 
folder. While manu- 
facturing these folders 
he was also building 
sawmills, mill sfcarings, 
water-wheels, etc., and 
the number of his em- 
ployees increased from 
four to twelve. In i S63 
he leased the entire 
scale works plant, and in 
1867 built a new shop 
which proved to be the 
nucleus of the set of 
buildings now owned 
by the company which 
bears his name. In 
I S72, William E. Drew, 
a former employee in 
the shop, was taken 
into partnership, and 
the business continued 
to grow until iSS_|, 
when the ownership 
was merged into a 
stock company with a capitalization of $275,000. 
In the winter of 1884-85, while Mr. Forsaith was 
on a trip to the Bermuda Islands and the 
southern states, he was stricken with apoplexy and 
died at Philadelphia, March 23, 1885. 

Mr. Forsaith will long be remembered as a 
pioneer in the machine business in Manchester, 
his genius as a machinist, indomitable perseverance, 
and great energy overcoming the most unfavor- 
able "conditions. He was one of the most com- 
panionable of men, was prominent in Masonry and 



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Odd Fellowship, and was an officer in the Amos- 
keag Veterans. In politics he was a Democrat, 
and on several occasions received the enthusiastic 
support of his party as a candidate for the New 
Hampshire state senate. Feb. 20, 1848, he mar- 
ried Nancy \V. Pierce, who died April 20, 1871. 
These children were born to them : Frank P., 
George B., and William, the first named now de- 
ceased. Dec. 23, 1875, he married Clara J., daugh- 
ter of Col. J. C. Smith of Salisbury, her mother 
being Clara Johnson. The issue of their marriage 
was three children: Samuel C, Jr., born Dec. 16, 
1876; Clarence S., born Feb. 19, 1879; and Dar- 
win J., born Oct. 19, 1880. 



ON HOLLAND'S MAP of New Hampshire, 
published in London in i 784, the only house 
indicated in the old town of Londonderry is 
Samuel Thompson's. He was a Revolutionary 
soldier who enlisted in the first company that went 
from NulficKI, immediately after the battle of 



Lexington. The Thompson homestead was in 
the possession of Charles Hurd in 1865. In the 
town of Merrimack the only residence noted on 
the map is that of Edward Goldstone Lutwyche, 
an English gentleman of education and fortune 
who left the country on the breaking out of the 
Revolution. Rev. Edward Lutwyche Parker, for 
forty years pastor of the First church in Derry, 
was named for him. 



RAISING THE FIRST CHURCH.— It must 
have been a royal time which the old 
worthies had at the raising of the First church in 
Nutfield in i 769, when a new meeting-house was 
built, for the records state that the parish voted 
"that the Committv buy four hundred weaight of 
Cheas, and two thousand Bisket, and three Barl of 
Rum & five Barl of Syder for the meeting hous 
raising." Curiously enough, the erection of the 
house of worship was immediately followed by a 
season of sireat relioious awakening. 




LOWELL STREET, MANCHESTER. — 1 885. 



WILLETS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



121 



REV. O. G. TINGLOF, pastor of the Swedish 
Evangelical Mission church, Manchester, 
was born in Sweden in 1856. His parents were 
in humhle circumstances, and although they were 




REV. O. G. TINGLOF. 



not professing Christians they taught their son to 
respect the established religion of the country. 
After becoming acquainted with the religious 
movement outside the state church of Sweden, Mr. 
Tinglof was converted to active Christianity in 1874. 
He ascribes his further enlightenment in religious 
matters to a book entitled, " The Lord is Right," 
published the following year, and written by Rev. 
P. Waldenstrom, D. D., a member of parliament. 
Some years after his conversion, Mr. Tinglof began 
to take part in Christian work. Coming to 
America in 1882, he settled in Boston, where he 
worked in a machine shop, and preached the 
gospel to his compatriots on Sundays. In 1888 
he returned to Sweden and took a two years' 
course at Christinehamn in a college supported by 
the Swedish Evangelical Covenant. In the spring 
of 1890, while still in college, he accepted a call 
from the American Congregational Home Mis- 
sionary Society in Massachusetts to engage in 



missionary work among the Swedes in that state, 
and began the work in August of that year. In 
the spring of 1892 he was called to Manchester by 
the Swedish Evangelical Mission church. This 
church was organized Dec. 9, 1889, with twenty- 
five members, its church polity and creed being 
similar to that of the Congregational l)odv in the 
United States. From the start it was partly sup- 
ported by the Congregational Home Missionary 
Society of New Hampshire, but in 1892 it became 
self-supporting, and its work has been prospering 
and its numbers increasing until now thr member- 
ship is 115. The First Congregational church 
opened its chapel for the first services of the little 
congregation, but as it was necessary to have a 
place of worship where several meetings could be 
conducted during the week, a room was hired for 
that purpose in the City Mission chapel, and 
the meetings are still held there. Since 1893 the 
church has been working hard to erect a house of 
worship of its own, and for that purpose a lot of 
land on Orange street was purchased in the spring 
of 1893. Iri the early part of 1895 this land was 
sold, and another lot, situated on the northwest 
corner of Pine and Orange streets, was bought for 




PROPOSED SWEDISH MISSION CHURCH. 

$4,100. The society intends to build a churcii 
there the i)rcsent year, and the people of Manches- 
ter are generously aiding with their contributions. 
The first pastor of the society was Rev. P. E. 
Dillner, who came to Manchester in 1889 and 
organized the church. 



HON. ALFRED G. FAIRBANKS. 



HON. ALFRED G. FAIRBANKS was born 
in Francestown. Jan. i6, 1822, and is the son 
of Deacon Bucknam and Cynthia (Downs) Fair- 
banl<;s. He was educated in the common schools 
and academy of his native town. His earliest 
work was performed on his fatiier's farm, where he 
laid the foundation 
of a strong and vig- 
orous manhood. He 
came to Manchester 
in 1843, and began 
his independent 
career as a black- 
smith in the employ 
of the Amoskeag 
Corporation. He had 
learned the trade in 
his native town. In 
1857 he went into 
trade for himself, and 
after several years of 
success purchased a 
farm in what was 
then called 'Squog, 
on the Mast road 
toward Goffstown, 
and lived there about 
seven years, engaging 
in various mercantile 
pursuits meanwhile. 
Hillsborough county 
built a new jail at 
Manchester in 1862- 
63 and Mr. Fairbanks 
was appointed 
deputy sheriff and 

jailer in 1864. This position he held nearly ten 
years, until New Hampshire chose a Democratic 
governor and other political affiliations were 
wanted. General business engaged his attention 
for several years, and finally he formed the partner- 
ship with F. L. Wallace, mentioned elsewhere. 
In every position Mr. Fairbanks has made warm 
friends and always held the highest respect and 
esteem of his fellow-townsmen, among whom he 
has been a prominent factor for advancement. 




Mr. Fairbanks has always taken a lively interest in 
the politics of the city and state, being first a 
Whig and later an ardent Republican, and filled 
various official positions with honor to himself and 
advantage to the community. In 1881-82 he 
represented ward 4 in the state legislature, and 

was one of the com- 
missioners of Hills- 
borough county for 
a period of six years 
beginning in 1883, 
being chairman of 
the board two of 
those years. He was 
a member of the state 
senate in 1892-93 
from the seventeenth 
district, serving 
on the commit- 
tees on finance, state 
prison, insane asylum, 
and soldiers' home. 
It has been grace- 
fully written of him 
in this connection: 

Senator Fairbanks, 
though one of the oldest 
members of the senate, is 
one of the most vigorous. 
His long experience in 
public affairs enables him 
to secure a prominent 
position in the proceed- 
ings of the senate. As a 
conscientious and faithful 
legislator, Senator Fair- 
banks stands pre-eminent. 
His voice is seldom heard in debate, but is never heard without 
respect and influence. Constant in his attentions upon his 
public duties, he wins the esteem of his constituents, and faithful 
in his guardianship of their interests, he adds to his reputation 
for integrity. In the city of Manchester, where Senator Fair- 
banks has resided for nearly fifty years, he is justly regarded as 
one of her leading citizens in all good works. His charity is 
unostentatious, yet liberal ; his friendship not boastful, but cordial. 
Thrown constantly into association with all classes of society 
by reason of his business duties. Senator Fairbanks has 
developed the most sterling qualities of manhood, sympathy, 
and tact. 



HON. ALFRED G. FAIRBANKS. 



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Mr. Fairbanks was married to Harriet A. 
Dodije of Francestown in 1844, and to them three 
children have been born : Henry B.. a prominent 
business man in Manchester; Ellen Cynthia, who 
lives at home ; and Anna Frances, some years ago 
deceased. Mrs. Fairbanks died in August, 1S91, 
at the family home on Wilson hill, where Mr. 
Fairbanks was one of the pioneer settlers twenty- 
one years ago. He is a member of the Amoskeag 
Veterans and was quartermaster fifteen years. He 
is also a member of the Franklin-Street Congrega- 
tional church, joining soon after its organization 
in 1844. 



A DAMS FEMALE ACADEMY.— Although 
^»- this institution no lona^er exists, havino- been 
merged into the public school system of Derry in 
1887, during its life of nearly two thirds of a cen- 
tury it was one of the chief educational centres of 
New England. Being the first incorporated 
female academy in the state, and among the first 
in the country in which a regular course of studies 
was prescribed, the school may justly be called a 
pioneer in the cause of woman's education in 
America. There had been a female department 
in Pinkerton Academy, but the trustees deemed it 
expedient to separate the boys from the girls, and 
a female seminary was opened in the building 
originally erected for an academy. Jacob Adams, 
who died in 1823, bequeathed about four thousand 
dollars of his property to endow a female academy, 
" to be located within one hundred rods of the 
East Parish meeting-house, in Londonderry." 
The school was accordingly established, and in 
April, 1824, went into operation under the charge 
of Miss Z. P. Grant, who had been a pupil, and 
was then an assistant, in the seminarv of Rev. 
Joseph Emerson. She was aided by Miss Mary 
Lyon, who subsequently became distinguished as a 
teacher at Mt. Holyoke Seminary in carrying 
out the plan of female education originally adopted 
at Adams. Under the superintendence and 
instruction of Miss Grant and Miss Lvon, the 
academy soon attained a high reputation and 
attracted pupils from all parts of New England, 
the attendance reaching one hundred. In 1827 
circumstances led the two teachers to sever their 
connection with the school and open an academy 



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for young ladies at Ipswich, Mass. They were 
succeeded by Charles C. P. Gale of Exeter, a 
graduate of Yale, who remained principal for ten 
years. One of Mr. Gale's pupils has paid this 
tribute to his character: "He was a magnetic 
man, full of candor, hope, and all high ideals. He 
attracted everybody towards him, made lasting 
and loving friendships, and rarely failed to create 
among his pupils strong personal loyalty and affec- 
tion. Our lessons in Paley's Theology and Evi- 
dences were often only texts for eloquent and 
suggestive lectures, quickening and kindling our 
thoughts, so that when we left his presence we 
were glowing with a new life." On Mr. Gale's 
resignation, John Kelly of Atkinson was appointed 
principal, and remained in charge three years, 
being succeeded by Miss Laura W. Dwight, who 
also remained three years. Edward L. Parker, the 
next principal, resigned in 1848, after a four years' 
service, and during the next twelve years the 
academy had nine different principals, as follows : 
Rev. Eli T. Rowe, Henry S. Parker, Miss Abby 
T. Wells, Nathaniel E. Gage, Miss E. C. Rubies, 
Nathaniel J. Marshall, Miss Jennie M. Bartlett, 
Miss Mary A. Hoyt, and Benjamin F. Warner. 
In i860 the trustees were fortunate in securing 
the services of Miss Emma L. Taylor of Derry, 
youngest sister of Dr. Samuel N. Taylor of Phillips 
Andover Academy. Under her management the 
school prospered greatly, and the course of study 
was much extended. She remained in charge 
many years, her assistants at different times being 
Miss Mary F. Rowly, Miss Mary E. Burnham, 
Miss Elizabeth Train, and Mrs. William Crawford. 

The fiftieth anniversary of the academv was 
celebrated July i, 1873, the occasion bringing to 
Derry the alumnaj from many states of the Union. 
A very interesting feature of the event was the 
presence of Mrs. Bannister of Newburyport, the 
first teacher of the school. She was in her eighty- 
second year, and had not visited the school since 
leaving Derry, forty-seven vears previously. There 
were addresses by Rew Mr. Parker, Rev. Dr. 
Dcrincr, Mr. Edward L. Parker, and at the colla- 
tion which followed in the town hall speeches 
were made by Rev. Dr. Wellman, Hon. E. H. 
Derby, Dr. Hooker of Boston, and several others. 

In the list of graduates or former pupils of 



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the school are the names of the first wife of Ralph 
Waldo Emerson, the two sisters of N. P. Willis, 
the poet, one of whom became widely known as 
"Fanny Fern," the Penhallows and Salters of 
Portsmouth, the Cilleys of Nottingham, the 
Derbys of Boston, the Bells, Aikens, Frenches, 
and Richardsons of Chester, the Tuckers, Thorns, 
Taylors, Greggs, MacGregors, Farrars, Dows, 
Parkers, Prentices, Pattens, Adamses, Choates, 
and Eastmans of Derry and Londonderry. Miss 
Lucinda J. Gregg, a graduate of the school, read 
the poem on the occasion of the celebration of the 
fiftieth anniversary. 

With such a long and honorable record of use- 
fulness, the academy, to the great regret of its 
friends, closed its separate existence in 1886. 
During the last few years the attendance had been 
very small, owing to various causes, and the 
trustees felt that the purpose for which the institu- 
tion was founded could be better carried out by its 
union with the common school system of the 
town. Steps were accordingly taken to bring this 
about, and in October, 1887, the General Court 
approved the "Act to Establish the Adams School 
District in Derry." After defining the boundaries 
of the district and specifying its officers, the act 
provides that : 

The duties of the president shall be to jjreside at all meet- 
ings of the district, of the clerk to keep all records of the dis- 
trict, and of the joint board and of the treasurer to receive any 
money paid by the trustees of the will of Jacob Adams, late of 
Derry, deceased, or any other money jiroperly paid to him for 
school purposes. 

The authority of the town under the laws of 1885, chap- 
ter 43, as to assessing and collecting ta.xes in said Adams School 
District and appro])riating the same for school purposes shall 
continue as if this act had not passed. When it shall be decided 
by the courts of this state, upon application made, that the real 
estate and the income of the personal property, now in the 
hands of the aforesaid trustees, can be used and appropriated by 
said trustees for educational purposes in connection with the 
district school in the said Adams School District, then the said 
president, clerk, and treasurer shall constitute a joint board to 
act with the town school board in selecting a teacher and fi.xing 
the compensation, and it shall then be the duty of the board of 
education of said town to contract with said trustees and pay a 
reasonable rent for the use of the school building now held by 
said trustees, with the assent of said joint district board, and 
any scholars from other parts of the town district may attend 
the school in said .Adams School District free of tuition with the 
consent of the town board. 



Such sum as shall be paid for rent, together with the income 
of any fund in the hands of said trustees, shall be appropriated 
as nearly as may be for the education of females, together with 
all school children of said district, and for increasing the 
efficiency of the district school at a location according to the 
will of said Adams. 



JOHN MOORE seems to have given the early 
settlers of Nutfield no little trouble. Sickness 
had brought on poverty, and there was no appro- 
priation for the support of the poor. Accordingly, 
in the warrant for the annual town meeting in 
1730 the eighth article read: "To see what the 
town will do about John Moore." Providence, 
however, interfered before the meeting was held 
and saved the town from its embarrassment, for 
the record says : " 8th article deferred by reason 
John Moore is dead." 




SOLDIERS MONU^rENT, MANCHESTER. 



WlLLET'S BOOK OF NUtFIBLD. 



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TAMES McMURPHV was born in London- 
<J deny July 28, 1733, in the nurthcrlv part of 
the town, by the Massabesic pond, where his uncle 
John was granted land for mills. After the death 
of his father, he purchased tiie homestead of 
David and Samuel Morrison, which the descend- 
ants have occupied ever since. He opened a store 
for West India goods in one part of his house and 
sold all such articles as were demanded in the 
neighborhood. About the time of the breaking 
out of the Revolution, he built the house now 
standing on that farm (see page 269). His 
svmpathy was with the crown. He married Mary 
Wilson, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Liggett) 
Wilson of Londonderry. She was born in 1 738 
and died May 10, 1818. He died May 30, 1792, 
leaving a will dated May 16, 1792. They had 
eight children : 

(i) Jane, born Oct. i, 1766, who was the first wife to John 
Duncan of Londonderry, to whom she was married Dec. 5, 
1795. To this marriage were born eight children, six of whom 
died in infancy: Hannah, born April 26, 1798, married Thomas 
Patterson of Londonderry April 30, 18 iS, mother of John D. 
Patterson and Mrs. Robert C. Mack ; Mary, born May 9, iSoo, 
married John Jackson of Londonderry. (2) Alexander, born 
March 21, 1768, of whom a sketch is given on page 276. 
(3) Jenny, born April 24, 1770, died Feb. 15, 1854, married 
Deacon Matthew Clark of Londonderry and had three children 
who never married: Mary, born Jan. 12, 1796, died Oct. 24. 
i860: Matthew, Jr., born Oct. 10, 1797, died Aug. 27, 1873: 
Jane, born July 28, iSot, died March 4, 1S88. (4) Peggy, born 
Nov. IT, 1772, died unmarried in Londonderry Dec. 10, 1851. 
(5) Mary, born April 4, 1775, married William Duncan Nov. 14, 
1 80 1, lived in Candia, had two children : William H., born Sept. 
26, 1S07, lawyer, died at Hanover March 29, 1883 ; James, born 
Oct. 3, 1810, died May 17, 1835. 1^) Betsey, born July 31, 
1777, died Dec. 4, 1839, married Robert Boyce, children: 
Jane D., born March 10, 1805 ; Robert M. and Joseph M., born 
Aug, 31, 1808; Benjamin M., born July 18, 1816; James, born 
March 7, 1812 ; Mary, bom June i, 1813 ; Charles, born June 
5, 1821, died young. (7) Benjamin, born A]5ril 30, 1779, died 
Nov. 14, 1S59, married Susan Cobb Dec. 25, 1814, and had nine 
children: James, born Oct. 14, 1815, died young; James D., 
born Dec 22, 1817 ; Rebecca C, born June 4, 1820; Mary W., 
born Aug. 21, 1823 ; John B., born Jan 8, 1829, Benjamin F., 
born July 8, 1825; Alice Jane, born Aug. 10, 1831 ; William 
Adams, born Aug. 25, 1835. (8) Alice, born July 3c, 1781. 
died unmarried in Derry, Sept. 14, 1871. 

ALEXANDER McMURPHV was probably 
not born in this country, as he is found of 
age to fill public offices and occupy a homestead 



a few years after the charter was granted to the 

town. He married Jenet , and lived in the 

northerly part of the town by the great pond and 
had certain mill privileges, died comparatively 
young from an accident, being drowned at Island 
Pond in the spring of the year while attempting 
to ford the rivet on horseback where the bridg-e 
had been washed away. There were certainly 
these children born to them, and probably others : 

(r) John, who left home early and settled in the western 
part of the state, dropped the "Mc" from his name : may have 
been a soldier. (2) George, who was a corporal >\nder Capt. 
Reed in 1775, served to the end of the war, occupied land in 
Londonderry several years afterward. (3} Jean, born Oct. 27, 
1725, married Hugh Ramsey in rather advanced life, having 
lived with her brother James several years before marriage at 
the homestead. (4) Alexander, born April i, 1728, died in 
middle life, captain, town officer, married Isabel Craig and left 
children : James, John, William, Alexander, and Jean. 
(5) Daniel, born July 8, 1731, settled in Hillsboro 1756, moved 
to Hill, and afterward to Alexandria, where a great-grandson of 
the same name still lives. He «as a lieutenant in the Revolu- 
tionary War. was wounded at Bunker Hill. His death occurred 
in 1K07. His wife was Mary Tolford, children: William, Alex- 
ander, Isabel, John Tolford, David, and Molly. (6) Jamef, 
born July 23, 1733, an account of whom is given elsewhere. 



A LEXANDER McMURPHV, the direct an- 
^~^ cestor of all of this name in America, was 
probably the one who was granted a half lot, 
second division and amendments, in company with 
James Liggett. His homestead was in the Three 
Quarter Mile Range, east of Beaver pond, ne.xt 
south of Gov. Wentworth's and immediately north 
of a second division laid out to Squire John 
McMurphy. His wife's christian name was Jean, 
and her death occurred Jan, 18, 1724, Alexander 
McMurjihy was drowned in the Powell river in 
Kingston Feb, 19, 1734, his body was recovered 
on the 23d, and was buried in the old burial ground 
by the meeting-hou.se. His family, as known, were : 



(i) Alexander, already given. (2) Scpiire John, born 1682, 
died in Portsmouth while attending the General Court Sejtt. 21, 
1755, leaving a large estate : an important and intluential towns- 
man, holding many offices : «ife, Mary Cargill : children : Mary, 
born Feb. 5, 1709, married Sir James Leslie: Jean, born ,\ug. 7, 
1711, married Major John Tolford of Chester; Isabel, born 
|uly 15, 17 13, married Deacon William Tolford of Chester; 



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Christine, born July 12, 1715, married Alexander Caldwell of 
Newbury : Alexander, born July 15. 17 17, married Sarah Rankin 
of Londonderry : John, born Jan. 5. 1720. died young : Robert, 
born Jan. S, 1723. married Jane Shirley March 10, 1747, lived 
in Londonderry, children: John, James, Robert, Jr., Mary, 
William, Matthew, and Alexander; Elizabeth, born Sept. 3. 
1728, married Matthew Patten. (3) Archibald, who was a 
"weaver and cordwainer, inspector of deer killing, etc., lived in 
the northern part of Londonderry, married Elizabeth Brown and 
had James, born Feb. 7, 1727: .-Mexander, born 1729, died 
1763 ; John, born July i, 1732, died 1759 : Elizabeth, born 1730. 
married Alexander McCollom, settled in New Boston ; Jean, 
married John Roside ; Sarah; Daniel, born 1737; Archibald, 
born 1744, married Isabel Aids Oct. 23, 1765, and lived in Lon- 
donderry, children : Samuel, who had a family ; Betty, married 
Wilkins and Joseph Jones : Martha, married David Reid ; Jane, 
unmarried ; Isabel, married John Thompson ; Mary, married 
David Brewster and John Duncan ; Archibald, unmarried : 
James, married Maria Smith ; Naomi, married William Duncan ; 
Jenny, unmarried ; .\nnie, married Ebenezer Caldwell. George, 
born 1746, married Nancy Ayers. (4) Jean, married William 
Craige. (5) , married Archibald McCurdy. ;6) Elizabeth. 

The Scotch cousins of the name are now 
found near Ballycastle, County Antrim, Ireland. 
The family of McMurphy has become numerous 
and very widely scattered. The spelling of the 
name in the earliest records is quite as frequent 
with one capital (Macmurphy) and the prefi.x in 
full. It is not improbable that some of the family 
came to America with the Wentworths, and their 
residence in the country and on the soil antedates 
the settlement of the town under chartered rights, 
as the record of births prior to 1719 may indicate. 
Before the charter of Londonderry was granted, 
and before the petition to Gov. Shute for the 
settlement of the colony, there were several 
families already occupying the territory called 
Nutfield in His Majesty's province of New 
Hampshire. 



INTERSCHOLASTIC CONTESTS.— One of 
' the ways in which the quality of Pinkerton 
Academy's work is shown, is in the success of its 
students in interscholastic contests. The most 
recent of these in New Hampshire occurred in 
Concord Jan. 31, 1896, when three representatives 
of Pinkerton Academy debated with a like number 
from the Concord High School. The question 



was : "Resolved, that the United States should 
own and control all the railroads within its 
domains." The affirmative was maintained by the 
following members of Concord High School : 
George H. Joslyn, class of '97 ; Edwin L. Page, 
class of '96 ; Russell D. Crane, class of '96. The 
Pinkerton students, who maintained the negative, 
were: Perley C. Grant of Auburn, class of '97; 
Chester A. Richardson of Pelham, class of '96 ; 
David B. Mulliken of Candia, class of '97. The 
judges were Hon. Frank N. Parsons of Franklin, 
Gen. S. F. Streeter of Concord, and Hon. S. S. 
Jewett of Lacunia. After emphatic commenda- 
tion of the arguments, as well as the spirit and 
manner of their presentation on both sides, the 
judges awarded the victory to the Pinkerton 
students. 

Jan. 19, 1894, a debate was conducted between 
three Pinkerton students of the class of '94, and a 
like number from the Manchester High School, 
before a board of judges consisting of Principal 
George N. Cross of Exeter, G. K. Bartlett of 
Derry, and Judge N. P. Hunt of Manchester. 
The subject of the discussion was: "Resolved, 
that Congress should pass more stringent immi- 
gration laws." E.xcept that this debate occurred 
in Derrv, the conditions were similar to those 
above described, and the Pinkerton students won. 

These are the only occasions in recent years 
when this academy has come into direct competi- 
tion with other schools of like grade, e.xcept in the 
essay contest of 1890, when the Boston Herald 
offered a prize of $600 to that member of the 
graduating class of any academy or high school in 
Massachusetts, Maine, or New Hampshire, who, 
on an appointed day, before a committee of the 
Herald's choice, should write the best essay on an 
assigned subject connected with the college 
requirements in English literature for the year. 
This prize was won by a student of Pinkerton 
Academy. 

The two debates above described have an his- 
torical value in the fact that they are among the 
first interscholastic contests of the kind to occur 
in New Hampshire. It is believed that only one 
such occasion preceded them, when a question 
was publicly discussed by representatives of the 
hiafh schools of Concord and Manchester. 



THE HIGH RANGE AND MOOSE HILL, 



BY REV. JESSE G. McMLlRPHY. 



'yHE importance of a range is not estimated by John McClurg's lot; also seventy rods of meadow 
* the quality of the soil, but by the characteris- between the lots of John Wallace and John 
tics and persistent economical habits of the people. Givean ; also thirty rods of meadow between John 
The most refractory and inhospitable portions of Wallace's and David Morrison's lot. These mea- 
the township have yielded to sturdy and repeated dows were scattered widely and must have been 
attacks of the husbandman through many years of harvested with considerable difficulty. Under date 
working days not limited to ten hours, nor even of Oct. 28, 1720, there is upon record the state- 
measured by the rising and setting sun. Every ment that Abram Holmes had not complied with 
settler was a proprietor at the beginning, and the homestead conditions and had rc(|uested the 
probably few among these proprietors had any committee of public affairs to allow him until the 
money for the hire of assistants. The greater part first of January to make a settlement upon his lot. 
of trade consisted in the exchange of products of Permission was granted, with the understanding 
the land for necessarv imjiorts. that lie must settle then or the lot would be dis- 
An examination of the records of the town posed of to others ready to make immediate 
of Londonderr\- in res])ect to the cjriginal occupa- settlement: 

tion of the Hi"h Ranire and adioinino- lands dis- t i 1 m 1 n. ^ t-u 1 -j .. ,1 

t^ '^ J t> Londonderry November 30'" T 736. Then laid out to Abra- 

closes the fact that while the allotments were not h^m Holmes ninety acres of land for twenty eight acres of good 

made lUltil the town had been settled nearly land which is thirteen acres of amendment land, said land lieth 

twenty years, the same names appear in the north of Bear meadow in said town : beginning at a pine tree 

schedule. Some of these proprietors appear to marked standing at a meadow that goes by the name of Cald- 

. ' . . r . well s meadow, then west one hundred and sixty three rods to a 

have considered the acquisition 01 territory a , , 1 q »i ., -, ^i, u 1 ^ ' 1 .1 > \ 

' • maj)le tree marked, then north one hundred and three rods by 

source of revenue, and the wisdom of their jlldg- marked trees to a stake and stones, then east one hundred and 

ment is generally manifested in the long eontin- sixty three rods to a pine tree marked J. H. then south to the 

uancc of the ancestral name in the community. As I'ounds first mentioned. Note there are four acres of land in 

. r ii • 1 ^ • ,.• 1 r ^1 • ■ t. said bounds reserved for a highway to the town where they see 

an instance 01 this characteristic and 01 this persist- , . . .j^ , , ,• ., , , ■ 

cause to lay it out, in said land, and this with some land in 

ence of name, it may be noted that Abram Holmes ^.^^^^^ -^ ^^,1 .^tigf^etion for the amendment land of ihe afore- 

was the proprietor of a homestead of sixty acres of said Holmes. Note: all the corners are marked J. H. John 

land in the Eayers Range, and for his second division Archibald, James Rogers, John Wallace, committee. Recorded 

he received a farm that was called forty acres, more this ^"' of September, 1738. Pr. John Wallace, 

1 J 1 • 1 i^ u • 1 Town Clerk. 
or less, and measured eighty acres, being one hun- 
dred and sixty rods long and eighty rods wide ; A' ^ •"^'-'•'"K "^ the pro,,rietors of Londonderry June I- 
, , , ' 1 1 1 r , r- 1 1 7 18, the foregoing record was read and approved of by the pro- 
also one acre and one hundred and lorty-nve rods ':' t ■ ^ c .^ r j 1. u n , • 1 r. 

pnetors aforesaid for the aforesaid Abraham Holmes benefit 

of meadow at Bear hill, just west of Samuel Mor- ^„^i i,;^ ^..ig^s forever. Attest per John Wallace, 

rison's lot ; also a meadow of thirty-five rods near Town Clerk. 













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Londonderry, November 30"' 17,56. Tlien laid out to 
Abraham Holmes ninety acres of land for twenty two acres of 
good land which is for eleven acres of amendment land, said 
land is situated and lieth in Londonderry aforesaid south west 
of the five and-twenty acre meadow, beginning at a ])itch pine 
tree marked standing on tiie line of David Morrison's land from 
thence south-west-by-south one hundred and sixty six rods by 
marked trees to a pitch pine tree marked J. H. from thence 
south east eighty two rods by marked trees to pitch pine tree 
marked J. H. and bounding on the common land, thence north- 
east-by-north to the five-and-twenty acre meadow to a stake and 
stones, then up said meadow bounds thirty nine rods to said 
Morrison's land, then southwest about twenty five rods to a 
pitch pine tree marked, then northwest to the bounds first men- 
tioned. Note that there are four acres of land in said bounds 
reserved for a highway to the town where they see cause to lay 
it out. Also note that the laid out meadows in said bounds are 
reserved to their owners. John Archibald, James Rogers, John 
Wallace, Committee. Recorded this 8"' of September 1738. 

Pr. John Wallace, 

Town Clerk. 

At a meeting of the proprietors of Londonderry June i" 
173S the foregoing record was read and approved of by the 
aforesaid proprietors for the aforesaid Abraham Holmes' benefit 
and his assigns forever. Attest pr John Wallace, 

'Iinun Clerk. 

In the allotment of land to Abiam Holmes 
the reader is made acquainted with a common 
feature of the records. There were other proprie- 
tors who received much more land, but this is an 
average amount, and the name has remained to 
the present. The farm of ninety acres laid out to 
Abraham Holmes at the north end of the High 
Range at this present time is divided into several 
parts and owned by Plummer, Greely, Gage, and 
McAllester. All except Daniel Gage of Lowell 
are townspeople. Jonathan McAllester, a lineal 
descendant of David McAllester, owns a portion 
and lives near by on his ancestral domains east of 
Bear meadow on the road leading to the High 
Range over Moose hill. David Morrison was a 
brother-in-law to David McAllester, and within ten 
years of the time the two hundred and forty acres 
were laid out to him, or about the period of his 
brother-in-law's settlement in Londonderry, con- 
veyed a large portion of this land to him, and there 
the name of McAllester has remained for more 
than a hundred and fifty years. 

The farm next south of Abraham Holmes, 
laid out to Stephen Pierce and Samuel Morrison, 
is owned by George Plummer. Stephen Pierce, 



who was the grandfather of President Franklin 
Pierce, as a proprietor under the charter, received 
a homestead between the English Range and the 
Three Quarter Mile Range. 

The farm assigned to Andrew Spalding has 
been divided into many portions. One portion 
was known as the Dismoor farm. Bennett, Hurd, 
and Greely about cover the limits of the original 
lot. Matthew Clark was a large landholder and 
left his sons many farms in various parts of the 
town. His homestead was located in the English 
Range. He was drowned accidentally at Amos- 
keag Falls, May 28, 1731, and his estate passed to 
his heirs soon after this lot of one hundred and 
sixty acres of land was assigned to him. 

The present owners of the Matthew Clark lot 
are Lowd, Miller, Towns, antl Farley. Samuel 
Houston's lot descended to the Caldwells, and 
Bolles, perhaps, although it is not always clearly 
evident that certain boundaries are original, and 
the former lines of division cannot be ascertained 
without actual surveys. 

It is traditionally affirmed that Charles S. 
Pillsbury occupies the original lot of James Gregg 
and Benjamin Kidder. At the date of the laying 
out of this lot of one hundred and seventy-five 
acres to Gregg and Kidder the southern boundary 
was recorded as touching on John Goffe's land. 
The clerical ambiguity is permitted to remain in 
the spelling of the name, as no person can identify 
the owner at the present time, and the land was 
soon afterward assigned to John Woodburn and 
John Senter, two persons whose histories are 
indelibly impressed upon the lives and memories of 
many generations. 

The highway leading southward across the 
easterly ends of the High Range farms was a very 
important line of communication before the con- 
struction of the Mammoth road. Il connected at 
the south end with the old Dunstable path, now 
known as the Nashua road from Deny. 

The lot of eighty acres laid out to Samuel 
Barr came into the possession of the family of 
Peter Patterson and remained a long time in their 
name. They also obtained a part of the Cargill 
land, the upper portion, and Thomas Patterson 
died there a few years ago. The greater part of 
the Cargill land was eventually converted into 



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farms, and by patient industry became the cul- the country in i 730, and if credence is to be given 

tivated and valuable homesteads of the Boyds. to the reports of some of the oldest residents of 

Col. Calvin and Mason Boyd, making extensive that part of the town, those pitch pine trees 

improvements on their farms, erecting large build- marked with initials of owners on one or more 

ings, raising large families, and dying at an sides stood a long time, in fact were of longer 

advanced age, are worthily remembered and hon- duration than the generation that saw them 

ored by their townsmen. marked and registered. 

There was at the date of the allotment of land As stated, a portion of David Morrison's lot 

a large area of meadow. Some of these meadow was deeded to David McAllester, and upon that 

areas are represented on the map with names, but Jonathan McAllester now lives. The two par- 



ten times the 
number are re- 
corded in the Pro- 
prietors' Book. 
Among these 
m e a d o w s per- 
haps the five-and- 
twenty acre mea- 
dow is a fair speci- 
men. It was di- 
vided into innu- 
merable parts, and 
the early settlers 
1 i \' i n g s e \' e r a 1 
miles distant were 
anxious to have 
even a small por- 
tion of a feu- 
square rods in this 
meadow. Some- 
times these mea- 
dows were four 
or five miles in 
length, extending 
throughout the 
whole course of 
a river, brook, or 



s o n a g e s 




SCHOOLHOUSE IN DISTRICT NO. I, LONDONDERRY. 



and 

churches on the 
Mammoth road, 
and the soldiers' 
monument and 
Glcnwood ccm- 
eterv, are all lo- 
cated on the Mor- 
rison land. The 
two houses and 
other buildings of 
the Macks are on 
this tract, with 
the greater part 
of their farms. 
The Mack farms 
include a portion 
of the lot granted 
to Andrew Todd, 
and among the 
relics found in 
Robert C. Mack's 
antiquarian col- 
lection is a pow- 
der horn picked 
up in the woods 
near his house, 



creek, and only a few rods wide at the widest, and with such engravings and letters traced in the 

for some portions of the stream the width was horn that he believed it to have been the property 

inconsiderable. of Lieut. Andrew Todd. 

Some care has been taken to indicate the cor- It has been noted that this part of the town 
ner bounds of these old alk)tments of land, as was allotted nearlv twenty years after the settle- 
adding an interest in the map to those who have ment, but it remains to point out to the reader 
had anv experience in surveying, or derive pleasure that the meadows were appropriated as early as 
from the perusal of old deeds, or enjoy the recog- anv land in the township, and probably were cut 
nition of a landmark that was old in the davs of and harvested for more than forty years before the 
their grandfathers. The pitch pine tree was a Nutfield colony thought of securing a claim upon 
common bound in the records of this section of them. The people of Haverhill continued to 



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maintain their rights to meadows in the easterly 
part of the town, and the people of Dracut, Tyngs- 
borousfh, and Dunstable contended for the west 
and the south for many years after the charter of 
King George I. granted a township to this colony 
in the name of Londonderry. 

July 28, 1723, there was laid out to James 
Blair one acre and ninety rods of meadow in the 
upper end of Bear meadow, bounded by the 
upland and by stakes that bounded some meadow 
of James Leslie. As James Blair lived in the 
English Range, he must have travelled twelve 
miles, counting both ways, for a day's work 
harvesting hay in that meadow, unless he sold his 
right to others. The same day there was laid out 
and recorded to James Leslie one acre and seventy 
rods of meadow in Bear meadow bounded by 
stakes between James Blan' on the north and 
James Lindsey and Matthew Clark on the south. 
Looking at the records again, it is seen that James 
Lindsey had for his share one acre and a half of 
the meadow at Bear meadow at the lower end and 
bounded on Leslie and Clark bv stakes. Sir 
James Leslie lived in the English Range, as did 
also James Lindsey and the others. On the same 
date there was laid out to Matthew Clark at Bear 
meadow one acre and a quarter of meadow 
bounded by stakes on Samuel Houston and James 
Lindsev, and thus every record adds a new name 
to the list of owners to a small meadow that 
not one of the proprietors lived within six miles of, 
and in a region not appropriated or platted into 
farms for manv years afterward. This was an 
unsettled region and the bear, moose, and wolves, 
with other smaller beasts, still claimed the privi- 
lege of picking berries, or browsing upon the 
tender shrubs, and other benefactions of nature 
not yet claimed by man. 

It is quite probable that John Goffe is the 
earlier form of a familiar name. And it is alleged 
on good authority that John Goffe was a refugee 
in this country prior to the settlement of the Nut- 
field colony, being one of the three famous 
regicides of historv (Wheaton, Whalley, and Gofife) 
that were concealed in Connecticut for a time. 
John Goffe may have been a squatter or a home- 
steader on the theory of occupation eventually 
securing a title, for it appears that the old book of 



records, called erroneously, perhaps, the Proprie- 
tors' Book, contains these entries, subjoined for 
the delectation of those who are interested in 
searching out the footsteps of marked individuals : 
"John Goffe, Jr., was born March 16th, 1700; 
Hannah Goffe was born Feb. 4th, i 705-6 ; Sarah 
Goffe was born Aug. 19, 1709; Mary Goffe was 
born April 12, 171 1." At the time these children 
were born to John Goffe, neither Londonderry nor 
Nutfield was here, but with the families of Butter- 
field, and Smith, and Graves, and Phillips, and 
others, they were here in anticipation. 



npHRIFT AND SORROW do not seem to 
•1 be necessarily incompatible. It is related of 
one of the early settlers of that part of Nutfield 
called Kilrea, that she was a very industrious 
woman and that her natural bent of character was 
shown at her husband's funeral. While the corpse 
was awaiting the rites of burial, she called out, 
impatient of delay: " Hand me the spinning wheel, 
and I will draw a thread while the crowd are 
gathering." Just as philosophical as she was Old 
Mellows, who lived north of the cemetery on 
Graveyard hill. His wife had gone on a visit to 
Beverly, and on returning in a rickety old chaise 
she was thrown out and her neck broken. At the 
funeral, two davs later, the afflicted husband 
remarked that had it not been for "the little delay 
at Beverly, Betsey would be with us on this great 
occasion." 




COURT HOUSE, MANCHESTER. 



HON. JOHN GAULT CRAWFORD. 



HON. JOHN GAULT CRAWFORD, son of meetings and raising volunteers. Enlisting in 

Hosea W. and Caroline M. (Gault) Craw- September as a private in the Second Michigan 

ford, was born in Oakham, Mass., April 21, 1834. Cavalrv, he was appointed sergeant major and 

His ancestors, who came to America in 1713, were later was commissioned lieutenant and detailed as 

among the first settlers of Rutland, Mass. Aaron battalion adjutant by Philip H. Sheridan, who was 

Crawford, the first of that name in this country, then colonel of the regiment. Returning to 

and his wife, Agnes Wilson, were Scotch-Irish. Michigan in 1863, he raised a company for the 

The family is descended from Alexander, the tenth cavalry and was commissioned captain by 



second son of Sir Mal- 
colm Crawford of Kil- 
birny, Scotland, the fif- 
teenth in descent from Jo- 
hannes de Craufurd, who 
lived about the year 1 140, 
and is the first one of the 
name of whom there is 
any record. John G. 
Crawford is of the twenty- 
sixth generation from Jo- 
hannes. His great-grand- 
father was a captain in the 
Revolutionary war and 
was present at the capture 
of Burgoync. His grand- 
father also served in the 
Continental army for a 
time near the close of 
the struggle for inde- 
pendence. John G. Craw- 
ford's earlv educational 
advantages were limited 
to the district schools of 
his town, with a few 
terms at the academy. 
In the spring of 1855 he 




HON. JOHN G. CRAWFORD, 



Governor Blair. He was 
in twenty engagements 
and was twice wounded. 
In 1864 he was elected 
to the Michigan state 
senate and served two 
years. He was admitted 
to the bar in 1865 at 
Pontiac, Mich., and to 
the United States court 
in 1867. Removing to 
Lancaster, N. H., in 1870, 
he practiced law until 
1 88 1, when he was ap- 
pointed by President Gar- 
field United States consul 
at Coaticook, Canada, 
holding that office three 
years and winning a repu- 
tation as one of the most 
efficient consuls in the 
service. He came to 
Manchester in 1890 and 
has been engaged in the 
practice of his profession 
ever since. Mr. Craw- 
ford has been on the 



went to Kansas, when the territory was first stump in every campaign since 1856, and being an 

opened to settlement, and took an active part in eloquent and earnest advocate of Republican prin- 

the struggle with the boi'der ruffians, serving with ciples, he has rendered incalculable service to his 

General Lane and John Brown. Returning to party. His reputation as a public speaker is by 

Massachusetts in 1856, he resumed his studies and no means confined to New Hampshire, for he has 

in 1859 entered the law office of J. M. Gorham of been in great demand as a campaign orator in 

Barre, Mass., continuing his legal studies and Michigan, Massachusetts, Vermont, and other 

teaching winters until the spring of 1861, when he states. The voters of 137 towns have listened to 

went to Michigan on a visit. A few days after him, and many close districts have been carried 

his arrival there Fort Sumter was fired on, and for his ticket by his masterly presentation of the 



Mr. Crawford immediately began addressing war issues. 

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239 



Emma Tindall in Michigan; after her death he 
was married, June 30, 1867, to Abbie T. Stevens 
of Frankhn, Mass., and on April 30, 1885, his 
second wife having died, he was united in marriage 
to Marv A. Harrington of Worcester, Mass. He 
has one daughter, Carrie E., born Sept. 30, 1870. 
Mr. Crawford is a member of the Masonic frater- 
nity and of Louis Bell Post, G. A. R. He attends 
the Hanover-Street Congregational church. 



r^OL. ANDREW C. WALLACE was born 
^-^ in Antrim Oct. 26, 1820. He is a great- 
grandson of Deacon Isaac Cochran, who was an 
officer in the Revolutionary war and who was 
present at the surrender of Burgoyne. Deacon 
Cochran built the first two-story house in the town 
of Antrim, where he settled in 1785. Col. Wallace 
lived in his native town until he was seven- 
teen years of age, when his father, who was a 
carpenter, removed to Bedford. Here he worked 



at his father's trade until he became of age, and 
coming later to Manchester he was in the employ 
of Baldwin & Stevens until 1848, when he pur- 
chased their machinery and started in business for 
himself, manufacturing sash, doors, and blinds. 
He was burned out in 1852, and he then removed 
to Littleton, where he remained about a year 
engaged in business. Returning in the spring of 
1853, he established himself on Main street, where 
he has ever since been located and where he 
carries on a large business in the manufacture and 
sale of lumber. He has erected several business 
blocks and is a large real estate owner. Col. 
Wallace has always been greatly interested in the 
fire department and in the state militia. From 
1848 until 1882 he was a member of the fire 
department, and for eight years was on the board 
of engineers. He was an active member of the 
old Stark Guard, and a charter member of the 
Amoskeag Veterans, being major commanding of 




COL. A. C. W.-M.I.ACE AND HIS I.U.MliEKMEN. 



240 



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the latter organization when it visited the centen- 
nial exposition in 1876. In politics, Col. Wallace 
has been one of the most efficient workers and 
wisest leaders of the Republican party, and his 
efforts have many times enabled that party to carry 
the city. He was a member of the board of alder- 
men in 1857-58 and in 1881-82, and of the state 
legislature in 1856, '71, and '72. Other honors 
have frequently been urged upon him, but he has 
declined them all. Since its organization he has 
been a valued member of the water commission. 




COL. A. C. WALLACE. 



As a breeder and owner of blooded road and trot- 
ting horses, Col. Wallace is one of the best known 
men in New England. Few men possess such 
excellent judgment concerning horses as he, and 
his opinion is frequently sought. For years he 
owned the noted stallion Ned Wallace, whose 
record was 2.25, the fastest trotter of his day in 
New Hampshire. Col. Wallace was president of 
the Manchester Driving Park Company for several 
years and has perhaps done more than any other 
one man to promote the interests of the trotting 
turf in this vicinity. 



HORACE GREELEY'S VISIT.— Horace 
Greeley visited Londonderry in the autumn 
of 1832. He was then about twenty-one years 
old, tall, pale, and thin, somewhat awkward, but 
dignified and manly. Making the home of John 
Dickey his headquarters for more than a week, he 
visited his relatives and old acquaintances in the 
neighborhood, starting out in the morning and 
returning at night. His evenings were spent in 
reading or telling stories in his quaint and pleasing 
way. Sometimes sights and incidents of New 
York life were the subjects of his conversation, 
but his greatest delight was in relating anecdotes 
of settlers on the western frontier. He always 
fascinated both young and old. During his stay 
he attended a militia muster of the old eighth 
regiment on the field of John Pinkerton. Although 
not much interested in military affairs, he started 
off with high hopes of meeting some friends whom 
he had not yet seen. Rain, however, spoiled the 
day's enjoyment, and he soon returned, and 
expressed a rather indifferent opinion of New 
Hampshire militia musters, declaring that •' they 
weren't much of an institution, after all." After 
partaking of the hospitalities of all his relatives in 
Londonderry, Manchester, and Windham, he 
departed for the scene of his labors, and in a few 
months started his first newspaper, the New 
Yorker. He was in town again in June, 1840, on 
his way to the Harrison convention at Concord, 
and he subsequently made frequent visits to Lon- 
donderrv, twice being accompanied by his wife, 
and on three occasions he made public addresses 
in town. In 1847 he spoke at Derry, Exeter, and 
Chester, and while at the latter place was the 
guest of Hon. Samuel Bell, whom he ever after- 
ward spoke of as resembling his ideal states- 
man, Henry Clay. At the time of Greeley's death 
there were 119 residents of Londonderry who 
were of his kith and kin. 



DEER-KEEPERS, "to see that the dear should 
not be destroyed," were chosen annually by 
the town of LoncUjndcrry as late as 1768. Deer 
were frequently seen within the limits of old Nut- 
field in the early years of the present century, but 
they were not so numerous as to require the 
services of a keeper. 



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GLENWOOD CEMETERY.— This cemetery 
is of recent origin and of less antiquarian 
interest tlian several others except in the instances 
of a few monuments that have been erected to 
perpetuate the memory of families widely scattered 
whose dead, in i>art, repose in other burial grounds. 
The situation of this cemetery in Londonderry 
is central, with reference to the two religious 
societies and their meeting-houses upon the Mam- 
moth road. Sheltered by a grand old oak forest 
upon the north and east and lying by a great 
thoroughfare, this cemetery will serve as a per- 
manent place of burial. At the entrance is the 
substantial tomb of David R. Leach, erected in 
1873. The record of his death and age are not 
visible from the exterior. The Patterson monu- 
ment bears about forty inscriptions of historic and 
arencalotrical value. 

The following list of l)urial inscriptions is 
alphabetically arranged, excepting in the instances 
of persons of other names mentioned on monu- 
ments in connection with a family, and where it 
has been considered unwise to disturb the order 
for fear of destroying the clue to relationship: 

Aiken, George died Dec 7, 1889, aged 74 yrs 5 mos : 

Rosiabell ; George F., born May 18, 185S, died Feb 

8, 1880. 

Anderson, John N. died July 3, 1865, aged 65 yrs ; Eliza 
K. (wife) died July 29, 1872, aged 67 yrs : John (son) aged 2 yrs. 

Anderson, Elder David's monument, dau ; Eliza G. died 
March 18, 1875, aged 30 yrs 4 mos 22 dys ; Walter Clinton 
(son of Alberto C. and Persis T. Brown) died Dec 31, 1879, 
aged 5 yrs 10 mos 10 dys. 

Anderson, Sarah A. (wife of George E. Anderson) died 
Sept 3, 1868, aged 30 yrs; Sarah J. (second wife) born Jan 9, 
1843, ^"^^^ F^b 20, 1894. 

Annis, Mina A. Gilcreast (wife of Daniel G. Annis) 1847- 
1885 ; Infant (son) died .\pril 20, 1S69 : Infant (dau) died Nov 
II, 1892 ; E. Jane (sister) 1843- 1892. 

Annis, Olive C. (wife of F. P. Bailey) died Sept 4. 1854, 
aged 32 yrs g mos. 

Annis, Angle I. died Dec 23, 1863, aged 3 mos : Angle 
Bell died Dec 22, 1864, aged 3 mos 12 dys ; George W. died 
June I, 1867, aged 4 mos: Edith M. died May 10, TS75, a-a'cd 
3 mos: Earnest H. died Jan 9, 1892, aged 10 \ts. 

AvERV, John died Oct 10, 1883, aged 61 years: Henry F. 
died Aug. 28, 1S71, aged 22 yrs; Paulina M. (dau of J. M. and 
J. Avery) died June 23, 1886, aged 27 yrs 5 mos 25 dys. 

Bancroft (see WyckofF). 

Barker, Daniel K. died July 31, 1869, aged 60 y 5 mos : 
Elizabeth W. (wife) died May 26, 1879, aged 74 yrs 6 mos 26 
dys ; "Little Mabel" died Dec 15, 1869, aged i yr 8 mos 23 dys. 



Barker, George (). (son of Charles O. and Jane S. Barker) 
born April 29, 1863, died June 2. 1865 ; George F. died Aug 13, 
1 89 1, aged 25 yrs 2 mos ; George O. died . 

Blood, John died Nov 16 1885, aged42>Ts: Anna Frances 
(dau of John and Frances Blood) died June 26, 1S82, aged 

10 yrs 3 mos ; Jessie Mabel (dau) died July 13, 1882, aged 6 yrs 
3 mos ; Oliver died July 30, 1887, aged 69 yrs : Sarah J. (wife of 
Gilbert Hills) died Oct 30, t88i, aged 70; Henry, died March 
5, 1852, aged 5 mos. 

Boyd, Col Calvin born March 5, 1818, died Feb 8, 1879 ; 
Mason born Aug 28, 1821, died Sept 23, 1889 ; George H. born 
Feb. 3, 1865, died Sept 2 1892 : Mary born May 25, 1874, died 
June 5, 1874. 

BovNTON, Edward P. 1845-1893 ; Lizzie E. (dau of E. P. 
and Emma Morrison Boynton) died April 2, 1875, aged 

11 mos 26 dys. 

Chase, Nathaniel born Aug 5, 1790, died Nov. 21, 1879; 
Lydia born May 7, 1783, died Jan g, 1872 ; Ann (dau) born Jan 
8, 1821, died July 11, 1883. 

Chase, Esther (dau, and wife of Edwin Follaii.sbee) born 
Feb 18, 1 816, died July 31, 1863. 

Clark, Reed P. born July 6, 1807, died .^pril 8, 1882: 
Elizabeth Perkins (wife) born March 21. 1808. died July 4, 1880 ; 
Sarah AUina (dau) born Oct 21, 1840, died Aug 12, 1841 ; .Sarah 
Elizabeth (dau) born Jan 15, 1847, died May 18, 1S93 : Ralph 
born Nov 27, 1882. died July 22, 1887. 

CoBURN, Isaac born July 23, 1812, died Jan 13, 1883. 

CoNANT, WilHam died Dec 17, i88t, aged 73 yrs: Rachel 
W. Garvin (wife) died Nov 17, 1877, aged 62. 

Chase, Lavina Eaton died .\ug 11. 1886, aged 54 yrs 
10 mos 4 dys. 

Coffin, First Lieut Haskell P., Co B Heavy .\rtillery .\'. H. 
Vols, died March 3, 1S83, aged 46 yrs ; Naphthali died July 19, 
1873, aged 81 yrs : Nancy (wife) died June 19, 1S56, aged 58 yrs. 

Corning, .Alfred A. died July 22, 1871, aged 39 yrs 8 mos. 

Crowell, Myron VV. (only son of Wm. H. and Almira A. 
Parker Crowell) born Nov 2, 1874. died Jan 16, i8g3 ; Samuel 
born Nov 4, 1813, died Dec 28, 18S2 : Hannah (wife) born 
March 2, 1817, died Jan 31, 1890. 

Dickey, Caroline P. (wife of John Dickey) horn .Aug 26. 
1830, died Dec 14. 1888. 

Dillingha.m, Mrs. Sarah G. died Feb 10, 1880, aged 
lli >TS 5 mos. 

DisSiMORE, John died .Aug 6, 1874, aged 73 yrs : Lucy (wife) 
died Feb 11, 1877, aged 72 yrs; Abiah K. (dau 1 died Sejit 12, 
iS5g, aged 25 yrs 10 mos 12 dys. 

Dow, John C. died .Aug i, 1875, aged 25 yrs 3 mos: 
Betsey E. died Feb 5, 1877, aged 76 yrs 11 mos : Isaac died 
April 22, 187S, aged 71 yrs i mo; Elizabeth (wife) died Feb 25. 
1884, aged 73 yrs g mos. 

Farley. .Augustus L. born .April 25, 1833, died .Ajiril 

i3> 1877- 

Flanders, David died Nov 5, 1850, aged 50 yrs : Lucy B. 
(wife) died Aug 19 1881, aged 77 yrs. 

Gilcreast, John born July 13, iSig, died Nov 20, i8gi : 
Marinda Peabody (wife) born March 19, 1827, died Feb 19, 1S74. 

GiH^nN. Sarah J. (wife of John C. Gibson) 1842-1892. 



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Goodwin, John born May 23, 1838, died Oct 27, 1875; 
Carrie W. (wife) born Dec 7, 1843, died June 18, 1S67 : josiah 
born Nov 28, 1S07, died July 29. 1F93 : Esther (wife) born Dec 
5, 1810, died March 9, 1S88 ; Fannie S. (wife of Joseph S. Good- 
win) born July 25, 1849, died May 25, 1883; Infant (son of 
Joseph S. and Maria L. Goodwin) ; Mary L. ' dau of same) born 
April 19, 1887, died Mays, '887. 

Greeley, Sanford, 1813-1884. 

GiLCREAST, Annie J. (wife of Franklin Gilcreast) died Dec 7, 
1S88, aged 41 yrs 10 mos 25 dys. 

Greeley, Franklin died Aug 2, if 64, aged 55 yrs : Ab'gail 
(wife) died April 21, 1882, aged 74 yrs. 

Gregg, Horace D. died May 23, 1873, aged 30 yis 10 mos ; 
William died Nov 13, 1866, aged 52 yrs 8 mos ; Abigail P. (wife) 
died Nov 17, 1881, aged 68 yrs 2 mos; Lauraett (wife of Nathan 
Parker) died Sept 25, 1872, aged 27 yrs 10 mos. 

Hardy, Etta J. (wife of George A. Hardy) died jan 20, 



1881, aged 32 yrs 8 mos ; Fred M. (son) died Nov 



■875- 



aged 4 mos 2 dys. 

Haynes, John, M. D., died May 3. 1874, aged 43 yrs 5 n-.os ; 
Mary M. (wife) born Oct 25, 1834, died July 21, 1869. 

Hills, Gilbert died Oct 30, 18S1, aged 70 yrs. 



Hurd, George died June 10, 1875, aged 51 yrs 10 mos 
27 dys : Nancy M. (dau of George and Nancy J. Hurd) died 
April 19, 1877, aged 8 yrs 4 mos 24 dys. 

Leach, David R. (tomb). 

LuNT, Charlie (son of Aaron and Susan Lunt). 

Hicks, Charlie F. (son of C. P. and M. Hicks) died Sept 
7, 1876, aged 13 mos, and "Our Baby," died . 

Mack, Robert died Sept 9 1870, aged 86 yrs 6 mos : Annie 
Clark (wife) died Aug 28, 1855, aged 63 yrs ; Robert C. (son) 
born Dec 31, :8i8, died Jan 11, 1894; Jane D. Patterson (wife) 
born March 19, 18 19, died Feb 3, 1894: Isabella A. (dau of 
Robert and Annie Mack) died March 20, 1827 aged 3 mos 
15 dys ; Andrew W. died Feb 7, 1S77, aged 56 yrs 5 mos ; John 
Preston (son) died Sept 10, 1873, aged 14 mos. 

McAllester, Benjamin born March 25, 1819, died Dec 14, 
1S87 ; Caroline Savory (wife) born March 14, 1821, died Oct 25, 
1883 ; Thomas Savory, M. D., born in Londonderry July 10, 1S47, 
died at his home in Amesbury, Mass., May 3, 18S0. 

McGregor, William died Dec 9, 1S82, aged 50 yrs 10 mos. 

Mackay, James W. died Dec 22, 1887, aged 62 yrs 9 mos ; 
Abbie M. (wife) died Dec 25, 1S76, aged 52 yrs 11 mos: 
Arthur E. (son) died April 12, 18S2, aged 20 yrs 6 mos. 



P^*fll^J*-. 




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24 j 



Harden, Laura F. died Feb 12, 1881, aged 45 yrs 8 nios 
27 dys. 

MoAK, Joshua A. died Sept 26, 1872, aged 58 yrs ; 
Lovina W. (wife) died Dec 26, 18S2, aged 68 )ts 8 mos 18 dys ; 
Hattie E. (dau) died Aug 31, 1865, aged 2 yrs i mo 22 dys; 
Harriet Lovina (dau, and wife of Charles E. Perkins) died July 
30, 1862, aged 20 yrs 10 mos. 

Perkins, Hattie Louisa (dau) died Aug 11, 1862. 

Morrison, John died Sept 12, 1870, aged 76 yrs ; Belinda C. 
died Sept 27, 1863, aged 22 yrs 24 dys. 

Mottram, Mary H. (dau of John and Mary Mottram) died 
Jul}' 5, 1882, aged 15 yrs. 

Patterson, monument of 1870; Peter born 1716, died 
1800; Grisey Wilson (wife) botn 1722, died 1817, married 
1744; children: Patterson, Robert, born 1744, died 1828; 
Thonns born Oct 23, 1746, died May 20, 1S34 ; John born 
1750, died 1793.; Rachel (McNeill) born 1752, died 1838; 
Margaret (Holmes) born 1755, died 1838; Sarah (Melendy) 
born 1758, died 1820; Grisey iBurns) born 1761, died 1S45 ; 
Elizabeth (Burns) born 1765, died 1848. Peter Patterson came 
from Ireland in 1736, was son of John, son of Robert, son of 
John of Scotland. 

Patterson, Thomas, married June i. 1775, Elizabeth 
Wallace ; their children : Grisey (Harnett) born March 26, i 776, 
died Nov 13, 1850 ; James, born Nov 21, 1777, died June 4, 
1815 ; Peter born Nov 14, 1779, died Feb 17, 1863 ; Rol)ert 
born April 24, 1781, died June 27, 1859. 

Patterson, Mary (McNeill) born April i, 1783, died Feb 
22, 1812; Margaret (Taylor) born Oct 10, 1784, died Nov 24, 
1858 ; Thomas born Aug 11, 17S6, died Oct 27, iS6g ; William 
born June 4, 1789, died Aug 14, 183S; Elizabeth (widow of 
Mark Baker of Tilton, N. H., and formerly wife ot AN'illiam 
Duncan, E^q., of Candia, N. 'H.) born June 10, 1791, died 
June 6, 1875 ■ L)avid born Feb 11, 1793, died Feb 12, 1793; 
Jane (Frank) born Aug 30, 1795, •^'^'^ ^^^ '9' 1867; George 
Washington born Nov 11, 1799, died Oct 15, 1879. The 
remainder of the inscriptions relate to the family of Wallaces 
and are found at the end of the list. 

Patterson, Hannah Duncan (wife of Thomas Patterson) 
born April 26, 1798, died Nov 12, 1869. 

Pelton, Amy M. (wife of John C. Towns) died Sept 23, 
1 89 1, aged 52 yrs 4 mos. 

Towns, Arthur J. C. (son) died Jan iS, 1873, 'ig'^d 2 yrs 
1 1 mos 4 dys. 

Perkins, Jane (wife of Washington Perkins) born Feb 21, 
1828, died Dec 27, 1887. 

Pll.LSBURY, John Arthur (>on of C. S. and Mary Pillsbury) 
died Jan 17, 1873. aged 4 mos 21 d)s; Dixie . 

Plummer, Nathan died Aug 24, 1886, aged 76 yrs 9 mos 
9 dys; Arley died Jan 10, 1879, aged So yrs 11 mos 21 dys ; 
Lydia C. (wife) died Nov 10, 1889, aged 81 yrs 9 mos; 
Albert C. died March 25, 1873, ^g^d 21 yrs 6 mos; Elizabeth P. 
(wife of John A. Plummer) died Feb 15, 1880, aged 65 yrs. 

Savory, Jonathan born May 7, 1812, died Feb 2, 1881 ; 
Abigail C. (wife) born Jan 4, 1814, died Sept 8, 1885. 

Schvv'artz, Frederick L. born 1827, died 1892; Cordelia 
(wife) born 1837, died 1893. 

ScoLLAY, Estellae E. died June 22, 1881, aged 24 yrs 3 mos ; 



William died Dec 17, 1890, aged 77 yrs 3 mos; Catherine 
(wife) died Dec 22, 1874, aged 58 yrs 11 mos. 

Sleeper, Josiah died Dec 10, i88i,aged 83 yrs 8 mos. 

Stone, Nancy Jane (wife of James G. Stone) died Nov 7, 
1859, aged 23 yrs 8 mos. 

Tennev, Charles born Nov 13, 1821, died Dec 16, 1886; 
Arley P. (son of Charles and Eliza Tenney) died Nov 16, 1865, 
aged 21 yrs 7 mos. 

Towns, Jabez died Dec iS, 1879 ; aged 95 yrs ; Mary (wife) 
died Jan i, 1828, aged 36 yrs; Jane (2d wife) died Aug 25, 
1847, aged 52 yrs. (See Pelton for names.) 

Wallace, James (these seven names from the Patterson 
stone) born 1712, married 1742, died 1791 ; Mary Wilson (wife) 
born 1720, died 1813 ; children : Thomas born 1745, died 1790; 
Robert born 1749, died 1815 ; Elizabeth rPatt.-rson) born Nov 
14. 1755. died Dec 30, 1833; William born 1760, died 1824: 
James born 1762, died 1794. 

Wallace, Perley died Sept 29, 1S78, aged 66 yrs i mo 
21 dys; Mary (wife) died Aug 9 1839, aged 40 yrs; George H. 
died Jan 29, 1848, aged 7 years; Mary E. died June 20, 1876, 
aged 27 yrs (see Dillingham) ; Addie (wife of William P. Wal- 
lace) died April 5, 1886, aged 48 yrs. 

Whittemore, Lewis G. died April 27, 1883, aged 16 yrs 
1 1 mos 10 dys ; Amey L. (wife of Rev. J. L. Whittemore) died 
Nov 6, 1866, aged 51 yrs. 

Whorf, Juliette A. B. (wife of Benjamin F. Whorf) born 
.\pril 12, 1833, died Jan 8 1892 : Benjamin born Feb 22, 1783, 
died Sept 10, 1842; Shuah (wife) born June 6, 1787, died 
Oct 7, 1874; Hattie M. born Nov 21, 1865, died Sept 2, 1892. 

Wilev, Ella E. (wife of George B. Wiley) died June 19, 

18S2, aged 31 yrs 10 mos; " Vertie " ; Nancy A. Blood 

(wife of Ephraim A. Wiley) died Feb 28, 1893, aged 69 yrs ; 
Lucy E. died Aug 26, 1861, aged 16 yrs ; Sarah E. died March 
4, 1862, aged 17 yrs; Mary E. died Aug 15, 1866, aged 
19 yrs ; Mary A. died Feb 21, 1892, aged 26 yrs. 

WiLLEv, Vowel! died June 5, 1874, aged 67 yrs ; Elizabeth 
B. (wife) died July 26, 1872, aged 69 yrs 5 mos. 

Wyckoff, Joseph .\. ('0 K. 4th Reg N. H. Vols, born 
June 5, 1830, died Oct 22, 1862, Elizabeth (wife) born Jan 18, 
1824 ; Maroia (Payne) born Dec 18, 1861, died Jan 25, 1887 ; 
on the same stone : David E. Bancroft born March 24, 1824, 
died April i, 185 1 ; Wyckoff, Julia E. born July 20, 1856 ; died 
May 20, 1863 ; Emma A. born Sept 26, 1853, died April S, 1891. 



lOHN NESMITH ANDERSON, who died 
<J in Londonderry July 3, i86'5, aged si.xty-fivc 
years, was of pure Scotch-Irish stock. On his 
mother's side he was allied to the Nesmiths, Reids, 
and McKeans, so long famous in the history of 
Nutfield. Like them he had often luld the 
highest offices in the gift of his native town. He 
was town clerk twentv-one years, selectman seven 
years, and representative to the general court five 
years. He was also a member of the constitu- 
tional convention of 1850. 



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POPPING THE QUESTION does not seem 
always to have been invested with as much 
tender romance in the olden days as is generally 
the case in modern times, though doubtless the 
passion of love was quite the same then as now. 
There was no beating around the bush when 
John Cochran proposed to the beautiful and 
spirited Mary Woodburn, and there was no vague- 
ness in her reply. He broached the subject to her 
one day in this wise: "Mary, if I were you, I'd 
have me." She was silent, and after a pause, he 
took courage and went on: "I say, Mary, if I 
were you, I'd have me, and not have that George 
Reid. He has been nowhere ; he has nothing at 
all, and has never been out of the sight of his 
mother in his life, and I have been all over the 
country. I've travelled and been to the war. I've 
been to the plains of Abram and fought there 
and bled there. Now, Mary, have me." Mary 
looked him straight in the eye. " I'll not have 
you, John," she said; "you must go home, 
your mother wants you, and I'll have George Reid 
dead or alive." She married Reid and became a 
worthy helpmeet to that distinguished general. 



T^HE PLUMMER FAMILY.— Abel Plum- 
1 mer went to Nutfield, now Londonderry, 
from Rowley, Mass., in 1775, and purchased a farm 
of Edward Aiken, upon which stood an Indian 
garrison, and which has remained in the Plummer 
family to the present time. His family consisted 
of his wife, four sons, three daughters, and his 
aged father. Two of his sons, Nathan and Davis, 
served in the Revolutionary war, and one other 
son, Captain Abel Plummer, succeeded him on the 
home farm. This son married Elizabeth Hale, and 
the names of their children were : Persis, Arley, 
Abigail, Eliza, Warren, Abel, and Hale. In 1807 
his wife died, and he afterward married Mary 
Anderson, by whom he had seven children : Mary, 
Nancy, John A., William, Susan, Elmira, and 
Sarah. 

Captain John Anderson Plummer was born 
Aug. 5, 1 8 14. For more than eighty years he has 
resided on the original Plummer estate, where he 
is still living with his son, Granville F. In 1837 
he married Eliza P. Coffin, and their children are : 
Mary N., who married Joseph Vickery and lived 
in Norwalk, O. ; Elmira E., who married Rev. 




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Henry B. Copp ami lives in Epping, N. H. ; laid out to David Morrison in the Eayers Range 

Emma A., who married Captain I. F. Hobbs and in 1723. tie owned about one hundred acres 

lives in Lake Citv, la. ; Granville Flanders, who, adjoining the forty acres occupied by Rev. James 

with the exception (A brief periods spent in McGregor. The Morrisons retained possession of 

Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston, and in the their lands for several generations. 





GRANVILLE F. PLUMMEK. 



army, has resided on the old homestead, being the 
fifth generation from the settlement ; he enlisted 
in the Eighteenth Regiment, New Hampshire 
Volunteers, and was at the siege of Petersburg 
under General Grant when Lee surrendered ; in 
1874 he married Kate E. Hughes of Windham, a 
portrait of whom is given on page 30 ; Laura A., 
who married Charles M. Noyes and lived in 
Nashua; and Albert C, who died in 1873, aged 
twenty-one. 

THE TOWN HALL and the Presbyterian and 
Methodist churches in the present town of 
Londonderry all stand upon land which was first 



T ONDONDERRY M. E. CHURCH.— It is 
l— ' thought that a Methodist class was organized 
in Londonderry in 1838 or 1839, but there is no ac- 
tual proof of this. An old class paper bearing the 
date of 1847 has been discovered, showing that there 
were thirty-five members of the class and that it was 
registered as No. 4. Rev. George W. F. Rogers 
was then pastor at Derry. Various attempts were 
made to have preaching on Sundays at Jackson 
hall, but nothing seems to have been permanently 
accomplished. In the spring of 1854, Mrs. Lewis 
Bolles, a resident of the town, but a member of 
the Congregational church in Nashua, was touched 
by the general religious dearth and destitution of 
the town. Knowing that Rev. Henry Nutter, a 
superannuated Methodist preacher of the New 
Hampshire Conference, was living at Kingston, 
out of employment, she persuaded her husband to 
write him and ascertain if his services could be 
secured as preacher for a time in Londonderry. 
The result was that an arrangement was im- 
mediately made with Mr. Nutter by which he was 
to preach in the town hall for one year. He 
began a few weeks before the meeting of the Con- 
ference. From the start the hall was filled to 
overflowing with an appreciative congregation. 
A large Sunday school was organized, and every- 
thing indicated a prosperous movement. At the 
Conference Mr. Nutter was formally appointed to 
Londonderry. The work went on, and soon a 
revival was in progress which was far-reaching in 
its results. As the interest increased, the town hall 
was opened for evening services, which were largely 
attended. In these meetings Mr. Nutter was 
assisted by Rev.G. W. H. Clark and Rev. J. W. F. 
Barnes. Among the converts were many of the 
Sunday school children.':' FAt an early day Mr. 
Nutter's attention was directed to the need of a 
house of worship for the new society. He accord- 
ingly entered with his characteristic zeal on the 
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such an edifice as the wants and prospects of the 
young^church demanded. He succeeded beyond 
his most sanguine expectations. Subscriptions 
sufficient to warrant the beginning of the work 
were speedily obtained, a locaHty was chosen, and an 
eligible lot of land secured near the centre of the 
town in immediate proximity to the town hall and 
the Presbyterian church. The house went up 
rapidly, for the people " had a mind to 
work," and before Mr. Nutter closed his 
two years' pastoral service he was per- 
mitted to see a tasteful and convenient 
temple of worship, standing precisely 
where it ought to stand, filled with inter- 
ested worshippers on Sundays, an adorn- 
ment to the town and an honor to the 
church and society which had erected it. 
When the house was completed it was 



eighty of whom had united with the church on 
probation. The church has continued in a fairly 
prosperous condition up to the present time. In 
1891 the house was repaired and greatly beautified 
at the cost of $2,700. Below are given the names 
of all the ministers who have served the church, 
with the dates of their pastorates: Henrv Nutter, 
1854-56 (died June 15, 1872); A. Folsom, 1S56- 





PARSONAGE. 



METHODIST CHURCH, LONDONDERRY. 

found that $300 was due the workmen for ser- 
vices. The trustees borrowed this sum from 
John P. Young, thus enabling the church to start 
on its mission without any burden save such as it 
could easily carry. The church was dedicated 
March 5, 1856, Rev. Elisha Adams preaching the 
sermon on the occasion. Mr. Nutter continued 
to occupy the pulpit until June, when his pastorate 
closed. One hundred had professed conversion, 



57 (died March 31, 1872); Joseph 
Hayes, 1857-59; A. C. Button, 1859- 
60; G. W. T. Rogers, 1860-62 ; O. H. 
Call, 1862-65 ; Irad Taggart, 1865-66; 
Joseph Hayes, 1866-68; Elihu Scott, 
1868-69 (died Sept. 24, i88S);A. A. 
Cleavland, 1869-71; J. A. Steele, 
'^'^I'^-ll'^ L. L. Eastman, 1873-74; 
Samuel Beedle, 1874-75 (died Jan. 8, 
1 891); Jacob F. Spaulding, 1875-79; 
A. R. Lunt, 1878-79 (died Dec. 19, 1892); 
Edward P. F. Dearborn, 1879-81 ; J. Mowry Bean, 
1881-84; J. H. Knott, 1884-87; H. B.' Copp, 
1887-88; Irad Taggart, 1888-93; Noble Fisk, 
1893 to the present time. 

It is fitting to give here a brief sketch of 
John P. Young, who was not only generous, but 
who had a keen sense of justice, and his last will 
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a little further on, shows how, in the distribution 
of the large property which he had accumulated, 
he remembered the interests of this church, of 




REV. NOBLE FISK. 

which he was an active and faithful member, as 
well as of his relatives. 

John P. Young was born in Manchester July 2, 1S05, beiny; 
one of a family of thirteen children. The burden of sujjpoiting 
such a large family prevented his jjarents from gi\'ing him the 
advantages of more than a common school education, and he 
was obliged, at the age of twenty-one, to seek his fortune in the 
world. His mother's parting gift to him was a copy of the New 
Testament, which he cherished until his death, and his father 
urged upon him the wisdom of economy and thrift. His first 
money was earned by chopping wood in Londonderry, and his 
savings were invested in a piece of land in Manchester, situated 
near his father's homestead. The lot which he purchased was 
at that time covered with a heavy growth of timber, and on it 
are now located the Manchester gas-works. Both on the timber 
and on the land Mr. Young reaHzed a handsome profit. He 
subsequently bought a farm in North Londonderry, on which 
he built a large and commodious brick house, after the com- 
pletion of which he married Jane Hale of Manchester, N. H.. 
in March, 1S34, and settled on the farm. No children were 
born to them, but they ado];ted a daughter. Mrs. Young died 
Dec. 13, 1867. and on Dec. 24, 1S68, Mr. Young married 
F.meline Pettingill. He died June 27, 18.S5, aged seventy-nine 



years, his death, which was sudden and surrounded by rather 
tragic circumstances, being due to heart failure. While engaged 
in [licking cherries he fell from the ladder on which he was 
standing, and was taken up in an unconscious state. Mr. 
Young was prominent and active for years in the political life of 
the town, which he represented in the state legislature. He 
was generous to all, and of his bene\olence to the poor many 
instances are related. Among the mourners at his funeral were 
many whom his bounty had freely assisted in times of need. 
The following are abstracts from Mr. Young's will : 

Third — I give ami 1 eqiieath lo the Tnisltcs, and their successors in 
office, of llie Methodist Eiiiscopal Church in Loudondcriy, N. II , the sum of 
one thousand dollars in tiust, the annual income of which sum is to be applied 
by said trustees ar d their successors in office for the support of preaching in 
said church in said town. 

Ei.EVKNTH. — I hereby order, empower and authorize my Executor here- 
inafter named to sell by private sale or by public auction and convey all of the 
rest, residue and lemainder of my estate, whether real, personal or mixed, etc.. 




JOHN P. VOUNG. 

and to pay the same to said residuary legatees, as follows : . . . One 
half to the trustees and their successors in office of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church in said Londonderry, who are to hold the same in trust, and the 
annual income of the same is to be applied by said trustees and their succes- 
sors in office for the supjiort of preaching in said church in said I.ondonderiv- 



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ARTHUR T. LEARN ARD was born in 
Chester July 4, 1838, and was educated in the 
public schools and at Chester Academy. He was 
one of the first to respond to President Lincoln's 
call for volunteers, and at the expiration of his 
term of service he went to Derry, where he has 
since resided, making his home at the Lower 
Village, and for many years being engaged in the 
grocery business. Although Mr. Learnard never 
sought public office, his fellow townsmen elected 
him to the state legislature, and while a member 
of that body he secured a charter for the system of 
water-works now in operation, and soon after 
formed the company, removing the first shovelful 
of soil when ground was broken. He showed his 




Mr. Learnard has rendered valuable public service 
in beautifying the villages, a large number of the 
shade trees at the Lower Village having been 
planted by him, and in other ways his influence 
has always been felt in the promotion of the 
public welfare. 



/^OL. FREEMAN CORNING was born in 
^— -* April, 1803. His first wife was Miss Esther 
White, by whom 
he had six chil- 
dren, two of whom 
arc now living: 
John Anderson 
Corning of North 
Londonderry and 
Mrs. Hannah Cor- 
ning, wife of Wil- 
liam Corning, also 
of North London- 
derrv. Col. Cor- 
ning's second wife 
was Miss Laura A. 
Blaisdell. Three 
children were born 
to this union, one 
of whom now sur- 
vives, Mrs. Mary Ellen Wheeler, wife of Joshua F. 
Wheeler of Londonderry. Col. Corning died in 
June, i860. 




COL. FREEMAN CORNING. 



ARTHUR T. LEARNARD. 



nr^HE SINGERS AT THE FUNERAL of 
* Rev. William Morrison were not sent home 
hungry or thirsty. That good man died in 1818, 
after a pastorate of thirty-five years in the West 
I^arish, Londonderry, and his funeral was a note- 
worthy event. Among the records of the parish 
is the following : " Londonderry, March 12, 18 18. 
A bill for Refreshment that was prepared for the 
Singers on the present occasion : 5 quarts West - 
India Rum, $3.20; i pint Brandy, .40; 1 gallon 
Cyder, .20; 16 Pyes, $2; 100 Fryed Nuts, .75; 
5 lbs. Cheese, .63; i bunch of Cigars, .13; total, 
There is nothing in the records to 



interest in the town of his adoption by inserting a 

clause in the charter stipulating that at the expira- $7.31 

tion of ten years the town, if it so desired, might show the number of singers who partook of this 

purchase the water-works at their appraised value, luncheon. 



A CHAPTER OF TRAGEDIES. 

FOR a community of cosmopolitan character, 85 -86-87-88-89, Melvin J. Jenkins; 1890-91, 

Manchester, both as a town and a city, has 11. W. Longa; 1892, Michael J. Healy. The first 

been comparatively free from crimes of a serious board of police commissioners consisted of Isaac L. 

nature. Before Manchester began to take on the Heath, Noah S. Clark and Frank P. Carpenter, 

first signs of becoming a manufacturing place, the Upon the resignation of I. L. Heath, who suc- 

peace and dignity of the town was looked after by ceeded N. P. Hunt as judge of the police court in 

sherififs and constables, but on Oct. 26, 1839, the May, 1895, David Perkins was appointed his 

citizens of the town voted to establish a system of successor on the police commission, 

police, the selectmen appointing a board of police It is a remarkable fact that in a half a century 

consisting of Mace Moulton, Jacob G. Cilley, and more Manchester has been startled by only 

James Wallace, Henry S. Whitney, Nehemiah two premeditated murders. Other serious crimes 

Chase, Joseph M. Rowell, and Stephen C. Hall, have been few and far between. The first known 

Upon the incorporation as a city, a police court murder bv a citizen of Manchester was committed 

was established and a city marshal annually on April 4, 182 1, when Daniel D. Farmer assaulted 

elected thereafter. The "lobby," as it was termed a woman of hard character, named Anna Ayer, at 

in the early days, was for manv vears located in a house in Goffstown, by striking her on the head 

one corner of the basement of the city hall, the in a lit of anger. The woman died nine days later. 

city marshal having an office on the first floor, and Farmer was arrested, tried the following October, 

the police court being held in a room in Riddle's found guilty of murder in the first degree, and was 

block until 1857, when it was held in city hall hanged Jan. 23, 1822. 

building. The present police station (see page Sept. 24, 1829, Jeremiah Johnson, a member 

194), corner of Manchester and Chestnut streets, of the Manchester Rifle company, was killed by 

was built in 1885 at a cost of about $30,000, and Elbridge Ford in a fracas at the annual Goffstown 

the police department of the city ranks high for its muster. The soldiers had offended somegamblerson 

efficiency. Until 1894 the department was con- the muster field, a fight ensued, during which Ford 

trolled by the mayor and aldermen, but in that struck Johnson on tlie head with a club, fracturing 

year the jiolice commission was appointed by the his skull. Johnson died the next day. Ford was 

governor. The first justice of the police court was tried for manslaughter in October, 1840, sentenced 

Samuel D. Bell, and his successors up to the to state prison for five years, but was pardoned 

present have been : Chandler E. Potter, Isaac W. after three years. 

Smith, Samuel Upton, Joseph W. Fellows, John P. The most noted tragedy in the history of 

Bartlett, Nathan P. Hunt, and Isaac L. Heath. Manchester was the Parker murder, which was 

The first city marshal of Manchester, elected in committed on the evening of March 26, 1845. 

1846, was George T. Clark. Succeeding marshals Jonas L. Parker, who had been tax collector the 

up to the present, are: 1847, Daniel L. Stevens; year before, lived on Manchester street, near Elm. 

1848-49, Robert Means; 1850, Joseph M. Rowell; Late in the evening named a man called Parker to 

1831-52, D. L. Stevens; 1853-54, William H. his door and said that a Mrs. Bean wanted to see 

Hill ; 1855, Samuel Hall ; 1856-57-58, Henry G. him at Jancsville on urgent business. Parker 

Lowell ; 1859, I. W. Farmer; i860, John L. Kelly; accompanied the man up Manchester street to the 

1861-62, William B. Patten; 1863, John S. Old Falls road, then on the outskirts of the town. 

Yeaton ; 1864, Henrv Clough ; 1865, Benj. C. Soon after cries of murder were heard, but no 

Haynes; 1866, Henry Clough ; 1867-68-69-70- attention was paid to them. The next morning 

71-72, William B. Patten ; 1873, Gilman H. Kim- the dead body of Parker was found near the corner 

ball; 1874-75, Darwin A. Simons; 1877, C. C. of Manchester and Maple streets. There were 

Keniston; 1878, Daniel R. Prescott ; 1879-80, evidences of a terrible struggle. Parker's throat 

H. W. Longa ; 1881-82, A. D. Stark; 1883-84- was cut, and a butcher knife and razor lay by his 



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side. His pocketbook containing a large sum of 
money was taken. All signs indicated that two 
persons had been concerned in the murder. The 
town offered a reward of $500 and the state $1,000 
for the apprehension of the murderers, but no 
tangible clues were obtained until 1848, when Asa 
and Henry T. Wentvvorth, brothers, who formerly 
kept a tavern at Janesville, were arrested in Saco, 
Me., and charged with the murder. After a long 
examination, both were discharged. In May, 1850, 
they were re-arrested, together with Horace Went- 
worth of Lowell and one William C. Clark. They 



place. On Jan. 22 of that year, Dennis Shea, who 
lived in a block at 511 Elm street, struck his wife 
on the head with a flatiron, fracturing her skull, 
and causing her death two days later. Immediately 
after assaulting his wife Shea cut his throat with a 
razor and died in a few moments. The tragedy 
was caused by a family row. 

On March 17, 1872, John Burke and his wife 
became engaged in a drunken dispute in their 
house, corner of Elm and Park streets, during 
which he struck her on the head with a piece of 
cordwood, causing her death soon after. Burke 




ELM STREET, MANCHESTER. 



■LOOKING NORTH. 



were ably defended by Gen. Franklin Pierce and 
other noted counsel, and after a searching examina- 
tion, Horace Wentworth and Clark were dis- 
charged, and the two brothers held in $5,000 bonds 
for trial. The prosecution soon after decided that 
the evidence was not strong enough to warrant 
holding them, consequently the grand jury found 
no bill, the Wentworths were discharged, and the 
slayers of Jonas L. Parker remain unknown to 
this dav. 

The citv was remarkably free from tragedies 
from this time until 1872, when two murders took 



was tried at the court session in Amherst, found 
guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, and 
sentenced to fourteen years in state prison. 

Aug. 30, 18S0, a tragedy occurred in a house 
on Belmont street, East Manchester. Edgar F. 
Colburn, a young married carpenter, and William 
E. Beauregard, aged seventeen, were indulging in 
friendly sports, playing tramp and chasing each 
other around the house. In a thoughtless moment 
Colburn grabbed an old musket supposed to be 
unloaded, aimed it directly at Beauregard's throat, 
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fell dead in his tracks. Colbuin was indicted for 
manslaughter in the second degree, recommended 
to the mercy of the court, and sentenced to one 
year in state prison. 

Sept. 30, 1S80, Pierre Edward Powers, aged 
eighteen, Hung a ragged-edged, broken bottle at 
John Blanchard, aged twentv-three, which resulted 
in the latter's death in twenty minutes. Powers 
and some companions jostled against Blanchard, 
who pushed Powers down. They had some words, 
a bottle in Powers's pocket broke and neck was 
hurled at Blanchard, striking him in the jugular 
vein. Powers was at once arrested, held for man- 
slaughter, and sentenced to state prison for five years. 

Fifteen years elapsed before the fair fame of 
Manchester was again blotted by a crime in which 
a life was lost in consequence. In the evening of 
March 3, 1895, a drunken row took place at 34 
Middle street between James, commonly called 
"Slasher" Welch, and John O'Brien, a Milford 
man. Both visited the house of Welch's brother- 
in-law, where the tragedy occurred, and in the 
melee Welch threw O'Brien down stairs, jumped 
upon his body, fractured his skull, and inflicted 
injuries from which he died during the night. 
Welch was indicted for murder, but pleaded guilty 
of manslaughter in the second degree, and was 
sentenced, May 23, to eight years in state prison. 

The most cold-blooded tragedy since the 
famous Parker murder was enacted in the watch 
room of the police station at 1 1 o'clock in the 
night of May 21, 1895, when ex-Patrolman Fred A. 
Stockwell deliberately fired five shots at Sergeant 
Henry McAllister of the police force, three bullets 
hitting him and causing death in a few seconds. 
Stockwell had resigned from the force a week 
previously rather than suffer an investigation for 
neglect of duty, and had been drinking heavily and 
making threats against Sergeant McAllister, whom 
he suspected of reporting him for his misde- 
meanors. Stockwell had also been mixed up with 
several women, claiming that he was unmarried, 
and he charged McAllister with informing his 
wife concerning his infidelities. He had openly 
threatened, in the presence of police officers, to 
take the sergeant's life, but little attention was 
paid to him. His threats were regarded as the 
freaks of a high temper and not considered as 



serious. After the murder, Stockwell coolly said 
he was glad of it. He is now confined in the 
county jail awaiting trial. The line of his defence 
will be on the ground of insanity. The murderer 
is twenty-seven years old. 



WILLIAM T. MORSE was born in Chester 
Aug. 14, 1857. He received his education 
in that town, graduating at Chester Academy 
under Prof. Jacob T. Choate. He then taught 
school two years in Belmont, resigning his position 




WILLIAM T. MORSE. 



to accept a clerkship in C. S. Wilcomb & Son's 
store in Chester. In November, 1885, he married 
Miss Mary Little Currier, a granddaughter of 
David Dustin of North Salem. She is the sixth 
in direct descent from the noted Hannah Dustin. 
They have two children, Marian Ida, born Novem- 
ber, 1886, and Louis William, born November, 
1889. In May, 1889, Mr. Morse became literary 
editor of the Derry News, for which paper he had 
worked as general agent and correspondent from 
its inception. In the spring of 1889 he built a 
residence on Mt. Washington, near Derry Depot, 
where he and his family still live. 



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WIL LET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



MANCHESTER TOWN HOUSE OF 1841. 
— This building, begun in 1841 and com- 
pleted the following year at an expense of $17,000 
including the cost of the lot, was a brick structure 
with stone trimmings. Its dimensions were ninety 
feet on Elm and sixty feet on Market street. It 
was the second building used for town business, 
the previous one being an old structure at East 
Manchester, altered from a meeting-house and 
subsequently changed to a dwelling, which is still 
to be seen near the cemetery in that locality. The 
site originally selected for the town house was at 
the northwest corner of Merrimack common, but 
a chanpfc was afterward made to Elm and Market 
streets, as being more central for town business. 
The postoffice was 
located in the south- 
east corner of the 
building ; three stores 
and a printing office 
were also on this floor, 
with the main en- 
trance and vestibule 
on Elm street as now 
changed in the pres- 
ent building. On the 
second floor were two 
law offices and the 
town clerk's office, 
the remaining space 
being taken up by a 
fine hall sixty-three by 
seventy feet. The 

armory of the Stark Guards was in the attic. On 
the land north of the building, where the Patten 
block now stands, was a flourishing vegetable gar- 
den in which pole beans, corn, and cucumbers 
were cultivated with profit to the owner. 

This old town house, a most substantial struc- 
ture, had lan existence of only about three years, 
for it was destroyed by fire in August, 1844. The 
day before the fire the military company occupying 
the attic had been on parade, and two of the 
younger members were detailed to clean the mus- 
kets and store the remaining ammunition. About 
the noon hour the boys, in playing with some of 
the cartridges, marked figures on the floor with a 
train of powder and flashed them with matches. 



They had been gone from the building scarcely an 
hour when smoke was seen coming from the attic 
windows and an alarm of fire was sounded. The 
day was hot and drv, and the building was 
destroyed within an hour. It was surmised that 
the flashing powder, communicating with shavings 
beneath the single floor of the attic, had smould- 
ered there until the heat forced the fire into an 
open and rapid flame. The walls being of brick 
and the roof slated, the first crash was caused by 
the falling of the tower, with the bell, clock, and 
gilt eagle, the whole coming down at the same 
instant, straight into the cellar. The present 
building was begun soon after, and completed in 
1846. It has done good service for forty-nine 

years. The view of 
the old town house, 
herewith presented, 
was engraved by 
H. W. "^Herrick in 
1844 from a sketch 
made in the autumn 
of 1843. 




OLD TOWN HOUSE, MANCHESTER. 



IN the original char- 
ter granted in 
June, 1722, to the 
town of Londonderry 
in the name of George 
III. by Gov. Samuel 
Shute and the coun- 
cil was a provision 
requiring the " men 
and inhabitants to render and pay for the same, to 
us, our successors, or to such officer or officers as 
shall be appointed to receive the same, the annual 
quit-rent or acknowledgement of one peck of 
potatoes, on the first day of October, yearly, for- 
ever." The charter did not say what was to be 
done with the potatoes, but for several years they 
were turned over to Gov. Shute's representatives. 
Finally the payment was neglected, and there are 
now many bushels of potatoes due, according to 
the charter, from the town to some one. In 1863 
some wag created a small panic by starting the 
rumor that in consequence of its long neglect 
the town was to be deprived of its chartei The 
panic, however, was of short duration. 



WEST MANCHESTER IN 1768. 



BY REV. JESSE G. McMURPHY. 



''PHE old Indian trails from camping grounds tribes, and others stood in friendly relations that 

-» to fishing stands, and from tribal villages to permitted them to settle upon waste or unoccu- 

distant hunting regions, gradually became the pied lands quite apart from the laid out lands. 

white man's lines of communication. After the Consequently the records of towns and counties 

period of foot travel the same paths, with slight abound in references to older settlers whose names 

changes, were used for more frequent saddlebag do not appear in any charter. Some of these prior 

traffic, and eventually were laid out as highways, settlers were expelled forcibly, but generally a 

two or four rods wide, and fenced for stages and compromise was resorted to and the occupant 

other vehicles. From the earliest settlement of allowed to hold for life. 

white people on the Massachusetts Bay, almost The old Indian trail from the coast through 

exactly a hundred years before the occupation of Haverhill and Nutfield by Amoskeag Falls into 

Nutfield, it was known that well defined paths led the Connecticut valley was familiar to the colonists 

from the coast inland toward the northwest, before the charter of Londonderry was issued. 

There were famous sites for fishing along the The Amoskeag path became an established and 

Merrimack river, and several tribes of Indians laid out highway as soon as the land along its 

lived at intervals throughout the course of this course was allotted under the charter. The 

abundant storehouse of nature. Beyond, and inhabitants of the town learned from the Indians 

farther toward the setting sun, were immense of the abundance of fish at a place upon the Mer- 

tracts of country abounding in deer, moose, and rimack river known as Amoskeag Falls, and so 

bulTalo. With the increasing population of the important became the privilege of fishing in that 

Massachusetts Bay colony and the destruction of vicinity that the shores of the river were parcelled 

game in the forests and fish in the streams, the and sold for stands, designated by certain names 

Indians moved farther from the coast, but their in some way characteristic. The following tran- 

trails were followed closely by the aggressive script of such a document may be of interest to 

settlers. The Indian villages became trading posts the reader : 

and for some indefinite period presented the sin- 

, r 1 • • 1 1 •. 1 1 1 .1 Know all men by these iiresents that I Alexander Mac- 

gular appearance oi bemg; mhabited by both , r >.■,■• , ■ , r tt 

'^ "^ ' ^ ■' muriihy of W illiamsburg in the county of Hampshne and com- 

Indians and white people. The old Indians, monwealth of the Massachusetts, Gentleman, for and in con- 
incapable of earning a subsistence by hunting or sideration of the sum of five pounds lawful money to me in hand 
fishing, preferred to trust to the clemency and before the delivery hereof well and truly paid by Archibald Mac- 
favor of the white population rather than to go '""H^hy of Londonderry in the county of Rockingham in the 

j-^i ■, . •^i^i-^u 1 111 -"^i State of New Hampshire, Esq., the receipt whereof I do hereby 

farther inland with their tribes and probably perish , ,, , . ,, ., ,,, ,, 

^ -^ ^ acknowledge, have given granted bargained and sold and by 

of starvation and neglect. Many of the white th^.^ presents do fully, freely and absolutely give grant, bargain, 

men of adventurous habits became allied with the sell and convey and confirm unto him the said Archibald Mac- 

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murphy his heirs and assigns forever, all my right, title, interest, 
claim, challenge or demand which I have in the fishing place in 
Amoskeag Falls in Merrimack river, hereafter mentioned (viz) 
one fourth part of a place being between a place called the 
Pulpit and Sullivan's point on the easterly branch of the said 
river, and also one sixth pirt of a fishing place on the westerly 
branch of said river commonly called the Puppy Trap or Eel 
place, said fishing places are on an island in said falls. To have 
and to hold the said interest in said fishing places and all ap|jur- 
tenances thereto belonging to him the said Archibald Macmur- 
phy his heirs and assigns to his and their proper use and 
improvement forever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set 
my hand and seal this 29"' day of September A. I). 17S7. 



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LOCATION OF OLD FERRIES AND HIGHWAYS. 

N. B. Before signing the words (in Amoskeag Falls in Merri- 
mack river) in one place and in another place the word (place) 
and in another place the words his andj were interlined. 

Alexander Macmurphv. 

Signed sealed and delivered in presence of Elizabeth Patten 
Matthew Patten. 

Hillsborough Ss. Bedford September 29"' 1787. Alexan- 
der Macmurphy abo\-e named personally appeared and acknowl- 
edged the above instrument to be his free act and deed. 

Before Matthew Patten, Justice Peace. 



The positions of these fishing places are quite 
clearly defined in the deed. The grantor had 
occupied land along the shores from a much 
earlier date. He granted lands to Capt. John 
Stark in 1 760 and to Isaac Godfrey in the vcar 
1768, the date of IVIatthew Patten's survev. 

Referring to the map copied from the plan 
made by Matthew Patten, April 21, 1 76S, it will 
be noticed that the fishing places were located 
immediately above the site of Capt. John Stark's 
sawmill, and that the road passing south by the 
sawmill was the old river road coming in from 
Hooksett, following the course of the river about 
the line of the Boston & Maine railroad to the site 
of the old ferryman's house not far from the 
station. It will be noted that this ferry of God- 
frey's was on the line of the highways that led 
from Chester and Londonderry to Goffstown by 
the falls. South of the ferry the river road turned 
eastward from the river and lost the older name in 
being called the Nutt road. 

The Stark mills occupy the appro.ximate site 
of Capt. John Stark's sawmill and lumber yard. 
The Jefferson mills are between the house of 
Robert Boyes and the river. On the west side of 
the river where only one house was marked in the 
plan, the laid-out highway of i 768 is easily recog- 
nized as the present Main street of West Man- 
chester. The line between Bedford and Goffs- 
town which came to the river then has ceased to 
exist, the adjoining parts being absorbed in the 
city, but it serves to locate the position of the old 
gristmill on the opposite side of the river and the 
miller's house. Abraham Merrill's ferry formerly 
connected Derryfield and Bedford by a shorter 
route that became convenient and necessary with 
the growth of Bedford, being superseded eventually 
by a bridge. 

Whatever traditions people may have con- 
cerning the location of any of these old sites, the 
reader is advised to make use of scale and compass 
and ascertain exact relations rather than accept 
the authority of mere reports. The author of this 
plan of 1768 was a resident of Bedford and his 
descendants have given names to buildings in 
Manchester. 

Matthew Patten was a justice of the peace 
and surveyor, widely known for his interest in 



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public iiffairs, his hospitality, and his cultivation of 
literary tastes in the preservation of facts comino; 
under his observation from day to day in the form 
of a diary that was published after his decease. 
He was born May 19, 17 19, and died in Bedford 
Aug. 27, 1795. He was married to Elizabeth Mac- 
Murphv of Londonderry, July 16, 1750. She was 
a daughter of Squire John MacMurphy and was 
born Sept. 3, 1728. There were born to this mar- 
riage the following ten children whose histories 
are important in Bedford and adjoining towns : 
Susanna, who married Thomas Taggart : John, 
unmarried, killed in Canada war; James, killed in 
Indian war in Ohio; Betsey, married Hugh Tol- 
ford, her cousin ; Robert, married Jane Shirley ; 
David, unmarried; Mary, unmarried; Alexander, 



married Lydia Atwood ; Jane, unmarried; Sarah, 
unmarried. 

When old Squire John MacMurphy of Lon- 
donderry died in 1755 he left a will disposing of 
much property, both real and personal, besides that 
settled upon his heirs during his life. Among 
other items of the will are the following two: 
" My will is that my beloved son Alexander Mac- 
Murphy shall have twenty-five pounds new tenor 
paid him out of my estate in one year's time after 
my decease and apples sufficient to make five 
barrels of cider yearly and every year for the space 
of five years, and to my son-in-law Matthew Patten 
the same quantity of apples for the aforesaid time 
of five years after my decease and liberty to make 
each of them their apples into cider at my press." 






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LADIES PARLOR, I. O. O. F. HALL, DERRV DEPOT. 



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WIL LEY'S BOOK OF NUTFJELD. 



FRED LEONARD WALLACE, son of 
Frederick and Margaret Ann (French) Wal- 
lace, was born Jan. 23, 1839, in that part of Man- 
chester known as Piscataquog, then a portion of 
Bedford. His father, one of the pioneers of the 
city of Manchester, was employed in many im- 
portant capacities for the great manufacturing 
corporations in their early years. He was also 
prominent in politics, being a member of the 
board of aldermen in 1847. The son attended the 
city schools in his boyhood, and ^at the age of six- 




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FRED L. WALLACE. 



teen went to work in David McColley's bookstore, 
one of the well-known institutions of the day. 
Later he was appointed assistant postmaster under 
David J. Clark, brother of Hon. Daniel Clark, and 
during his term of office, from 1861 to 1865, the 
system of free delivery was established in Man- 
chester. In 1869 Mr. Wallace entered the service 
of Charles S. Fisher, the citv undertaker, who at 
the time was the only one in that business within 
a circuit of twenty miles. The city undertaker 
was then annually appointed by the board of alder- 
men as one of the regular municipal officers, the 



city owning the hearse and other property pertain- 
ing to the business. In company with Moses O. 
Pearson, Mr. Wallace bought out Mr. Fisher in 
1872, and the firm of Pearson & Wallace began its 
successful career. Upon Mr. Pearson's death, 
Hon. Alfred G. Fairbanks became a partner, and 
the firm name was changed to F. L. W'allace & Co., 
its present style. Mr. Wallace has always been a 
progressive man, seeking to develop the possibili- 
ties of his calling. Fitted by nature for its deli- 
cate and difficult duties, that require for their 
proper fulfilment not only kindness but tact, he 
has been a friend and comforter in many a be- 
reaved home, while he has also introduced into the 
undertaking art many improvements and practices 
that have become universal among undertakers. 
In a word, he has kept Manchester ahead of sister 
cities in all that pertains to his profession. Mr. 
W^allace was married, in 1861, to Josephine, 
daughter of Joel Fife of Pembroke, and four chil- 
dren — Fred A., Lulu B., George P., and Cyrus W. 
— have been added to the familv, all of whom are 
living except the last, who died at the age of four 
years and six months. Mrs. Wallace died in 1871, 
and in 1875 Mr. W^iUacc married Sarah E. White 
of Manchester, daughter of Capt. William W^hite 
of Portsmouth. He is a member of the First 
Congregational church, of Agawam Tribe of Red 
Men, and the Royal Society of Good Fellows, and 
is, withal, one of the most popular and progres- 
sive men of the Oueen Citv. 



A 



RELIC of the stone garrison built in Nut- 
field in 1723 is to be found in the under- 



pinning of the house owned by Joseph Gregg in 
Derry Village. On one of the stones constituting 
the foundation of the house were engraved a 
vine and an hourglass, and between them was : 
" 17. G. 23." Until within a few years the inscrip- 
tion was plainly visible, although the emblems — 
whatever they may have signified — have long 
since been effaced. The letter and figures indicate 
the initial of the builder's name, Capt. James 
Gregg, and the year of building. The stone was 
originally placed over the doorway of the stone 



orarrison. 



WINDHAM RANGE AT POLICY POND. 



BV REV. JESSE G. McMURPHY. 



IN 172S a fine area of about twelve hundred 
acres was laid out in the southern part of 
Londonderry between two beautiful ponds. One 
of these ponds in 
recent years has 
become famous 
as a summer re- 
sort, and the loca- 
tion of a station 
there on the line 
of the Boston & 
Maine railroad 
has facilitated the 
coming of numer- 
ous pleasure par- 
ties to the shores 
of this bodv of 
water once called 
Policy jK)nd, but 
n o w w i d e 1 y 
known as Cano- 
bie, with station 
and postoffice of 
the same name. 
The farms laid 
out in this range 
were planned ac- 
cording to the 
more general 
usage, being long 

and narrow, with the longest lines running north- 
west and southeast, and with slight variations in 
length fining the space between Policv and 
Cobbets ponds. The farm at the northeast end is 

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bCHUOLHOUSE IN UlblKlCl NU. 2. I.UNDoM'ERRN . 



characterized as the head of the range, and was 
originally allotted to the Rev. James McGregor as 
an amendment to his former grants. The present 

owner of this 
farm is Hon. 
Leonard A. Mor- 
rison, author of 
" Morrison Fam- 
ily," " History of 
Windham, " 
" Windham Cen- 
tennial Celebra- 
tion," " Norris 
Family," " Dins- 
moor F'amily," 
"Allison Family," 
"Rambles in 
Europe," and 
" S c o t c h - 1 r i s h 
Characteristics." 
He is a man who 
has done much 
for his townsmen 
and for the pre- 
servation of valu- 
alile historic facts 
in the town of 
Londonderry, in 
which his ances- 
tors were charter 
proprietors. Next to this farm were the amend- 
ment lands of James and John Morrison, the first 
now occupied bv Albert A. Morrison and the 
second bv OJivH'r G. Woodburv. The oriijinal lot 



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WILLErS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



of John Barr is now the property of John A. Park, more definite than was my last letter the other 
Georsje F. Armstrong occupies the farm laid out day. Exeter records would be the place to trace 

them." In proof of the original arrangement 
given in the map, the reader is referred to the 
following transcript : 



Londonderry October 23'' 1728. Then laid out to Samuel 
Allison eighty acres of land which is in full satisfaction for his 
amendment land and his twenty acres addition which land lieth 
southeasterly of Gobbets pond and is bounded on the west by 
a maple tree standing on the bank of the said pond, thence 
running northeasterly tliirty-nine rods to a stake bounding on 
said pond, from thence running southeast and bounding on John 
Barr"s land to a red oak tree marked and standing near Policy 
pond, from thence running southwesterly on Policy ])ond to 
a stake and stones which is the east angle of John Anderson's 
land and stands on a line running southeast bounding on said 
John Anderson's land from the bounds first mentioned, there 
being land allowed within said bounds for two roads across said 
land not exceeding six rods wide for both, when the town thinks 
fit to lay out said roads. Recorded this 2r' day of Jan'ry 
I7J3-34- Pr. John MacMurphy, Town Clerk. John Wallace, 
John .Archibald, John Mitchell, Committee. 

At a meeting of the proprietors and inhabitants of London- 
derry March 25"' 1732 the transcript of the aforesaid record was 
read and approved of for the aforesaid Samuel Allisons and his 
heirs for ever. Per John MacMurphv, Ttm'ii C/fik. 

Londonderry October 23'' 1728. Then laid out to John 
Anderson, weaver, forty-two acres of land which is full satisfac- 
tion for nine acres of amendment his home lot wanted, and two 




to Samuel Allison. These five farms are identified 
by Mr. Morrison, and from him 
chiefly the identification of the 
remainder is obtained. In the rela- 
tive positions of the sixth, seventh, 
and eighth farms there is a conflict 
of testimony. I quote from a letter 
of Mr. Morrison : " I once owned 
about half of John Stuart's farm. 
The range road divides it, and his 
old cellar is on the half owned b\ 
my relative, Albert Morrison, as 
pasture land. He may have owned 
another piece. Once some fort3'-six 
acres in this piece. There is no 
room between his place and that 
of Samuel Allison. Allison's farm 
was sold to Mr. Park and where 
Park's house stood was some twenty- 
five rods from John Stuart's. The 
bounds of the farms have changed, 
of course, and 1 cannot write any 




HOLMES HOUSE, UERRV DEPOT. 



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259 



acres of his home lot, and twenty acres of addition, said land 
lying by Cobbets pond and is bounded as followeth : (viz) 
beginning at a white oak tree which is William Humphrey's 
corner on said pond, thence bounding on said pond northerly to 
a maple tree which is Samuel Allison's west corner, thence bound- 
ing on said Allison's land to Policy pond to a stake and stones, 
thence bounding on said pond to a stake and stones, thence 
bounding on said Humphrey's land northwest to the pond first 
mentioned which tract of land is twenty rods and a half wide. 
Note that there is land within said bounds for two highways 
across said land reserved for the use of the town, one four rods 
wide and another U\o rods wide, when they think fit to lay them 
out. Recorded this 
23'' day of januaiy 
1729-50. Pr. John 
MacMurphv, 'I'own 
Clerk. John Wallace, 
lohn Archibald, John 
Mitchell, Committee. 

At a pro]irietors' 
meeting held at Lon- 
donderry April 17"' 
1729 the aforesaid 
return was read and 
approved of by the 
town for the aforesaid 
J h n A n d e rson 's 
proper use, benefit 
and behoof in fee. 
Attest per 

John MacMurphv, 
Town Clerk. 

Londonderry Octo- 
ber 22'' 7728. Then 
laid out to William 
Humphrey fifty-si.x 
acres of land which is 
the amendment and 
twenty acres of addi- 
tion which his home 
lot was allowed said 
land lying southeast- 
erly of Cobbets pond, 

bounded on the west by a dry oak tree marked standing on said 
pond, from thence running southeast to Policy pond and 
bounding on John Stewart's land to a stake and stones, from 
thence running northeast twenty-seven rods to a stake and 
stones bounding on Policy pond, from thence running northwest 
and bounding on John Anderson's land to the pond first men- 
tioned to a white oak tree marked, from thence running south- 
westerly on said pond to the bounds first mentioned. Note 
there is land within said bounds for two highways running across 
said land reserved for the use of the town, one four rods wide 
and the other two rods wide, when they think fit to lay them 
out. Recorded this 2"'' of March 1733 34. Pr. John MacMur. 
phy, Town Clerk. John Wallace, John Archibald, John Mitch- 
ell, Committee. 




\\. a meeting of the proprietors of Londonderry September 
13"' 1733 the return of the aforesaid record was read and ap- 
proved of for the aforesaid William Humphrey's use and his 
heirs forever. Attest pr. John MacMurphv, Tmcn Clerk. 

Londonderry 9*"" 11"' 1728. Then laid out to John Stew- 
art thirty four acres of land which is full for his satisfaction of 
his amendment and twenty acres addition. Said land lieth 
southerly of Cubages pond and is bounded on the west by a ma- 
ple tree marked, from thence running south east and bounding 
on John Barr's land to Policy pond and bounding northeasterly 
on said pond to a stake and stones from thence running north- 
west and bounding on Samuel Allisons land to a swamp to a dry 

oak tree marked, from 
thence running south- 
tt esterly to the bounds 
first mentioned, there 
being,] land; allowed 
within^said^bounds for 
two cross roads not 
e.xceeding six rods 
wide. Recorded this 
fourth day of Jan'-'' 
1728-29. Pr John 
MacMurphv Town 
Clerk. John Wallace, 
John Archibald, John 
Mitchell, Committee. 
At a proprietors 
meeting held at Lon- 
donderry Nov' 10"' 
1728 the return of the 
aforesaid record was 
read and approved of 
by the town for the 
said John Stewart's 
use benefit and behoof 
in fee. 
.\ttest Pr 

John MacMurphv, 
lawn Clerk. 



NEW schoolhouse, derry depot 



The proof of 
the order of the 
map seems conclusive with the single exception of 
a name which may have been overwritten in the 
fading lines of the old records, and thus made to 
correspond with the modern tradition of the old 
Stewart cellar. Especially is the identification of 
original order noted in the dry oak tree marked, 
that is a common bound for both John Stewart and 
William Humphrey. Perhaps John Anderson ex- 
changed with John Stewart and occasioned this 
subsequent order. 

Mr. Morrison writes that " Wdliam Hum- 
phrey's land is included in farm of Joseph W. 



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WTLLETS iSOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



Diiismoor; John Anderson's land (meaning- the 
farm of John Stewart in the map) is included in 
the farm of Jacob Myers; John Barnett's land is 
now Isaiah W. Haseltine's ; William Nichols' land 
is included in farm of George N. Noyes; Rohert 
Wear's land now in B. F. Senter's farm ; Archibald 
Clendennen's land was at the base of Senter's hill 
going from Canobie lake to Gobbet's pond." In 
this part of the range it is quite evident that the 
original order of the allotments has been altered 
and probably so far back that traditions alone 
cannot determine the correctness of the plans 
adopted, and only an exhaustive treatise compiled 



from town records and old deeds rc(]uiring vears 
of patient toil could establish the certainty of 
many controverted facts of lines, bounds, and even 
residences. It is greatly to be regretted that the 
plans of the town of Londonderry or Nutiicld, 
originally made, however fragmentary and crude, 
have not been preserved. Great care has been 
taken to secure accuracy in this map, ar\d in order 
that the student may have easy access to the 
material for certifying to the correctness of the 
plans, the numbers of pages in \"olume II of the 
town records are given for reference in the lower 
right hand corners of each lot. 




INTERIOR I. O. O. F. LODGE ROOM, DERRY DEPOT. NOBLE GRANd's CHAIR. 



ECHO LODGE, I. O. O. F. 



ECHO LODGE, NO. 6i, I. O. O. F., was $4,000 and $5,000 being expended for these pur- 

institutcd at Masonic liall. Deny, April 17, poses. Since then electric lights liave been put in, 

iS;q, bv tiie Grand Master, Luther F. McKinney. and an addition has been built upon the rear of the 

with eight charter members, eleven others l)eing block, adding a new banquet hall, which with the 

initiated the same evening. The numt)ers had old one will seat 230 guests, and a parlor which the 

doubled bv Jan. i, 1880, and in Ma)- of that year Rebekahs have handsomely furnished. (Seepage 
the lodge took pos- 



ted 
odffe 



session of the new 
hall in Pillsbury & 
Hardy's block, Derry 
Depot, and remained 
there until the fire 
of Aug. 19, 1882, 
which destroyed 
most of the lodge 
property, including 
the lodge records. 
The 175th regular 
session was held on 
the night of the fire 
at the residence of 
the Noble Grand, 
Gilman A. Wheeler. 
The lodge then re- 
moved to Masonic 
hall and remained 
there a little over 
two years. Mean- 
while a site had been 
purchased and the 
handsome and com- 
modious block, 
valued at $7,000, 
erected at Derrv 
Depot, which has 
since been the home 
of the lodge. This 
hall was first occupied Sept 




ODD FELLOWS BLOCK, BEFORE THE ADDITION WAS BUILT. 



-\S5-) The 
loom is now e(]ual in 
all respects to any in 
the state. Notwith- 
standing the changes 
of location. Echo 
Lodge has enjoyed 
gratifying prosperity. 
Fitting and ample 
paraphernalia for all 
the work of the de- 
grees have been pur- 
chased ; the debt on 
the building is com- 
parativelv small ; re- 
ceipts for rent are 
sufficient to liquidate 
it within a few years. 
Mizpah Rebekah De- 
gree Lodge No. 15, 
an auxiliary of Echo 
Lodge, is one of the 
best in the state out- 
side the cities. It 
numbers 255 mem- 
bers, and has been a 
great factor in the 
prosperitv of Echo 
Lodge. The total re- 
ceipts from all sour- 
ces, includina: fairs. 



5, 1884, and was rents, and ordinary revenues, to January, 1896, 

dedicated by the Grand Master, Lewis A. Mai- have been $23,223.84. The total amount paid for 

vern, Dec. 11, 1884. The 500th regular session relief has been $5,255.19. The estimated value of 

was fittingly celebrated at Bell's Opera House the lodge property, including cash on hand and 

Nov. 15, 1888; up to this time the lodge, then indebtedness, is $14,130.27. The membership 

numbering 127 members, had omitted but one June 30, 1895, was 181. Mystic Encampment, 

regular session for any cause. In 1889 the hall a branch of Echo Lodge, has a membership of 

was refitted and refurnished, and steam heat was 55, and is in a prosperous condition. fSee portrait 

introduced into the entire building, between of Prof. E. R. Angell, Noble Grand 1895, p. 175.) 

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.^jl.e^^'^'**'" 




INTERIOR I. O. O. F. LODGE ROOM, DERRY DEPOT. VICE GRANd's CHAIR. 





ADAMS FEMALE ACADEMY BOARDING HOUSE. 
Now "The Elms," East Derry. 



HORACE Greeley's birthplace, 

Antrim, N. H. 



WILLErS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



2(,'. 



UPTON POST, NO. 45, is named after Lieut, of the charter members: David S. Clark, James 
Georo;e E.Upton of Derry, N. H., who en- H. Crombie, Charles H. Cumminpjs, Isaiah A. 
listed as a^private, Nov. 28, 1861, in Co. G, Sixth Dustin, James Evans, Charles F. Fields, Isaac N. 




o 



New Hampshire Volunteers, and was promoted to Hunt. Francis Owens. A. A. Prcssey, Cxcoige 
f^rst lieutenant Oct. 30, 1863, and was killed near Richards, C. M. Tilton. George B. Tutt e. Henry 
Petersburo- Va Julv ;o. 1864. The post was C. Vining, Caleb F. Whidden, and Amos M. 



chartered Sept. 4, 1879. 



Following arc the names 



Young. 



Number of members, thirty-four. 



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MISS LAURA A. HAYNES, TEACHER. 



OLD SCHOOLHOUSE, DEKRY DEPOT. 
1S94. 



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MISS GEORGIETTA KNIGHT, TEACHER. 



HF. AND H. T. WHEELER, sons of Charles 
F. and Adeline (Gregg) Wheeler, were born 
in the " Kilrea district," Deny, Horace Franklin 
March 5, 1868, and Henry Thaddeus Mar. 24, 
1870. Their mother was the daughter of Benja- 
min and Lucy (Danforth) Gregg, who lived for 
some years on the turnpike near the bridge over 
Westrunning brook. Their great-grandfather 
Danforth was for many years landlord of the old 
Danforth Tavern, which still stands on the corner 
in Deny village, and is now occupied bv James 



Huntee. H. T. Wheeler serves the Boston & 
Maine railr(jad, Derrv Depot, in the capacity of 
baga-affe master, and H. F. as freight clerk. 



JH. FLETCHER was born in Berlin, Mass., 
• Oct. 29, 1867, and began work for the Bos- 
ton & Maine Railroad in 1887. He was married 
Nov. 7, 1 89 1, to Miss M. J. Haynes, of Bedford, 
Mass. They have one daughter, Beatrice A., born 
Oct. I, 1892. Mr. Fletcher came to Deny April 
20, 1893, as station agent. 






HENRY T. WHEELER. 



HORACE F. WHEELER. 



H. FLETCHER. 



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265 




PAN I EL J. I)AI.^^ 



QEQRGE W. KACHHr.DKRS HOUSE. EAST DERRV. 



266 WILLEV'S BOOK OB NUTFIELD. 

FREDERICK H. DODGE was born in South streets, a member of the committee 
Boston, Mass., Dec. 17, 1870, and received and of several others of minor impo 
his education in the pubhc schools of Boston and 
of St. Albans. At the age of sixteen he began his 
business career with the Central Vermont railroad 
at Proctor, Vt., leaving that place after a few 
months to accept a more lucrative position with 
the Boston & Maine railroad at Windham Junc- 
tion, in the capacity of station agent. Resigning 
in the fall of 1891, on account of ill-health, he 
spent five months in California and in travelling 
through the western states. He then returned to 
railroading and assumed charge of the freight 
business at Rochester, N. H., until, at the request 
of the superintendent, he accepted a position in 
the latter's office at Nashua. In the spring of 
1892 he returned to his former position at Wind- 
ham Junction, where he has since remained. Mr. 
Dodge was married, Dec. 15, 1895, to Miss Mmnie 
E. Mooers of Lawrence, Mass. 



on city farm, 
rtance. Mr. 



GEORGE W. REED, the son of James and 
Rebecca (Major) Reed, and the eldest of 
eight children, was born in Derrv Jan. 6, 1849. 
In 1869 he went to Manchester and secured em- 
ployment in the Amoskeag xAxe Factory. After 
a year's work here he entered the service of Crane, 
Leland & Moodv, shoe manufacturers, and in 1875 
he set up in the hack and livery business for 
himself and is at present engaged in the same 
business. Nov. 22, 1870, Mr. Reed married Miss 
Sarah E. Nelson, daughter of John P. and 
Sarah C. Nelson of Candia, and of this union five 
children have been born, of whom Lenna Mae, 
born May 27, 1877; Hattie Eunice, born Feb. 23, 
1 88 1, and Albro Parker, born Aug. 13, 1885, now 
survive. In politics Mr. Reed is a staunch Repub- 
lican, and has always been an active worker for 
that party. In 1888 he was elected to the com- 
mon council from Ward 3, and re-elected in 1890. 
In 1892 he was elected to the board of aldermen 
from Ward 3, serving on the committees on 
streets, electric lights, accounts, claims, and cit\- 
farm. He was again elected to the board of 
aldermen for 1895-96. Under the present 
administration he is chairman of the committee on 




GEORGE W. REED. 



Reed is a charter member of Passaconnaway Tribe, 
I. O. R. M., and a member of Security Lodge 
No. 8, A. O. U. W. 



DANIEL J. DALV was born in Londonderry, 
Aug. 1, 1872. He entered Pinkerton i\.cad- 
emv and at once became prominent as a debater 
and public speaker, winning a prize two years in 
succession. In 1891 he entered business as junior 
partner in the firm of John Daly tS: Sons, market 
gardeners, remaining with the firm until the spring 
of 1895, when he was elected a member of the 
board of selectmen. After completing the spring 
duties of his office, he began the study of law with 
C. J. Hamblett of Nashua, where he has since 
remained. It is his intention to enter the law 
school of Boston University in 1896. He is a 
member of the Church of the Immaculate Con- 
ception of Nashua, and in politics is an earnest 
Republican. 



TAVERN STANDS AND STAGE LINES. 



THE tavern existed in Nutfield from the earliest Samuel Barr, a noted landlord, kept a tavern 

days, and, like the frontier stores of the in the early days on the Barr homestead, a short 
West, served several purposes. It was primarily distance southeast of the First meeting-house, 
a storehouse for rum, brandy, gin, tea, coffee, Philip Nowell for many years entertained the 

sugar, molasses, snuff, and tobacco, all of which public, and particularly a numerous class of retired 
were in constant demand, and many persons sea captains, at his hostelry situated south of the 
gathered at the store at evening. It was the meeting-house. All the buildings have been 
centre of intelligence and conviviality and was removed, and no house now occupies the site, 
visited by strangers in search of employment or He opened his tavern soon after the close of the 
persons on business from other towns. The Revolution. 

nocturnal discussions at the taverns were not The Boynton tavern still stands on the turn- 

always calm and dispassionate, and it is said that pike, a few miles south of Deny Village, with 
a dispute occurred one night at one of them in accommodations for fortv or fiftv guests. Seventy- 
the turbulent times before the Revolution between five years ago there were many travellers on the road, 
a Britisher and a colonist. After having drunken and regular stage communication, when the season 
the men wa.xed fiercer, until the friends of both and weather permitted. Horses were changed at 
became excited and a fight ensued, in which the this tavern, and the passengers obtained lodging 
Britisher was killed. Without ceremonv the body and refreshment. 

was carried to the graveyard and hastily buried, The Fisk tavern stands a short distance from 

and the tragedy was soon forgotton in the greater the one last mentioned. It was patronized by a 
struggle that was imminent. 

Among the earliest landlords worthy of men- 
tion was Col. Stephen Holland, who kept the 
public house at the old centre of the town, near 
the meeting-house first built. He was a surveyor 
and captain, and one of His Majesty's justices of 
the peace and a trusted officer of wealth and 
iiilluence. His homestead extended from his 
tavern, in the present East \"illage, to the shores 
of Beaver pond. As a man conversant with the 
plans and purposes of the home government. Col. 
Holland was regarded with suspicion by his neigh- 
bors, and in vain did he attempt to curry favor with 
them and at the same time hold office under the 
king. He was finally proscribed by the provincial 
government and escaped to the old country with 
such propertv as he could convert into money. 
In 1797 he was living in "Coolifiney in the countv 
of Londonderrv and kingdom of Ireland," and 
brought a suit against an estate in Londonderry, 
N. H., to recover the value of a note of hand and 

damages to the amount of $150. The note had line of stages running from Lowell to Kingston, 
been given March 18, 1775, for fifteen pounds Exeter, and Portsmouth, while the Boynton 
lawful money, by James McMurphy, who died tavern was for the accommodation of the lines 
before the suit was instituted. (See " London- running from Haverhill to Concord. For some 
derry Tories," page 208.) years it was owned and managed by Mr. Willey, 

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HOTEL BRADFORD, DERRY DEPOl. 



1S94. 



i68 



WILLErS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 





ALliKKT J. WILLEV, 
Piii|.rii;u>r Hotel Bradftirc!, 1S83-1S91. 



MRS. A. J. WILLEY. 






CHARLES F. WILLEV. NELSON S. WILLEV. 

VVilley Brothers, Proprietors o£ Hotel Bradford, i8yi-!8y4. 



WiLLETS BOOK: OF NuTFIMLD. 



269 



and was known as the Willey House. It is 
evident from the size of these buildings that the 
stage business was very lucrative at some period 
in the past. 

On the Mammoth road there was a tavern at 
North Pelham, sometimes called the Foster 
tavern, where the stages stopped for change of 
horses. It was kept for manv years by Jesse 
Gibson, justice of the peace, jiostmaster, and 
deputv sheriff, who also did a general retail 
business in West India goods. It is remembered 
that Andrew Jackson, while on his presidential 
tour through New Hampshire, stopped with Land- 
lord Gibson on returning from Concord to Mas- 
sachusetts. He was accompanied by the governor 
of New Hampshire and part of his council as far 
as the state line. 

Cram's tavern was a few miles farther north 
on the Mammoth road, and was built especially 
for the boarding and entertainment of the public 
and as a meeting place for conversation over the 
pipe and bowl, rather than for the accommodation 
of the stages. It is still standing, in a good state 
of preservation. 

Plummer's tavern, situated a few miles still 
farther north on the Mammoth road, was also 
more adapted to the wants of boarders and visitors 
than to the needs of a stage line. The mail was 
changed here, and a few minutes given to the 
passengers to patronize the bar. This oUl hostelr\ 
still stands at the corner where the Derrv and 
Nashua road crosses the Mammotii. 

White's tavern, in the northern part of Lon- 
donderrv, furnished accommodations for fifty 
horses, and was one of the places between Lowell 
and Concord where the stage horses were kept. 
It was also a storehouse for groceries and provi- 
sions, Reuben White, the landlord, buying liberallv 
at Portsmouth and luinging immense loads ui 
goods from that place with his own horses. This 
tavern is now occupied by Mrs. Ro.xana Corning 
and daughter Alice, and just over the way lives 
Henry White, the son of the old landlord. (See 
page 188.) 

Hotel Bradford at Derry Depot has been a 
noted house from the beginning, and has been 
managed with varying success under limitations of 
patronage. Its proprietors have been : Woods, 



A. B. Smith, A. J. Willey, Willey Bros. (C. F. and 
N. S.), and F. A. Benson. 

Richard Melvin kept a public house many 
vears in Derrv Village in the building now known 
as Hildreth hall. He was succeeded at the tavern 
bv manv who aie well-known citizens, including 
John Sanders, Newell and William Crowell. 

There were other well known hotel men in 
old Londonderrv, conspicuous among them being 
Franklin Tennev, who served an apprenticeship 
with his uncle, Jesse Gibson, at the store and 
tavern in North Pelham, and is now proprietor of 
the National Hotel, Washington. 




01, 1) I'.APIISL' CHURCH, LONDONDKRRS'. 




THE JAMES .MCMURPHY HOUSE, DERRV. 



THREE QUARTER MILE RANGE.— II 



DIRECTLY south of the original Three Quar- 
ter Mile Range (see page 213) lies a small 
territory that was called the Half Mile Range, on 
account of the breadth measured from the old 
Haverhill false line of 160 rods. For some 



ruptedlv for more than a century. On the north 
of this farm, and between it and the homestead of 
Daniel McDuffee, was a lot laid out to the right 
of David Cargill, and another to the right of Col. 
Walton, but the rights of these two proprietors 



reason, however, the range was never subdivided were sold to Squire MacMurphy and are not 



and remained 
almost as origi- 
nally laid out 
to Squire John 
MacMurphy, 
excepting that 
his son Alex- 
ander, to whom 
he gave it, 
bought the 
other quarter 
of a mile of 
James Adams 
in 1728, thus 
restoring t h e 
full breadth of 
the 240 rods. 
South of this 
farm the re- 
m a i n i n g lots 
were of the full 
measure from 
east to west, 
down to the 
short ran g e 
that runs with 
a headline abut- 
ting upon the 
lower side line 
of the east lot. 
The MacMur- 
phy farm was 
very rugged 
and stony, por- 




represented in 
the map. The 
lot of Col. 
Walton is now 
known as the 
Adams place, 
and James 
Adams had a 
house there at 
the time the 
highway w a s 
laid out from 
Gov. Shute's 
farm to Haver- 
hill along the 
false line. As 
James Adams 
is not named 
in the charter, 
he was conse- 
quentlv either 
a purchaser or 
he claimed un- 
der the Haver- 
hill grant. John 
Cross at one 
time owned the 
farm laid out 
in I 722 to Wil- 
liam Nichols 
and extending 
east and west 
at tile north 
ends of the 



tions of it rising to an elevation that commanded Dock farms; the next farm above, laid out in 1723 
a view of the Atlantic ocean, and making a to William Humphrey, was called the Old Con- 
suitable site for government surveys. The greater tinental lot, and was owned at one time by James 
part of this farm is now in the possession of H. P. Choate, father of George I. Choate; the farm next 
Weeks, who bought it of the Warner familv about above, laid out to the original rights of Samuel 
twenty years ago, they having occupied it uninter- and John Moore, was called Stony Park, and next 

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271 



came Brandy Rock fann, so called from a rock 
on the highway where liquor was drunk and the 
bottle broken. John Cross sold the Nichols farm 
to Henrv and James Taylor in 1824. Robert 
Kennedy's name is mentioned rather indehnitely 
in the records as occupying lands in connection 
with the immense grants to Gov. Wentworth. 
The Kennedy land joined the Morrisons, and both 
came into the possession of the Taylor family, 
Matthew Taylor purchasing, in 1732, the land 
upon which his great-grandson, J. Calvin Taylor, 
now lives. The two Morrison brotlicrs were 
blacksmiths. In 1720 two lots, containing ninety- 
two acres, were laid out to Rev. James McGregor, 
his land being bounded on the east by that of 
James McNcal, who was so molested by the 
Haverhill trespassers that the selectmen gave him 
another lot. 



BOUNDARY LINE CONTROVERSIES.— 
The boundaries of the several plantations 
included within the limits of the Mason grant 
(see page 84) and subdivided by numerous later 
deeds, of which the Wheelwright deed (see page 76) 
is a specimen, were only established after many 
years of controversy, and in few, if any, instances 
were the lines fixed where the grantors and 
grantees had placed the bounds. It is impossible 
to establish a single corner bound of the old deed 
of Nutfield, and yet the wording of the description 
is as complete as that of any conveyance of 
modern times. As the southwest corner of Ches- 
ter is the bound of commencement in the Wheel- 
wright deed, it is necessary to ascertain wheie 
that corner was supposed to be in 1719. At the 
time the people of Nutfield were seeking to obtain a 
deed, their neighbors were also asking for a similar 
grant about eight miles square, and it may be 
inferred that the Chester people, who were not 
emigrant settlers, but speculators from Ports- 
mouth, Dover, Hampton, Newbury, and other 
towns, believed that eight miles square of territory 
included all the waste land between the Merrimack 
on the west and Exeter and Kingston on the east, 
and from the Isle of Hooksett falls on the north 
to Dunstable, Dracut, and Haverhill on the south. 
It is quite evident thai no waste land actually 



existed outside the territory of eight miles square 
which the Chester speculators were trying to 
secure. At various times the people of Tyngs- 
borough revived these old claims to land east of 
the Merrimack, as far north as Amoskeag falls, 
and carried their grievances to the General Court, 
to be defeated in the end as to the main point, but 
satisfied in general by some compromise. Jona- 
than Butterfield of Chelmsford was found occupy- 
ing a large farm and living in grand style at a 
place which may be located as near Plummer's 
corners, in Londonderry, but he was not required 







to vacate his possessions, the Nutfield committee 
giving him the farm in 1721. His name remains 
to this day associated with certain localities, as 
Butterlield's rock, Butterfield's meadow. Butter- 
field's farm. 

The excitement in Chester was great when it 
was learned that the Scotch-Irish colony of Nut- 
field had obtained from some one a deed of land 
equal to ten miles square, and the Chester specu- 
lators immediately proceeded to increase the 
amount of their claim from eight to ten miles 
square, and urged upon the governor and council 



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to hurry the confirmation of their grant. When country to expel the intruders by force if neces- 
they measured ofif their lands from the supposed sary. Not frightening the encroachers away, they 
boundaries of Exeter and Kingston ten miles into next built a fence all the way around the chest- 
the country, the Merrimack was still a long dis- nut country included in the Chester grant, 
tance westward of them, and as the Nutfield deed The charter of Chester antedated that of London- 
extended all the way from the southwest corner of derry, but both documents were made with refer- 
Chester to the northwest corner, and westward to ence to the quarrel, so that no further misunder- 
the Merrimack, there was a general complaint that standings should arise. 'Ihe accompanying map 
the intruders had seized upon everything and cut by James Betton shows where the Chester line in 
off all approach to the valual)lc fishing grounds i 766 crossed the Cohass brooks. 

that were yearly becoming more profitable. Natur- 

ally the title to this coveted land began to be OLA\'ER\' was not unknown in Londondcn\- 
questioned and the possibilities of legal objections ^ before the Re\olution. According to the 
scrutinized with the utmost jealousy. Judged census of 1773 there were twelve male and thir- 
from the standpoint 
of the times it ap- 
pears clear that the 
Chester people had 
a real grievance, 
and the Nutfield 
settlers had occa- 
sion for anxiety. 
Fortunately foi 
both parties, the 
boundaries of ad- 
joining plantations 
on both the east 
and the south were 
materially changed, 
greatly to the ad- 
vantage of both. 
Exeter corner was 
established several 
miles farther east, 

the Haverhill and Kingston lines were moved It is related of a negro bo) 
away, Dracut and Dunstable retreated, and there was the property of Mr. Wallace and who had 
remained abundance of land for two townships of cost his master one hundred dollars, that he 
ten miles square each. But the occupation of the was very proud of his money value. Once in 
entire bank of the Merrimack from the Isle of the spring freshet he built a raft and went to ride 
Hooksett falls to Dunstable was not to be allowed, on the flowed meadow of the fourteen-acre 
and the continual fomentation of spirits already meadow brook. Flis frail craft, not being solidly 
agitated led to a settlement of the quarrel that made, began to go to pieces, and Toney, having in 
was more nearly just to both towns, although it view both his own life and his master's property, 
curtailed the fishing privileges immensely and shouted to Mr. Wallace: "Come and save your 
practically deprived both parties of any real hundred dollars." Soon after the Revolution 
property in the river. The Chester people con- slavery ceased in most of the northern states, and 
tinued to petition the General Court, and at the there is no record of slaves being owned in Lon- 
same time sent armed men into the Nutfield donderry after the beginning of the present century. 







teen female slaves 
in the town, and 
they seem to have 
been regarded as 
chattels, not as 
human beings, al- 
though they were 
humanely treated. 
Rev. Wm. David- 
son, minister of the 
East Parish, owned 
two, a mother and 
a daughter, named 
Poll and Moll. In 
the West Parish, 
Thomas Wallace 
and Deacon James 
Thompson, both 
very devout men, 
were slave owners, 
named Toney, who 



SHRIEVALTY OF HILLSBORO COUNTY. 

COL. DANIEL F. HEALY, sheriff of Hills- county in 1874, he served in that capacity until 
horo county, was born at Cedarburg, Wis., 1884, when he was elected to the office of sheriff, 
Dec. 20, 1849. His parents, Cornelius and Mary which position he has since occupied. In his 
Healy, were natives of Ireland who emigrated to official position Sheriff Healy has won the confi- 
America in 1845 and settled first in Manchester, dence and esteem of both bench and bar. Faithful 
where they were married in 1848, removing the to all his duties and to the trusts confided to his 
same year to Wisconsin, where they remained care, his efficiency and integrity are commended 
until the father's untimely death in 1850. The by judges and lawyers alike. He has always been 
widowed mother and son then returned to Man- a member of St. Anne's church, the oldest Catholic 
Chester, where he has ever since resided. She parish m the city, and his numerous social and 
died in 1854, leaving her only child to the care of fraternal connections include the Grand Army, 
his grandfather, Daniel Healy. The lad attended the Foresters, the Knights of Columbus, the Elks, 
the public schools in the old Bakersville district the Amoskeag Veterans, and the Derryfield Club, 
until the age of eleven, when he went to work in His title of colonel was obtained by service on 
the Manchester Mills, and for the succeeding years Gov. Goodell's staff in 1889-90. He was married 
divided his time between work and attending the in 1878 to Mary A., daughter of Timothy Sullivan 
old Park-street grammar school. In Februar)^, 1864, of Manchester, and four children, three of whom 
when onlv fourteen years of age, he enlisted as survive, were the fruit of this union : Daniel F., Jr., 
drummer boy in the Sixth New Hampshire Regi- James C, and Arthur S., aged respectively sixteen, 
ment, but through the persistent efforts of his fifteen, and twelve. Mrs. Healy died in 18S5, and 
grandfather and the latter's counsel, Hon. Cyrus in September, 1893, Col. Healy was married to 
A. Sulloway, the runaway boy was, by special Sarah J. Carbery of Peabody, Mass. 
order of the war department, discharged and sent Deputy Sheriff Harrison D. Lord was born in 
home. The military spirit of the young soldier Barnstead Dec. 23, 1825. Coming to Manchester 
was, however, not so easily daunted, and a second in 1844, he learned the machinist's trade and was 
time he went south and made himself useful by employed by the Amoskeag company until 1865. 
attending to the wounded in camp and on the He was then elected city messenger and held the 
battlefield. In 1866 he bound himself for three office for five years, serving also as constable in 
years as apprentice in the machine shop of the the meantime. He was appointed to his present 
Manchester Mills, and during all his apprentice- position in 1876, and from that year until 1885 
ship he attended evening school and a business was also deputy sheriff of Rockingham county, 
college. Having served his time, he worked at Gov. Currier appointed him to the office of 
his trade of machinist in the Manchester Locomo- coroner, which he still holds. Mr. Lord was a 
tive Works, and in 1870 entered the employment member of the legislature in 1870, and for eight 
of Varne\f & Nichols, machinists, remaining with years has been on the board of assessors. He was 
them until 1874. His skill at his trade received married in 1854 to Miss Juliette True of Centre 
recognition in his selection, together with Wil- Harbor, who died, leaving two sons : Harry T., 
Ham F. Barrett, to put into operation the Cheney born May 7, 1863, and Samuel J., born Sept. 14, 
paper mill at Henniker, and in his special emplo}'- 1869. In February, 1875, he married Mrs. Susan 
ment upon the knitting machines for the works of Beane of Manchester, who died in July, 1877. 
ex-Gov. Smyth at Hillsboro Bridge. His political Deputy Sheriff William J. Starr, son of 
career began in 1874 with his election to the state William and Joanna (Cronin) Starr, was born in 
legislature; in 1876 he was a member of the Man- Manchester April 20, 1863. After graduating 
Chester common council, and in 1888 he was an from the scientific department of Dartmouth Col- 
alternate delegate to the Republican national con- lege in 1884, he engaged for a number of years in 
vention. Appointed deputy sheriff for Hillsboro the banking ant! investment business in the West. 

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April I, 1895, he was appointed deputy sheriff. 
He is a member of St. Anne's church and of 
the Knights of Columbus. 

Deputy Sheriff Frank T. E. Richardson, son 
of Reuben M. and Mary A. (Sanborn) Richardson, 
was born in Chester April 26, 1841. Coming to 
Manchester in early youth, he was graduated from 
the high school, and for several years he was 
employed m various capacities by different corpora- 
tions. In September, 1862, he became accountant 
in the office of the Amoskeag Manufacturing 
Company and filled that position with marked 
fidelity for twenty-eight years, resigning in 1890 to 
accept the paymastership of the Stark Mills, 
where he remained four years. In January, 1894, 
he was appointed deputy sheriff, and has since 
devoted himself to the duties of that office. He 
has been a member of the legislature, supervisor 
of elections and for many years a member of the 
school board. Mr. Richardson is prominent in 
Masonry and Odd Fellowship. He was married 
in 1863 to Mary C, daughter of Merrick and 
Eusebe (Gerry) Houghton of Sterling, Mass., and 
three daughters have been born to them. 

Deputy Sheriff Thomas Hobbs was born in 
Manchester March 4, 1868. His father, Hon. 
Edwin H. Hobbs, was at the head of the civil 
engineering department of the Amoskeag Manu- 
facturing Company for many years and was a 
state senator. After two years at Dartmouth 
College, Mr. Hobbs was engaged in business for 
several years, and Jan. i, 1895, was appointed 
deputy sheriff. 

Deputy Sheriff Joseph N. St. Germain was 
born in Sherbrooke, Province of Quebec, Sept. 2, 
1870, and graduated from the Sherbrooke Univer- 
sity in 1889. He came to Manchester in 1890 
and was secretary of the Littlefield Drug Company 
until February, 1895. In April of the same year 
he was appointed deputy sheriff. Mr. St. Germain 
has the reputation of being the most expert 
swordsman in New Hampshire, having perfected 
himself in the art of fencing in Paris. 



it should be made in the records. This is the 
entry he made, and it is the only authentic account 
which has been handed down of that memorable 
event: "on tusday nobr ye i8th 1755 at foure 
aclock in the morning and ten minets there was 
an Extrornary Shock of An Earthquaik and con- 
tinuous afterwards with smaller shocks." 



A LEXANDER McMURPHY was born in 
^ Londonderry Dec. 9, 1813, in the house 
where he now lives. He received a common 
school education, with the addition of a W\\ terms 




ALEXANUER MCMURPHV. 



T^HE EARTHQUAKE SHOCK on Nov. 18, 

1755. was so severe in Nutlield that Moses 

Barnett, the town clerk, felt that some mention of 



at Pinkerton Academy. He learned the carpen- 
ter's trade, and being verv clever in the use of 
tools, he was secured bv his brother-in-law, Jacob 
Chickering, in Andover, Mass., to work in his 
piano factory. When he was twenty-one years of 
age, his father offered him the homestead if he 
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paying certain sums of money to his sisters, and chains, wheels, rollers, and screws. Buildings were 
give a bond of maintenance for the support of his loaded upon wheels and moved with ox teams 
parents. He accepted the conditions and returned several miles. On one occasion he moved a two- 
to Derry in 1835. In addition to carrying on the story building, a dwelling house 40 x 24, from Derry 

village to Manchester. 

In the spring of 1855 Mr. McMurphy's barn 
was burned, with one horse, four cows, and four 
oxen, without any insurance. 

Mr. McMurphy was twice appointed a justice 
of the peace. He has not served in many town 
offices, a few years as road surveyor, school com- 
mitteeman, or commissioner, being his only service. 
In 1870 he made an unfortunate sale of wood 
and timber, and was involved in a lawsuit for the 
recovery of the price. The case was continued 
through many years with the best legal counsel, 
the expenses of the counsel and fees amounting to 
sixteen hundred dollars, and although he secured 
a verdict in his favor and execution for a judgment 





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MRS. SARAH A. (GlBSONj MCMURPHY. 

farm, he took an active part in the building of the 
First Congregational church. He became a work- 
ing member of the society, and joined the church 
and choir, experiencing warm delight in the 
regular attendance upon all his duties, and 
the family pew was constantly filled with the 
members of the household, which was large in 
those days. Alexander McMurphy served in the 
companies of militia training in Derry and neigh- 
boring towns, and was promoted to a lieutenancy 
Jan. 23, 1836, by Gov. Wm. Badger. 

April 25, 1844, he was married in Pelham, 
N. H., to Sarah A. Gibson, daughter of Squire 
Jesse and Sarah (Atwood) Gibson, the ceremony 
being performed by Rev. Cyrus W. Allen. 

Mr. McMurphy found opportunity to add to 
his small income upon the farm by taking up the of over seven thousand dollars, there was nothing 
business of moving buildings, in which he was found to levy the execution upon, and he has 
quite successful. He purchased, for raising and never recovered a dollar ; the claim now amounts 
moving buildings, a complete outfit of blocks, to a small fortune. This was his second 




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great loss, but it did not overwhelm him. He 
has been a vigorous fighter for his rights 
and has seldom been free from the entangle- 
ments of the courts throughout more than half a 
century of active life. He fought for principles 
and not gain. Once he might have obtained the 
full amount of his claim by giving two hundred 
dollars to his opponent's counsel in that seven 
thousand dollar suit and he refused, even when his 
faithful companion offered to advance the money 
on the moment for the sake of settlement. 

Once again, in his seventy-seventh year, he 
made another unfortunate sale and was drawn into 
endorsing accommodation paper beyond and out- 
side the value of the timber sold, until the banks 
felt compelled to close upon him, and soon 
covered everything that he possessed or held with 
writs of attachment, and it seemed as if he could 
not redeem liis pledges; but he made no com- 
promise and paid one hundred cents on a dollar, 
although it left him land poor and in debt. 

The record of births in this family is as follows : 

Jesse Gibson, a sketch of whom is given elsewhere ; Eliza 
Jane, born June 19, 184S, died Feb. 3, 1S58: Angeline, born 



her accomplishments, handles the artist's brush with delicate 
effects and has produced some pleasing pieces. 



A LEXANDER McMURPHY, son of James 
-'» McMurphy, was born March 21, 1768, 
in Londonderrv. His father at that time owned 





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Oct. 16, 1852, died Jan. 9, 1S54; Sadie, born Feb. 24, 1855, 
died May 17, 1855 ; Emma Caroline, born Dec. 20, 1857, died 
Aug. 10, 1S65 ; Hannah Jane, born July 30, i860, who graduated 
at Pinkerton Academy in iS8t, and has lived at the homestead 
with her parents ever since, cultivating domestic arts for the 
comfort of the house, and although disclaiming any merit for 



ALEXANDER AND SALLY (dUNCAN) MCMURPHY. 

the farm and eventually also the two farms 
next on the southeast, and when Alexander 
married he took up his residence in a log 
cabin that stood near the brook, on the farm 
originallv laid out to the right of Abram Holmes. 
The farm between was the one laid out to Samuel 
Morrison, and that where Alexander McMurphy 
was born was laid out to David Morrison. The 
Morrisons deeded to Alexander's father March 14, 
1767. Alexander received no more education 
than the common school afforded in pioneer times, 
when one term in a year was scarcely assured, and 
when money or teachers were wanting, children 
were taught at home or sent to the minister to 
learn to read and write. Alexander developed a 
trading faculty, and was enabled to improve his 
lands and increase his resources by peddling 
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was married Feb. 2, 1797, to Sally Duncan, daugh- 
ter of John and Hannah (Henry) Duncan, Rev. 
William Morrison performing the ceremony. In 
a few years from the time of going into the log 
house, down by the brook, Mr. Mc Murphy was 
able to make an addition to his house of one room 
and an attic. It was not until 18 10 that the 
present house was built, after six of his children 
had been born in the log cabin. Mr. McMurphy 
attended church in Londonderry and had his arm 
chair and square family pew in the old meeting- 
house that stood on the hill cast of the Hardv 




JOHN ALEXANDER MCMURPHY. 



place. He died Dec. 26, 1S53, leaving a will dated 
Oct. 26, 1848, and his widow, who was six years 
younger, lived until Feb. 10, i860. Nine children 
were born to them : 



([) James, born Nov. 22, 1797. He obtained a good rudi- 
mentary education, which he supplemented by extensive reading. 
His health not being very firm, he taught school for several 
years, travelled more or less, and engaged in various light occu- 
pations. April 12, 1842, in his forty-fifth year, he was married 
to Miss .Sarah A. Reid of Londonderry, the officiating minister 
being Rev. David Brainerd Sh'e was born in that town June 
14, 1809, and in her childhood had lived in the family of David 



Gilcreast and also with her uncle, David Reid. At the age of 
seventeen she obtained employment in the family of Deacon 
James Pinkerton, her wages being fifty cents a week and board. 
Notwithstanding the smallness of the sum, she resolved to lay 
the foundation of a system of economy that should enable her 
to acquire a' fortune, and at the end of two years she had taken 
up so little of her wages that there remained fifty dollars of her 
money in the deacon's possession. This money she loaned to 
David Gilcreast, and the interest on it was sufficient to buy her 
a new pair of shoes every year. Leaving the deacon's family, 
she went to Lowell and found employment in one of the mills, 
where she continued her economical plan of living. When she 
had saved two hundred and fifty dollars she invested it in five 
shares of the Concord railroad and later purchased four more 
shares. Good fortune attended her investments, and her income 
was re-invested so that she realized a com])etence in her old age 
and was able to distribute about seven thousand dollars at her 
decease. After remaining in Lowell a few years she returned to 
Londonderry and taught school several terms before her mar- 
riage. As her husband had received a homestead they began 
their married life under favorable circumstances. Two children 
were born to this marriage: (a) Henry Jame.s, born Sept. 26. 
1843, student at Pinkerton Academy, graduated from Dartmouth 
College in 1867, taught school in Danvers, Mass., Auburn, Lon- 
donderry, and Fitzwilliam, and died March 3, 1S68. from an 
affection of the lungs. \h) Abbie Frances, born Feb. 25, 1S47, 
graduated from Pinkerton Academy, taught in the public schools 
of Lawrence five years and died Feb. 3. 1875. Bereft in their 
old age of both their promising children, the home of Mr. and 
Mrs. James McMurphy became very desolate. They continued 
to live in the memory of the past until death reparated them in 
the decease of the husband, Jan. 28, i88r. His widow survived 
him fourteen years, her death occurring Dec. 25, 1894. By the 
provisions of her will she bequeathed a thousand dollars to the 
Episcopal Orphan's Home at Concord, the residue of her estate 
going to found three scholarships in Dartmouth College in 
memory of her two children and herself. 

{2) John Duncan, born July 3, 1800 : he was a school- 
master, and when a young man went to the West and South, hi 
May, 1834, he married Sarah Elizabeth C)esterlein, a Moravian 
nun of Bethlehem, Penn., a descendant of the Huguenots. One 
child, John Ale.xander, was born to Mr. and Mrs. McMurphy, 
July 9, iiS38, in Hunterdon county, N. J. Mrs. McMurphy died 
Nov. 26, 1849, and in October, 1852, Mr. McMurphy 
married Sophie Rhinehart, of an old Dutch family. He 
divided his time between teaching and farming, and on the 
death of his second wife, without issue, Dec. 12, 1870, the home 
was broken up, and Mr. McMurphy removed to Plattsmouth, 
Neb., to live with his son. There he died March 13, 1877. 
John Alexander, the son, attended Pinkerton Academy. He 
has been a man of wide experience, clerking in New York city, 
and on the frontier of civilization in Nebraska in 1857. While 
fighting a prairie fire he lost the sight of one eye. He enlisted 
in New York several times without being able to pass the 
examination, until he finally joined Kilpatrick's Mounted 
Rifles and was accepted. His army experience was full of peril- 
ous adventures, and at the close of the war he returned to 
Nebraska and became a journalist. He has owned several 



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papers in succession, including the Blair Times, Plattsniouth 
Herald, Schuyler Sun, Wahoo Wasp, Hoof and Horn, and 
Beatrice Times. Mr. McMurphy has held various state offices. 
At one time he received forty acres of land for a prize essay on 
" Resources of Nebraska." He married Hattie Dakin, a news- 
paper correspondent, and has no children. 

(3) Benjamin, born May 19, 1803 : died Oct. 21, 1S25. 

(4) Hannah, born Jan. 3, 1806 : died Jan. 21, 1839. 

(5) Mary, born A]3ril 4, 1S08. She was married to 
Nathaniel Corning of Litchfield, April 7, 183 1, Rev. Edward L. 
Parker officiating. They lived many years in North London- 
derry and in Manchester. Seven children were born to them : 

(a) Infant, born March 10, 1S32, lived only a few hours. 

(b) Alexander, born April 26, 1833 : lived at Goffe's Falls and 
at Moor's Ferry : built 

a house at North Lon- 
donderry ; moved to 
Manchester and be- 
came an auctioneer 
and real estate agent : 
bought part of the 
old White Tavern 
place in North Lon- 
donderry and moved 
there : was moderator 
in Londonderry many 
years and a represen- 
tative in the state 
legislature : died sud- 
denly of heart failure 
on the train coming 
from Manchester to 
North Londonderry, 
Dec. 12, 1S93. He 
was married Feb 9, 

1854, to Roxana 
Bryant and had four 
children: Elmira N.. 
born Nov. 7, 1854, 
died Jan. 22, 1856 : 
Roxana B., born Oct. 
15, 1856, died Oct. 

25, 1856; Alice M., born July 9, 18 -,9, unmarried: S. Jennie, 
bom Nov. 15, 1S61, married David F. Perkins Feb. 13, 1S84, 
Dr. Spaulding officiating : children : AUce Bertha, born March 
19, 1885 : Marion, born May 9, 1S94. (c) Benjamin Henry, 
born July 15, 1835 = worked on a farm and in a piano factory at 
Andover, Mass.: married Martha Mashure July 3, 18^4, and 
settled in Littleton ; has been deputy sheriff, insurance agent, 
collector, representative of the Boston & Maine railroad, assignee 
for merchants, etc. ; had two children : Nellie Adelaide, born 

1855, married William Mclntyre (children: Erma, Nathaniel, 
and Lewan), and Henry Granville, born in i860, (d) Nathaniel, 
Jr., born Feb. 9, 1839 = ^'^^ druggist in Manchester, and a shoe 
dealer in Boston ; built a shoe factory at North Londonderry 
and carried on a large business there for several years ; died 
June 9, 1878. He married Susan Toleman Aug. 1, 1867, 




ALEX.-iNDER CORNING, 




and had one son, Harry N., born March 19, 1871, who married 
Annie Simmons Perry at Trenton, N. J., Oct. 18, 1893. 
(e) Samuel, born Dec. 3, 1S40: was a clerk in the commissary 
department of the United States army and a bridge builder 
in Lowell : married Elva Ingram and lives in Somerville, 
Mass.; has no children. (f) George W., born Aug. 21, 
1843; died Sept. 5, 1844. (g) Mary Caroline, born Feb. 
25, 1 85 1 ; married George Payne of Londonderry, Aug. 24, 
1S76, Rev. Cyrus Wallace of Manchester officiating : lives 
at Derry Depot : had three children : Ethel Maude, born 
May 8, 1877, Harry Nathaniel, born Jan. 31, iS"'4, Ronald, 
born March 8, 1S92, died March 11, 1S92. Nathaniel Corning, 
Sr., was born July 17, 1S04, and died in Manchester Aug. 
14, 1S69. His widow, Mrs. Mary (McMurphy) Corning, died in 

North Londonderry 
April I, 1893. 

(6) Sarah Jane, 
born Aug. 7, 1810; 
was brought from the 
old log house by the 
brook in a cradle to 
the new^house on the 
hill; educated at 
Adams Female Semi- 
nary ; taught school at 
Andover : married, 
Nov. 26, 1835, Jacob 
Chickering, piano 
manufacturer, of An- 
dover, who had an 
extensive business be- 
fore the war. He 
was born Aug 2, i S06, 
and died March 31, 
1887 ; His widow died 
April 25, 1893. Their 
children were : (a) 
Milton, born Aug. 5, 
1838 ; died June 17, 
I S94 ; worked at piano 
making and carpentry: 
married Lucinda 
Brown Nov. 23, 1S54, and Fanny Barnard Oct. 5, 1885. (b/ Emily, 
born July 5, 1840; married Charles .M. Abbott of Andover, Dec. 
25, 1872. (c) Augusta, born iMarch 11, 1842; died Sept. 20, 
1845. (d) Caroline, born Nov. 25, 1844: died June 4, 1853. 
(e) Otis M. A., born Nov. 27, 1S46 : fitted for college and 
graduated from Dartmouth in 1869; an excellent classical 
scholar, and for many years tutor in New York city ; has been 
acting pastor in various Congregational churches, but never 
completed his theological course ; has written some good verses ; 
was never married, (f ) Samuel, born July 5, 1849 = salesman 
and merchant in Boston and New England towns ; residence in 
Andover : never married ; administrator of his aunt's and his 
mother's estates. 

(7) Alexander, Jr., whose sketch is given elsewhere in the 
present work. 




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(8) Alice Henry, born Sept. 6, 1816: educated at Adams 
Female Seminary : was a teacher and companion in Andover ; 
by prudence earned and saved over four thousand dollars ; 
never married : died Feb. 25, 1892, leaving a will dated Sept. 
14, 1 889. 

(9) Ehza, born June 17, 1S21 : educated at Adams Female 
Seminary: taught school many years in Massachusetts and made 
her home with her sister, Mrs. Chickering ; died unmarried, 
Sept. 4, 1855. 



nPHE OLD HILL GRAVEYARD.— The 
•I following poem was written by Frank M. 
Bagley, Derry Depot, 1895 : 

E'en as of old, a calm, sequestered spot, — 
'\\'liat sweeter refuge from corroding care ? — 

The changes which a century hath wrought 
Have left few traces of their jjassage there. 

No modern innovations yet have thrown 

The glamor of the new about the old. 
The spirit of the past dwells there alone. 

In sweet communion with the deepening mold. 

E'en to this day a rude enclosure pressed 
On flank and rear by tangled thickets deep ; 

Rank grasses, by the gentle winds caressed. 

Crown the rough sod "neath which the fathers sleep. 

Nature hath decked her own with richest store ; 

Wild woodland flowers and ferns and mosses spring 
From these old mounds, with rude stones leaning o'er. 

To which a century's growth of lichens cling. 

O'er cropping ledge and moss-grown bowlder trails 

The clinging tendril of blackberry vine : 
With vigorous growth the tangled wild grape scales 

The leaning birch and stunted pasture pine. 

Since the first clod was turned in that lone spot, 

Since Wallace to his rest was laid away. 
No more enduring triumph hath been wrought 

Than that which speaks from those old graves today. 

The triumjih of the pioneer who leads 

The van of human effort, and who stands 
Untrammelled at the fount of human needs. 

And gives the world the labor it demands. 

The triumph of the conquerer, whose might 

Hath tamed wild nature, and prepared the way 

For human progress to maintain the right 
Of brain and brawn to undisputed sway. 

That spot is hallowed by the honored dust 

Of those who sowed that other hands might reap. 

What garnered treasure held in sacred trust 
Is half so precious as the one we keep ? 



THE BAPTIST CEMETERY.— This place 
of burial, located in the northwestern part of 
Londonderry, took its name from its proximity to 
the house of worship of the Baptist society, 
although it has been called the Corning cemetery 
from the large number of persons of that surname 
once living in the vicinity. Forest Hill Cemetery, 
near the First Parish church in Derry, was some- 
times called the Presbyterian graveyard, and the 
Londonderry graveyard, near the centre of the 
Second or West Parish, was called the Second 
Presbyterian or the Shiplev graveyard. In 
gathering the names of the persons buried in 
the Baptist Cemetery, the same care has been 
taken as in the other yards to preserve as far as 
possible every indication of relationship, and 
groups have been made, occasionally interrupting 
the alphabetical arrangement, otherwise faithfully 
observed : 

Andrews, Jennie B. (wife of Alvah Andrews) died March 
3, 1871, aged 20 )TS 10 mos. 

Annis, Sampson died Oct 24, 1861, aged 35 vrs 9 mos; 
Matthew P. died April 22, 1S65, aged 36 yrs : Jesse died May 31, 
1879, aged 85 yrs g mos 24 dys : Mildred (wife of Jesse) died 
Nov I, 1S55, aged 55 yrs 7 mos : John died April 21, 1871, aged 
So yrs 6 mos 9 dys ; Delilah (wife of John) died Sept 29, 1S53, 
aged 56 yrs 7 mos ; Betsey C'oburn (second wife) died Nov 19, 
1894, aged 92 yrs 9 mos 16 dys. 

Ballou, Alexander McGregor died June 1 2, 1 854, aged 49 
yrs 8 mos ; Edward (son of Ale.x''" McG. and Susan M. Ballou) 
died July 8, 185 1, aged 9 mos. 

Barker, Sarah Jane (wife of John W. Barker) died Aug 21, 
181 8, aged 21 yrs. 

Blodgett, Joshua died June 10, 1843, aged 63 yrs; Sarah 
Vickery (wife) died Sept 19, 1S63, aged 83 yrs : Zilpah M. (dau) 
died Dec 22, 1836, aged 26 yrs. 

BovcE, John G. died Feb 3, 1873, aged 60 yrs ; Robert 
died May 5, 1846, aged 43 yrs 11 mos; Persis G. (wife) died 
March 5, 1875, aged 74 yrs ; children: Reuben, died April 27, 
1844, aged 18 yrs 5 mos; Robert M., died Apr 26, 1872, aged 
29 yrs 10 mos; Jacob G. died Dec 31, 1834. aged 7 yrs ; 
Clara M. died Apr 28, 1832, aged 4 yrs 6 mos; Suel W. died 
Sept 13, 1S38, aged 14 dys; Mary Ann C. died June 19, 1S42, 
aged 5 yrs 7 mos; William died Feb 21, 1886, aged 59 yrs i mo ; 
Ebenezer died Sept 19, 1849, aged 43 yrs 11 mos; William died 
Aug 18, 1S51, aged 84 yrs : Lydia (wife) died March 3, 1840, 
aged 80 years ; William died July 5, 1849, aged 75 yrs : Betsey 
(wife) died Nov 18, 1843, aged 71; Benjamin died March 11, 
1849, aged 59 yrs 2 mos 14 dys ; Sally (wife) died Aug i, 1874, 
aged 86 yrs; Jeremiah M. died July 15, 1849, aged 22 yrs 6 dys ; 
Horatio N. died July 16, 1849, aged 15 yrs g mos 18 dys ; May 
Frances (only child of E. AV. and Annis Boyce) died Oct 5. 
1853, aged 2 yrs 2 mos 5 dys; William M. died Dec 20, 1879, 



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aged 69 yrs 3 mos 9 dys : Betsey (dau of Wm. J. and Hannah 
M. Boyce) died Apr 28, 1848, aged 6 mos; Clarence A. died 
Sept 27, 1857, aged 10 mos ; Jennette died July 14, 1862, aged 

2 wks ; Dervy M. died March i, 1863, aged 11 yrs 2 mos. 

Brickett, Charles died Nov. 28, 1855, aged 30 yrs 9 mos. 
Caldwell, Joseph died Nov 24, 1854, aged 83 yrs ; Mary 
(wife) died Sept 2, 1845, aged 72 yrs. 

Center, Benjamin L. died May 25, 1S82, aged 62 yrs 

3 mos 23 dys; Abigail (wife) died May 23, 1859, aged 31 yrs 
I mo : George (son) died Aug 18, 1857, aged 8 mos. 

Chase, Simon died Dec 27, 1864, aged 73 yrs 6 mos-, 
Huldah (wife) died April 11, 1878, aged 86 yrs 5 mos 21 dys: 
John died June, 1S44, aged 53 yrs: Peaslee M. died Jan 15, 
1854, aged 48 )TS ; Emery M. (son of John M. and Hannah F. 
Chase) died Aug 21, i860, aged 7 yrs i mo 14 dys ; Amasa K. 
died May 20, 1883, aged 50 yrs i mo 12 dys ; Simon Jr. died 
April 2, 1851, aged 27 yrs; Simon F. (son of Simon Jr. and 
Emily A. Chase) died Feb 19, 1851, aged 5 mos: Emily A. (dau 
of same) died April 28, 1S51, aged 8 mos: Huldah E. (dau of 
same) died March 21, 1851, aged 4 yrs ; Annis M. (wife of John 
Chase) died Feb 6, 1851, aged 20 )rs : Frances M. died March 
15, 1859, aged 72 yrs 11 mos : Lovina J. (wife) died March 12, 
1S56, aged 59 yTs 4 mos ; Isaac died Sept. 21, 1869, aged 69 yrs : 
Elizabeth (wife) died A])ril 19. 1894, aged 78 yrs 9 mos : 
Ephraim (their son) died Aug 4, 1846, aged 2 yrs 3 mos 2t dys : 
Mary W. died Sept 6, 1891, aged 78 yrs 8 mos : Daniel died 
Feb 1 S, 1 S45, aged 79 yrs : Sarah died April 3, i '40, aged 68 yrs. 

Cheney. Thomas died June 7, 1864, aged 75 yrs ; Sarah 
(wife) died March 24, 1&62, aged 73 yrs ; Louisa (dau of Thos. 
and Sarah Cheney) died Nov 27, 1S51, aged 26 yrs 9 mos : 
Hannah Jane (wife of R. P. Whittemore) died Sept 17, i.'-'46, 
aged 32 yrs. 

Chip.man, Martha (wife of Ebenezer Chipman) died March 
8, 1S42, aged 58 yrs. 

Clark, William died iune 6, 1S50, aged 29 )ts ; Arcannah 
(dau of Wm. and Sarah M. Clark) died Jan 2, 1850. aged 1 r 
dys : Charles A. (son of C. R. and .Mary A. Clark) died Sept 6, 
1848, aged 2 yrs: Charles G. (son of same) died Dec 15, 1854, 
aged 3 yrs. 

CoBURN, Isaac died June 11, 1S63. aged 90 yrs 3 mos ; 
Sarah (wife) died March 11, 1S66, aged 77 yrs 8 mos ; Elder 
Daniel G. born Dec 31, 1799, died Sept 26, 1S63 ; Roxana B. 
(his wife) born April 26, 1803, died Jan 5, 1892 : Sarah (wife of 
Isaac Blodgett) born Jan i, 1767, died Sept 19, 1847 : Belinda 
Jackson (dau of Betsey G. Coburn) died Sept 22, 1841, aged 
19 yrs; Martha died Sept 17, 1852, aged 48 yrs 11 mos : Han- 
nah (wife of Joel Coburn) died Aug 10, 1856, aged i7 \rs ; 
Joel died Jan 24, 1887, aged 75 yrs 20 dys : Harriet F. (wife of 
Joel Coburn) died Oct 1 1. 1877, aged 57 yrs 5 mos 23 dys. 

Colby, Sally (wife of William) died July 6, 1849, aged 48 
yrs 8 mos ; Margaret died Oct 28, 1879, aged 82 yrs 3 mos 9 dys ; 
also her father and mother, Ela and Jane Colby. 

Corning, Peter died Ajjril 8, 1874, aged 80 yrs : Lydia (his 
wife) died July 28, 18S7, aged £0 yrs 9 mos : Samuel A. (son of 
Sylvester R. and Sarah J. Corning) died Dec 21, 1S72, aged 
3 yrs 6 mos : Nettie I. died Jan 28, 18S0, aged 5 yrs : Susie M. 
died Dec 13, 1883, aged 6 yrs : George W. (son of P'reeman and 



Esther Corning) died Oct 5, 1835, aged 3 yrs; also Ehas R. 
died Oct 12, 1835, aged 5 yrs ; Col. Freeman died June 19, i860, 
aged 57 yis : Laura A. (his second wife) born July 5, 1816, died 
Oct 26, 18S3 ; Esther (his first wife) died March 16, 1846, aged 
39 yrs ; Esther A. (dau of Freeman and Laura A. Corning) 
died Sept 23, 1847, aged 10 weeks; Esther F. died Oct 30, 1851, 
aged I >T : Charles F. died Jan 7, i866, aged 27 yrs 6 mos 9 dys; 
John died July 18, 183^7, aged 71 yrs ; Sally (wife) died Aug 17, 
1840, aged 67 yrs ; Seth E. (son of John and Sally Corning) died 
Dec 7, 1836, aged 24 yrs; Nathan died Oct 19, 1842, aged 66 
yrs : Nathan died July 24, 1841, aged 2,2, yrs ; Nelson died Feb 4, 
1842, aged 27 yrs : Samuel died March 13, 1869, aged 70 yrs 
4 mos: Clarissa (his wife) died Jan 10, 1853, aged 48 yrs ; 
Martha R. (their dau) died April 27, 1837, aged 4 yrs : William 
died March 8, 1837, aged 30 yrs : Mary (his wife) born July 25, 
1 80S, died Oct 29, 1890 ; Capt. Samuel died July 12, 1S36, aged 
68 yrs : Mary (his wife) died Sept 5, 1813, aged 75 yrs; Samuel 
died April 22, 1852, aged 51 years: Rachel (his wife) died Dec 
5, 1852, aged 49 yrs 

Dana, Lucinda (wife of Jonathan Dana) died Sept 23, 1845, 
aged 39 yrs. 

Davls, Paul died Ian 23. 1859, aged 59 yrs 2 mos; 
Susan A. (his wife) died June 13, 1S79, a-ged 82 yrs 6 mos. 

Drew, Ambrose Orlo (son of Rufus and Sarah Drew) died 
Nov 26, 1844, aged i \'r 10 mos. 

Emery, Sarah M. born May 15, 1823, died Dec 30, 1891. 
P'landers, Priscilla (wife of R. W.) died April 16, 1869, 
aged 26 yrs 4 mos. 

Fling, William (son of William M. and Susannah Fling) 
died Nov 26, 1845, aged 28 yrs. 

Gardner, Charles N. (son of Stephen and Mary Gardner) 
died Aug 30, 1879, aged 30 yrs 7 m3S. 

Gillingham, Thomas W. died Jan 12, 1 851, aged 39 yrs ; 
Andrew Miinnen (son of Thomas W, and Emily S. Gdlingham) 
died Feb 21, 1818, aged 4 yrs 20 dys; Emily S. (wife of 
Thomas W. Gillingliam) died May 12, 1882, aged 70 yrs 11 dys. 
Goodwin, Dca. Caleb died Nov 14, 1S51, aged 77 yrs; 
Martha (his wife) died March 3, 1850, aged 71 yrs 6 mos; 
Mchitable died April 28, 1873, aged 72 yrs 1 mo; Joshua Jr. 
died May 5, 1852, aged 50 yrs; Mary (his wife) died Oct 10, 
1890, aged 86 yrs 9 mos 27 dys; Newman died Dec 24, 1845, 
aged 3 mos; Elder Joshua died June 25, 1873, aged 93 yrs 10 
mos 25 dys ; Elizabeth (his first wife) died March i, 1844, aged 74 
yrs 2 dys ; Anna M. (his second wife) died D^c 29, 1S69, aged 
90 yrs; David died Jan 21, 1881, aged 77 yrs; Mary H. (his 
wife) died Dec 7, 1881, aged 77 yrs; Mary died Oct 3, 1861, 
aged 21 yrs 10 mos; Annie M. died Aug 14, 1873, aged 36 yrs 
10 mos 16 dys. 

Harvey, Ginger died April 30, 1865, aged 100 yrs. 
Hill, George A. died May 25, 1883, aged 61 yrs 7 mos 
4 dys ; Joanna F. died June 21, 1858, aged 34 yrs 3 mos 10 dys ; 
Abby J. (their dau) died June 6, 1850, aged i yr 3 mos 16 dys ; 
HoLBROKE (see Whidden). 

Huntee, Sally (wife of Currier Huntee) died March 8, 
1849, aged 34 yrs 7 mos ; Charles H. (their son) died June 21, 
1869, aged 26 yrs 6 mos ; James (son) died Aug 10, 1849, aged 
10 mos; Susan F. (dau of Currier and Fanny Huntee) died 



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July 13, 1853, aged i yr 8 mos ; Sarah Ann (dau of William and 
Alta Huntee) died June 25, 1840, aged 2 yrs 8 mos. 

HusE, Eunice died Aug 7 1863, aged 66 yrs 2 mos. 

Jackson, Joseph died Feb 17, 1845, ^ged 54 yrs; Betsey 
(his wife) died Aug 14, 1856, aged 63 yrs ; Hugh M. (their son) 
died July 3, 1849, ^g^^ 29 yrs ; William W. (son) died Dec 23, 
1854, aged 37 yrs; Clarinda (dau) died March 7, 1849, ^ged 
31 yrs; Esther W. (dauj died April 23, 1855, aged 30 yrs; 
Morrison died Aug 26, 1843, ^ged 43 yrs; Samuel died Oct 12, 
1842, aged 80 yrs; Mary (his wife) died Oct 6, 1833, aged 69 yrs. 

Kimball, Sarah J. (wife of Isaac Kimball) died Feb 23, 
1851, aged 38 yrs; Isaac died June 24, 1841, aged 55 yrs 11 
mos 18 dys; Judith (wife of Isaac Kimball) died Oct 26, 1878, 
aged 87 yrs; Maria (their dau) died July 6, 1865, aged 36 yrs 
10 mos II dys. 

Lawson, George, Co K 4th N. H. Infantry ; Edward died 
Jan I, 1870, aged 67 yrs, a native of Nottingham, Eng. ; 
Catherine, died Jan 21, 1885, aged 74 yrs ; William, Co K 4th 
N. H. Infantry. 

Martin, Peter died Jan 17, 1S56, aged 55 yrs 4 mos 23 djs. 

McClarv, Thomas died Aug 28, 1829, aged 39 yrs; 
Eleanor (his wife) died July 31, 1869, aged 74 yrs; Charles died 
Sept 21, 1877, aged 56 yrs ; Jane H. (wife of John) died June 
26, 1862, aged 35 yrs; David died June 20, 1891, aged 68 yrs. 

McKennev, Andrew died Oct 30, 1865, aged 25 )rs; 
Angle (widow of Andrew McKenney and wife of Porter Braley) 
died Oct 8, 1870, aged 28 yrs 10 mos. 

Merrick, Nancy C. wife of Jonathan L. Merrick) died 
July 7, 1850, aged 38 yrs. 

Morse, Almira (dau of John and Mary Morse) died Oct 11, 
1S52, aged 7 yrs 8 mos. 

MuLLiNS, Israel died Oct 13, 1859, aged 59 yrs ; Mary (his 
wife) died May 17, 1864, aged 67 yrs 5 mos 15 dys. 

Nesmith, Capt. James died June 24, 1847, aged 53 yrs; 
Mary (his wife) died March 7, 1866, aged 68 yrs 10 mos ; Sarah 
F. died March 8, 1849, aged 23 yrs. 

Nichols, Jacob died Sept 11, 1878, aged 89 yrs 5 mos 14 dys. 

Page, Darius (son of Joel and Rachel Page) died April 5, 
1842, aged 2 yrs 3 mos. 

Pettengill, Hugh (son of Hugh and Elizabeth Pettengill; 
died Nov i, 1846, aged 38 years; Henry E. (son) died March 
21, 1S45, '""gsd 20 yrs; Sarah E. M. (dau) died Aug 20, 181 7, 
aged 2 yrs; Emeline (dau) died June 14, 1S44, aged 7 mos 
14 dys; Capt. Warren died Aug 28, 1864, aged 74 yrs 3 mos; 
Jane (his wife) died March i, 1831, aged 31 yrs 9 mos; Isabel 
(dau) died Nov 4, 1S51, aged 25 yrs 4 mos ; Eliza Ann (dau) 
died April 30, 1847, aged 16 yrs 10 mos; Phineas (son) died 
March 28, 1851, aged 29 yrs 4 mos ; Warren (son) died Feb 7, 
i860, aged 40 yrs 3 mos. 

PiLLSBURY, Rev. Stephen died Jan 22, 1851, aged 69 yrs; 
Lavinia H. (his wife) died Oct 29, 1871, aged 75 yrs 11 mos 
29 dys ; Adoniram Judson (son) died Sept 18, 185 1, aged 21 yrs. 

RowELL, Jane P. (wife of John Rowell) died Oct 17, 1866, 
aged 52 ) rs 7 mos. 



Skinner, George W. died April 9, 1863, aged 31 yrs; 
Eliza J. died Sept 24, 1863, aged 32 yrs 4 mos; Edwin W. died 
Sept 12, 1858, aged 8 mos 10 dys. 

Slate, Levonia Lettia M. (dau of L. J. and L. B. Slate) 
died Sept 27, 1862, aged 10 mos 4 dys. 

Smith, Nathaniel died March 17, 1861, aged 69 yrs; 
Elizabeth (his wife) died Nov 22, 18S8, aged 91 yrs 10 mos; 
David died Aug 13, 1839, aged 67 yrs; Lois (his wife) died 
Nov 26, 1850, aged 78 yrs; Joseph died June 27, 1838, aged 
23 yrs. 

Snow, Freddie L. (son of G. W. and Eliza Snow) died July 
29, 1876, aged 16 yrs 7 mos 16 dys. 

Spinney, H. B. died June 27, 1862, aged 39 yrs 8 mos; 
Alexander died Aug 26, 1847, aged 63 yrs 5 mos; Zillah (wife) 
died Jan 8 1849, aged 63 yrs. 

SwETT, Martha Grace (dau of Frank and Sarah J. Sweit) 
died Aug i8, 1866, aged 2 yrs 3 mos 4 dys. 

Thurston, Nellie E. (wife of Walter J. Thurston) died 
Oct 26, 1872, aged 26 yrs 8 mos 17 dys. (See Huntee.) 

Watts, Martha J. (wife of Caleb M. Watts) died Feb 17, 
1S58, aged 32 yrs ; Hattie M. (dau of Caleb M. and Martha J. 
Wattsj died March 4, 1S52, aged i yr 6 mos; Infant (dau of 
same) died A\ig 17, 1854; Infant (dau of same) died Nov 29, 
1872; Frank Henry died Oct i, 1S75, aged 23 yrs i mo; 
Joshua C. died Jan 21, 1873, aged 82 yrs 6 mos; Martha (his 
wife) died Dec 16, 1869, aged 70 yrs 6 mos ; Margaret (their 
dau) died Aug 19, 1840, aged 3 yrs 8 mos ; Martha M. (their 
dau) died July 12, 1861, aged 30 yrs; James died Dec 28, 1S48, 
aged 54 yrs; James (son of James and Miriam Watts) died 
March 14, 1840, aged 20 yrs. 

Wetherbee, Capt. Hezekiah, died March iS, 1869, aged 
82 yrs 10 mos ; Grace B. (his wife) died Feb 9, 1865, aged 78 
yrs 5 mos; Susan A. (their dau) died Sept 10, 1864, aged 39 yrs 
8 mos ; William B. died Sept it, 1884, aged 55 yrs; Sarah E 
(his wife) died Dec 4, 1888, aged 48 yrs. 

Whidden, Michel born Nov 10 1796, died Nov. 2, 1S61 ; 
Hannah (his wife) born Oct 2, 1801, died Sept 21, 1881 ; 
Elbridge G. died May 21, 1849, aged '8 ys 6 mos ; George M., 
Co D 7th Reg. N. H. Vols., wounded at Drury's Bluff, Va., 
died June 25, 1864, aged 30 yrs 2 mos ; Rufus M. (son of Joshua 
and Adaline Whidden) died Jan iS, 1852, aged 2 mos 18 dys ; 
Mary F. (dau of same) died Dec i, 1854, aged i yr 11 mos 18 
dys; Abby M. (dau of George M. and Mary A. Whidden) died 
Aug 24, 1862, aged 3 mos ; Abigail Holbrook (in the same lot) 
died Feb 3 1846, aged 37 yrs. 

Whittemore (see Cheney). 

Wheeler, Charles H. died Aug 8, 1890, aged 17 yrs 3 mos 
12 dys; Rebecca G. (wife of Tilly H. Wheeler) died May 28, 
1850, aged 39 yrs 6 mos; James S. (son of T. H. and R. G. 
Wheeler) died March 30, 1867, aged 21 yrs 11 mos 12 dys. 

Vickery, Roxanna Austen (wife of Calvin) died Dec 4, 
184S. aged 59 yrs. 

Young, Israel M. died July 18, 1880, aged 44 yrs 9 mos. 



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J 



OHN FERGUSON, M. D., son of David F. to the faculty of the medical college of Castleton, 
and Kate Lavenia (Fitz Gerald) Ferguson, \'t., then in session, and easily obtained their 



was born in Rathkeale, 
county of Limerick, Ire- 
land, Oct. 28, 1829. His 
ancestors were Scotch, 
who settled in the north 
of Ireland antl were gen- 
erally engaged in linen 
manufacture. His grand- 
father, David, moved to 
the south of Ireland, 
became a merchant in 
Rathkeale, and reared a 
family of five sons and 
two daughters. Four 
of the sons chose the 
learned professions, law, 
divinity, and medicine, 
one of them becoming 
judge for the southern 
district of Ireland. Dr. 
Ferguson is the eldest 
of eight children. He 
was instructed by a pri- 
vate tutor in his earlv 
years, and was graduated 
from a Jesuit college in 
1S47. He then imme- 
diately began the studv 
of medicine with his 
uncle, Dr. Philip O'Han- 
lon, in Rathkeale, and 
in 1850 was graduated 
from the Hall of Apothe- 
caries in Dublin. His 
continued association 
with his uncle enabled 
him to acquire a practi- 
cal knowledge of medi- 
cine, surgery, pharmacy, 
and dispensary practice. 
Dr. O'Hanlon emigrated 
to America and soon 

became celebrated as a successful practitioner in 
New York. Dr. Ferguson followed him to this 
country in 185 1, and that he might practice his 
profession here he offered himself for examination 




JOHN FERGUSON, M. D. 



diploma. In the follow- 
ing spring he received 
the diploma of the Col- 
lege of Physicians and 
Surgeons of New York, 
and then accepted the 
l)osition of surgeon on a 
line of mail steamships 
plying between New 
York, Liverpool, Bre- 
men, and Havre, where 
for three years he was 
associated with many 
distinguished persons 
among the travelling 
public and made many 
valuable friends. Leav- 
ing the service of the 
steamship company, he 
was appointed one of 
the post-mortem examin- 
ing surgeons for the 
coroners of New York 
city, also assistant ana- 
t o m i c a 1 demonstrator 
and assistant clinical in- 
structor at the medical 
university in Fourteenth 
street, a college patron- 
ized chiefly by the sons 
of Southern planters. In 
1 86 1 he came to Man- 
chester, being the first 
Irish physician to settle 
here, and was shortly 
afterward appointed by 
Gov. Berry surgeon of 
the Tenth New Hamj)- 
shirc Volunteers. He 
left for the front with 
his regiment in the fall 
of 1862. During his 
residence in New York he had been surgeon on 
the staff of Col. Corcoran, of the famous Si.\ty- 
Ninth Regiment, and saw service in the quaran- 
tine riots on Staten Island, which fitted him all 



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the better to fill the position of brigade surgeon 
during the Civil War. Near the close of the 
Rebellion he leturned to Manchester, where he 
has since resided and built up a large and lucrative 
practice. In 1881 he was a member of the state 
legislature. Dr. Ferguson married Eleanor, only 
surviving daughter of Michael and Eleanor 
Hughes, who belonged to an old and wealthy 
family of New York city. Four children have 
been born to this union : Eleanora, born on 
Staten Island, married William Goggin of Man- 
chester, January, 1889; Alfred, born in Manches- 
ter, died in 1872 ; Mary C, and John D. Dr. Fer- 
guson is a member of the New Hampshire 
Medical Society, and among his professional 
brethren stands high as a skilful practitioner, while 
in social life he is a thorough gentleman of the 
old schcol. 



SAMUEL CLARK, son of Robert Clark, was 
born in the English Range, Derry, Dec. 27, 
1798. He was of Scotch-Irish descent. F'eb. 26, 




Robert Hamilton. Samuel Clark was one of nine 
children, and was but seventeen years of age when 
his father died ; yet being possessed of great energy 
and an iron constitution, combined with good 
judgment, he readily assumed the management of 
the farm and shared with his mother the respon- 
sibility of rearing several vounger brothers and 
sisters and had the satisfaction of seeing them all 
become worthy citizens. In 183 1 he purchased the 
farm on the shore of Tsienneto lake, now in posses- 
sion of his onlv son, and here he remained, success- 
fully tilling his acres until his death, which occurred 
March 10, 1S84. He had a wonderfully retentive 
memory, and his conversation was always enter- 
taining. Kind and sympathetic by nature, he was 
ever attentive in time of sickness or distress. 
During his long life he was a constant attendant 
at the First Parish church, and was deeply inter- 
ested in the welfare of his native town, which he 
served as selectman. His son, Robert H., was 
born in Derry, Nov. 8, 1842, inheriting many of 
his father's traits of character. March i, 1862, 
he married Frances Choate of Lowell, Mass., and 
their children are: George Choate, Lillian May, 
Emilv Bertha, Edith Lucy, and Emma Josephine. 
Although Mr. Clark and his son George are suc- 
cessfully engaged in farming and carpentering, he 
has been active in town affairs, having served as 
town treasurer in 1875-77; as selectman 1887-89, 
and '93 ; as member of the board of appraisers in 
1892, and as representative to the general court 
in 1895. 



W 



ITCHCRAFT.— Probably most of the 
descendants of the Nutheld colony are 
familiar with the small tree or shrub that srrows 
abundantly over all parts of the township and is 
commonly called the witch-hazel. It furnishes an 
inexhaustible supply of aromatic and pungent oils 
for the manufacture of a large variety of medicinal 
remedies. At the present time one establishment 
for the manulacturc of witch-hazel oil exists in 
Derry, and the forests are thoroughly searched for 
1829, he married Eliza Ann, daughter of Ebenezer the shrul), which in its crude form has no commer- 
Gregg of Deny. She was born July 26, 1804, and cial value, and the owners of w^ooilland are gener- 
died Nov. 20, 1881. Their children were: Mary ally quite willing to part with all their witch-hazel 
Ann, Lucinda, Eliza Ann, Mary Frances, and at the pleasure of the proprietor of the establish- 



SAMUEL CLARK. 



WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFTELD. 



28; 



ment. It mav not he so gencrallv known or 
believed that the early settlers of this town were 
inclined to certain superstitions concerning the 
power of this shrub. The covenanters took 
exceedingly literal views of the meaning of the 
Holy Scriptures and liad a lively imagination to 
conceive of the possession and operations of 
unseen spirits. As the nature and influence of the 
unseen powers were inexplicable, so the means of 
euardinsf asrainst their machinations were also 
bevond the scope of reason, and now the mere 
recital of our ancestors' belief in witches, and 
credulity in charms for protection against their 
evil intentions is enough to create doubts of their 
mental sanitv and lead to investigation of other 
peculiarities for which thev were noted. About a 
hundred years ago there were several persons 
residing in the town of Londonderry who were 
commonly reported as possessed of occult powers 
and in collusion with satanic agencies that ren- 
dered them peculiarly dangerous to the community, 
and especially liable to inflict bodily injuries or 
torments under any exciting cause. The safety of 
the common people was believed to be conserved 
best by maintaining peaceful relations with the 
witches and avoiding all occasions for revenge. 
For the sake of those who might trace relationship 
to some of these characters and resent the personal 
allusion, it will serve the reader cquallv well to 
omit names in the following instances of alleged 
witchcraft in Londonderry, although in the present 
state of enlightenment on the subject of posses- 
sions and the curative arts it is no unworthy reflec- 
tion to remember the absurdities that were per- 
fectly natural to the men and women of the last 
century. 

One of these reputed witches lived on the 
Haverhill road, or verv near to it on a bridle patli 
in the southeastern part of the town. Among her 
neighbors was a farmer with a wife and small 
children. The farmer owned a wood lot and con- 
verted his wootl and timber into money and 
domestic goods. In the ]Mocess of hauling wood 
he used an ox team. On a certain day he started 
from his home with a small load of logs on a four- 
wheeled wagon made by joining two single pairs 
of wheels, and he had one strong yoke of oxen to 
draw his load. On the Haverhill road, between 



his home and the city, there is one long hill, and 
the road led straight over the top of it, according 
to the general custom of building highways in the 
earlier times. The farmer with his oxen and load 
of logs was proceeding leisurely up this long hill, 
and had nearly reached the summit, when the 
clevis pin sprang out of the spire to the impro- 
vised wagon and the load of logs began running 
backward down the hill. Owing to the straight- 
ness of the road and the dragging of the spire, like 
a ship's rudder behind, the load ran to the very 
bottom of the hill without leaving the ruts. The 
farmer was somewhat surprised at this unusual 
accident, and picking up the clevis pin, returned 
with the oxen to the bottom of the hill, where he 
attached them again to the load and proceeded a 
second time on his way. Never having suffered 
from a like mishap before, the farmer could not 
expect it to be repeated, but he had scarcely 
reached the same place on the side of the hill 
when the clevis pin was heard to fall on the 
ground, followed by the withdrawal of the spire 
irom the ring and staple of the yoke, and the load 
began running down hill in the same unaccount- 
able manner, and continued as before to the 
bottom. The farmer was in a passion, but like all 
persevering heroes of romance he picked up his 
clevis pin and went back for a third trial. As he 
jiondercd over the incident on liis wav down the 
hill, occasionally venting a little of his tcmjier 
upon the oxen with his stout goadstick, the 
thought came to him that a good withe, made from 
witch-hazel, well twisted and bound around the end 
of the spire and over the head of the clevis jiin, 
might prevent a further repetition of that partic- 
ular annoyance. The witch-hazel grows bv all 
roadsides and he had no difficultv in finding just 
what he wanted, and in a few minutes he had 
twisted it under his feet until it was as pliable as a 
lope and fully as strong. After slipping the spire 
into the yoke ring and putting in the clevis pin, 
he ])roceeded to wind the tough withe around the 
spire between the ring and the clevis pin, and 
bevond the pin and over its head, and finished by 
tucking the end through a loop in the branches. 
When the fanner had completed this work to his 
satisfaction, he chuckled to himself a little and 
started up his oxen with a greatly improved temper. 



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He passed the hill without further trouble, reached 
Haverhill, disposed of his load, and reached 
home about six o'clock, both hun<)ry and tired, 
he therefore resorted to the expedient of unyoking 
the oxen and leaving the yoke on the spire until 
some other time. He had scarcely gotten his oxen 
into the barn when his wife came from the house 
and said their neighbor, calling her by name, the 
person who had the reputation of being a witch, 
had been suddenly seized with choking and was in 
great distress, in danger of dying, and had sent 
over for him to come to her just as speedily as 
possible when he returned from Haverhill. The 
farmer began to have a suspicion of the circum- 
stances of her choking and the cause, and was 
thoroughly minded to let her suffer, but as his wife 
urged him to go and not incur the resentment of 
the old woman, he said : " You go over to her and 
see what condition she is in, antl watch her very 
closely for fifteen minutes bv the clock, and I will 



follow vou when I have eaten my supper." She 
went back to the old woman, who was arroaningf 
and gasping for breath in great agony, and told 
her that her husband would arrive in fifteen 
minutes, and then sat down to watch her. In 
about ten minutes the witch became perfectly 
quiet and free from pain. Meanwhile the farmer 
had gone to the barn, removed the witch-hazel 
withe from the spire and clevis pin, and was 
on his way to see the old woman. It did not 
require any words to explain what she desired of 
him, and he was not slow in giving her to under- 
stand that he had suspected her of evil influences 
before, and that she had borne that reputation, 
that now he had full proof of her witchcraft, and 
that although at his wife's urgent entreaty he had 
taken compassion upon a witch this once, she might 
be cautious about plaving any of her tricks upon 
him again, for if she persisted he should certainly 
strangle her at the next attempt. 




ROGER G. SULLIVAN S RESIDENCE, MANCHESTER. 



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287 



EDWARD P. JOHNSON, son of Jesse and 
Rebekah (Walkci) Johnson, was born . in 
Manchester, at Goffe's Falls, seventy-six years ago. 
Receiving his education in the public and in 
private schools, he became a shoe cutter, and for 
thirty years was engaged in the shoe manufac- 
turing business, developing and conducting the 
extensive affairs of Boyd &. Cory. Having 
achieved great suc- 
cess in this industry, 
he went into business 
for himself as a coal 
merchant in t h e 
fifties, and for nearly 
forty years his affairs 
prospered. He car- 
ried on the business 
alone for a number 
of years, and then, 
taking in a partner, 
the E. P. Johnson 
Coal Company was 
incorporated, with 
Mr. Johnson as presi- 
dent. The corpora- 
tion soon became 
one of the most im- 
portant m the city, 
owning or control- 
ling a large amount 
of real estate, ac- 
quired by Mr. John- 
son's able and skilful 
management. Al- 
though an ardent 
Republican, Mr. 
Johnson was never 
an extreme partisan, 

and he possessed the confidence of his fellow citi- 
zens regardless of party lines. He never sought 
public office but was elected to the board of 
aldermen, where his marked business ability made 
him extremely useful in the management of muni- 
cipal affairs, and where he served on important 
committees. When he had nearly reached the 
age of three score and ten, he was chosen, without 
his solicitation, and by a handsome majority, as 
member of the state legislature. Mr. Johnson 




EDWARD P. JOHNSON. 



took a deep interest in fraternal organizations 
and was the founder of the tribe of Red Men in 
this city, having been initiated into the order in 
Portsmouth. In 1881 he organized Passaconaway 
Tribe ; he was also Great Sachem of the tribes of 
New Hampshire and was often a delegate to 
various conventions of the order in different parts 
of the country. Mr. Johnson was likewise promi- 
nent in the councils 
of the Independent 
Order of Odd Fel- 
lows, being a member 
of Hillsborough 
Lodge for nearly 
forty years. He was 
also a member of the 
Chieftains' League. 
Mr. Johnson was 
twice married, the 
first time to Miss 
Martha A. Bartlett, 
bv wdiom he had 
three children, all of 
whom are now de- 
ceased. His second 
marriage was to Miss 
Abbie A. Demary, in 
1870, Rev. Thomas 
Borden performing 
the ceremony. Mr. 
Johnson's death 
which occurred in 
1892, was mourned 
1)V a wide circle of 
friends and business 
associates. His 
widow survives him. 



r^ADWALLADER JONES was one of the 
^-^ most noted wags of old Nuffield even in his 
boyhood days. One Saturday at a catechising 
class Rev. Mr. McGregor put the question to him, 
"How many covenants are there?" and Cad 
replied : " Two ; a covenant of works and one of 
grace, and the former was broken." " Where was 
it broken ? " asked the minister. " I don't exactly 
know," said Cad, "but I think it snapped off in 
the middle." 



FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, DERRY DEPOT. 



THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH of Deny teen,— eitjht men and six women,— as follows: 

was organized Oct. lo, 1880. Previous to Rev. A. S. Stowell, Mrs. Ella Stowell, Jonathan 

that time, for several years, religious services had May, Mrs. Mary May, Henry S. Wheeler, Mrs. 

been held at the Depot Village by members of H. Maria Wheeler, Margaret H. Morse, Mary 

different denominations. There had been a union Morse, Ira Goodwin, Joseph White, Leonard H. 

Sundav school, and also preaching more or less Pillsbury, Mrs. Evelyn S. Pillsbury, Abram Evans, 

regularly by such clergymen as could be secured Warren C. Evans. All of these persons brought 

from week to week. Rev. George W. Kinney, letters of dismission from Baptist churches of 

then pastor of the Baptist church at Hudson, was which they were formerly members, excepting the 

the fust, perhaps, to call attention to Derry Depot last two, who were received on experience. The 

as a favorable location for the planting of a church first officers of the church were: Pastor, Rev. 

of that faith and order. Rev. Alfred S. Stowell of A. S. Stowell ; deacons, Jonathan May, Joseph 



Salem also interested 
himself in the enter- 
prise, and after receiv- 
ing encouragement 
from different leading 
clergymen of the state, 
these two gentlemen 
began at once to see 
what could be done 
toward the accom- 
plishing of then- pur- 
pose. D e r r y w a s 
visited for the purpose 
of learning the num- 
ber of Baptists living 
there, and their feel- 
ing toward the pro- 
posed movement. 
From these, as well 




FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH AND PARSONAGE, DERRY DEPOT. 



White; clerk, L. H. 
Pillsbury; treasurer, 
H. S. Wheeler. This 
"body of baptized be- 
lievers " was formallv 
recognized as a regu- 
lar Baptist church bv 
an ecclesiastical coun- 
cil called for that pur- 
])Ose, and held Nov. 
17, 1880. Tuesday, 
Sept. 14, 1880, a week- 
night prayer meeting 
was instituted, which 
has been continued 
until the present time, 
being still held on 
that evening of the 
week. Realizing that 



as from others who were not Baptists, they soon a house of worship would be needed, the 
received such encouragement as to warrant pastor, with wise forethought, secured on his own 
immediate action, and accordingly, on Feb. 29, responsibility a building lot for that purpose, 
1880, the first service was held by Mr. Kinney, paying $400 for it. The same lot, without build- 
under the auspices of the New Hampshire Baptist ings, would be worth now more than $1,000. May 
State Convention. These services were continued 10, 1882, a "meeting of citizens interested in the 
from week to week, with preaching by Revs, erection of a church edifice at Derry Depot " was 
Kinney, Stowell, and A. Sherwin of Manchester, called, at which over $1,700 was subscribed. A 
until Aug. 15, when Mr. Stowell, having finished few weeks later a disastrous fire swept through the 
his pastorate at Salem, assumed full charge of the village, destroying much valuable property, and 
work. The first Sunday evening service was held Smith's Flail, where the little church had been 
August 29, and the Sunday school was organized holding its meetings, was burned to the ground. 
Dee. 26. Mr. Stowell at once began the work of For a few weeks the services were held in the 
organizing a church, which was accomplished district schoolhouse, but it was not long before 
Oct. 10, with a constituent membership of four- several of the members of the church had united 

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in erecting a building for temporary use, in which 
the meetings were held until July, 1883, when the 
basement of the new house of worship was ready 
for use, and in the following spring the auditorium 
was finished and dedicated May 14, 1884. A clock 
and bell were afterwards placed in the tower, and 
a baptistry has since been added. In 1890, a two- 
story house for a parsonage was erected on the 
church lot adjoining the meeting-house. In 1892 
the interior of the church was beautifully frescoed 
and the outside newly painted. 

During the fifteen years of its history the 
church has had but two pastors. Re\'. A. S. 




REV. J. H. NICHOLS. 

Stowell served until Oct. 13, 1889, a period of 
nine years, when he closed his pastorate to accept 
that of a church at Montville, Conn. Nov. i i of 
the same year the church called Rev. J. H. Nichols 
to become its pastor, and he assumed the pastorate 
Dec. I. The following named gentlemen have 
served the church as deacons: Jonathan May, 
Joseph White, James Greeley, Henry S. Wheeler, 
iMcd S. Pillshury, and Calvin H. Bradford, the 
three latter now holding that office. L. H. Pills- 
bury, F. S. Pillsbury, A. E. French, and Marshall 
Martin have served as clerk. H. S. Wheeler has 
been treasurer from the organization of the church. 



and L. H. Pillsbury superintendent of the Sunday 
school for the same length of time. 

A good degree of prosperity has attended the 
church from the beginning. Ninety-eight persons 
have been received by baptism upon profession of 
faith, and forty by letter and experience, making, 
with the fourteen constituent members, a total of 
one hundred and fifty-two who have been con- 
nected with the church. According to the annual 
reports, nearly $21,000 have been raised for home 
objects and benevolent purposes. 



NUTFIELD MILLERITES.— No single year 
in the history of Londonderry has made a 
deeper and more lasting impression upon the 
memories of the older inhabitants than the notable 
year of 1843, when the end of the world and the 
second advent of the Saviour were expected by a 
class of people called Millerites from their belief 
in the calculations and doctrines of a celebrated 
leader whose name was William Miller (born in 
Massachusetts in 1781; died in 1849). The 
movement in Londoncierrv began early in the 
summer of that vear, in a series of cottage lectures 
that attracted one family after another with 
rapidly increasing force and influence until cot- 
tages were not sufficient for the attendance, and 
camps had to be set up for their accommodation. 
In the beginning of the season only Sabbath days 
were devoted to these lectures, accompanied by 
prayer and singing and conducted by outside 
exhorters or leaders, but gradually the solemnity 
of the doctrine and the seriousness of the con- 
verts demanded more time for preparation to meet 
the dire catastrophe that was daily coming nearer, 
and the evenings of the week days were devoted 
to lecture, prayer and singing at the various houses 
where the interest was deepest. On the Sabbath 
a long service was conducted in the open air near 
some residence, where the leaders and visitors 
from adjoining towns were entertained before and 
after the services. 

As the summer wore away, interest in these 
meetings increased to such intensity that the 
crowds of people who assembled could not give 
attention to business of any other kind, and per- 



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mancnt camp-meetings were organized with tents, 
furniture, provisions, and sleepmg accommoda- 
tions and exciting addresses. Continual conver- 
sions followed by day and by night. Carpenters 
abandoned their occupation, leaving unfinished 
buildings. Farmers neglected their corn, and 
potatoes remained in the field, and cattle were 
allowed to run at large. In most of these cases of 
abandonment and neglect the neighbors interposed 
to save the wanton waste of property. In the 
instance of the entire abandonment of crops 
related of the enthusiastic Ralph Nevins, who 
lived on the farm afterward owned and occupied 
by Jonathan Dana on the westerly side of Beaver 
brook, the selectmen of the town went to him one 
day and said : "Mr. Nevins, we understand you do 
not intend to gather your corn this year." He 
replied : " I have more important business on 
hand." The selectmen added: "Then we will 
attend to the gathering of vour crops, Mr. Nevins, 
so that they shall not be wasted." The devoted 
believer tried to remonstrate with them upon the 
folly of wasting their time in gathering earthly 
treasures when the consummation of all things 
was so very nigh, but they were not moved by his 
arguments, and soon afterwards sent men to do 
the harvesting. 

Early in the summer cottage lectures were 
delivered at the houses of Ralph Nevins, Joshua 
Austin, west of the Mammoth road, near Henry 
Crowell's residence (the widow of Joshua Austin 
still lives on the old place) ; at John Morse's house, 
where Joseph Eaton now lives; at Stephen 
Morse's house, which was the old Joseph Paige 
place, where were numerous other earnest believers 
and workers ; at Jonathan Webster's house, that 
stood on the hill eastward of the Hardy place; at 
the Messer house, where the widow of Cyrus 
Messer lived, between Albert Tenncy and John 
Merrill's homes, and at Jimmy Lindlist's house, 
on the road from Cheney village to Windham. 
Cheney village was the name applied to a cluster 
of buildings formerly located a little west of Deny 
Depot. William Cheney was a notorious trader 
of horses, and it is alleged that during the time 
when the Millerites were encamped in great num- 
bers around the Ralph Nevins buildings, holding 
services day after day, he exhibited some of his 



horses to the preachers who came from other 
towns and needed good roadsters, and by exchange 
and barter, enriched himself to the amount of 
three or four hundred dollars at the expense of 
the ministers. At a large camp-meeting held in 
the woods west of the Messer house, called the 
Watts lot, the good order of the Millerite services 
was disturbed by the boisterous conduct of some 
of the townspeople who attended the meetings 
mainly from curiosity, and being rather inclined to 
humor, saw something ridiculous in the devout 
Millerites shouting "Glory" when the preacher 
happened to say something that appealed to their 
feelings, and shouted also with pertinacity "Go it !" 
Three of these noisy persons, Joel Annis, George 
Boyce, and David Barker, were arrested and taken 
to court at the Lower village to answer to the 
charge of disturbing the meeting. The defendants 
in the case procured the services of Squire John 
Porter, and the Adventist plaintiff in the case em- 
ployed Squire Joseph Gregg. In the sequel the three 
disturbers of the peace paid each a small fine as 
penalty and were sworn to keep good order in the 
future. To make the keeping of good order more 
certain afterward, the sheriff, Samuel Marsliall, was 
ordered to be present at the meetings. The 
Adventists, as they were also named, held meetings 
in the woods of Robert Jeffers, and some of the 
citizens retaliated upon the preachers there for the 
arrest of the three young men by arresting some 
of them who sold hymn books, familiarly termed 
Penny Royal Hymns, or other trifles, on the 
Sabbath day, and they were taken to court and 
fined. One of the more widely known preachers 
of the Millerites was Joseph Moore, a man highly 
respected throughout a long life. From the fact 
of his having been engaged in the mills at spinning 
previous to his becoming a preacher, he was very 
commonly s'poken of as Spinner Joe Moore. His 
widow and daughter are still living in London- 
derry. Robert Henry Perham was converted to 
this faith. There was also Father Dustin, who 
liyed on the turnpike above the village, and Father 
Hazelton, who was at the time pastor of the 
Methodist society in Deny village. His conver- 
sion led him to preach the doctrine of an imme- 
diate coming of Christ and the conflagration of 
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a time threatened to dismember the Methodist pOSECRANS W. PILLSBURY, son of Col. 
body in Derry. A ^ WilHam S. Pillsbury, was born in London- 

The actions of some of the lielievers were derry, Sept. i8, 1863. His early education was 
extremely ludicrous, in spite of the seriousness of 

their faith. Jonathan Webster, at a camp-meeting: ^ 

held around Joshua Austin's premises, related to 
the audience that he had a revelation to communi- 
cate from a ttiad that spoke to him in the field 
where he was digging potatoes, to the purport that 
the final catastrophe of the end of the world had 
been deferred for a little longer to give a farther 
o])purtunity for conversions. It caused great 
merriment from the fact that he went without 
shoes in summer, and once, while hoeing in 
the field, had mistaken his own toe for a toad 
sticking up through the dirt, and struck it a blow 
with his hoe, much to his pain and chagrin. From 
the time of this revelation the name of the medium 
was inseparably linked to his surname. The 
interest in these large camp-meetings subsided 
with the approach of cold weather, and while the 
more ardent continued to labor, it was deemed 
inexpedient to attempt the formation of any per- 
manent organization in the town. 

R. W. PILLSBURY S RESIDENCE, LONDONDERRY. 

received in the public schools, and after being 
prepared for college at Pinkerton Academy, he 
entered Dartmouth with the class of 1S85. Ill 
health, however, compelled liim at the end of the 
first year to abandon thoughts of a collegiate 
course. After recovering his health he became 
bookkeeper in his father's shoe factory at Derry 
and remained there for a time. A mercantile 
career was not to his liking, however, and he 
determined upon the study of law, entering first 
the office of Drury & Peaslee in Manchester, and 
later the Law School of Boston University. He 
is now engaged in the practice of his profession at 
Derry Depot. Mr. Pillsbury has frequently been 
a member of the Republican State Central Com- 
mittee, and in 1889 was the youngest member of 
the Constitutional Convention. Gov. Smith 
offered him the position of judge advocate general 
on his personal staff, but Mr. Pillsbury declined 
the honor. In 1885 Mr. Pillsbury was married to 
Miss Annie E. Watts of Manchester, and two 
RosECRANs vv. PILLSBURY. childrcu havc been added to the family. 




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HON. HORATIO FRADD, son of Richard 
and Elizabeth (Warren) Fradd, was born in 
Cornwall, England, May 17, 1832. In 1849 he 
came to America and settled in Boston, finding 
employment at his trade as brass founder. About 
five years later, in 1854, he came to Manchester 
and opened a hat and cap store in the Merrimack 
block, at that time one of the few brick business 
structures in the new 
city. Four years 
afterward he went 
into the grocery busi- 
ness with James A. 
Stearns, and subse- 
quently established 
himself in the same 
line of trade at the 
corner of Main and 
Granite streets, in 
Piscataquog. There 
he has since re- 
mained, occasionally 
changing partners, 
but always progress- 
mg. He is todav 
the oldest grocer in 
Manchester and is 
still active in super- 
intending his affairs, 
although his nephew 
and partner, Chas. H. 
Fradd, has charge of 
the details of the busi- 
ness. He has alwavs 
been a Republican, 
and the voters of 
Ward eight have 
shown their confi- 
dence in him by the gift of many public offices. 
He was overseer of the poor in 1863-64; assessor 
during the three following years; alderman for 
three years ; member of the house of representatives 
in 1872-73; member of the last state constitu- 
tional convention, and state senator in 1889-90. 
In the senate he served on the committees on 
fisheries, roads and bridges, labor, and other mat- 
ters. One of the substantial men of Manchester, 
always upright and straightforward, he has made 




HON. HOKATIO FRADD. 



friends in all walks of life. In 1853 Mr. Fradd 
was married to Mary E. Cayzer of Boston, and 
one child, Lizzie M., now the wife of Joseph R. 
Fradd of Manchester, was born to them. Mrs. 
Fradd dying in 1872, Mr. Fradd, in 1877, married 
Jennie McDonald of New York state. Five chil- 
dren have been the fruit of this union : Edwin H., 
Ralph D., Annie M., Norman W., and James M. 

These make a happy 
home on Dove r 
street, West Man- 
chester, where the 
father has lived for 
more than thirty 
years. They attend 
the Main-Street Con- 
gregational church 
and take a leading 
part in local society 
affairs. Mr. Fradd 
is a member of the 
Royal Arcanum and 
of Uncanoonuc 
Lodge of Odd Fel- 
lows. 

THE first tramp 
on record in 
Nutfield was Daniel 
Mt. Aferson. He 
seems to have given 
the citizens a good 
deal of annoyance, 
for in I 'j}^^ they voted 
in to w n meeting 
■■ that the selectmen 
provide irons to 
secure Daniel Mt. 
Aferson from hurting or disturbing any of the 
inhabitants of the town. Each inhabitant shall 
lodge said Mt. Aferson 24 hours and then pass 
him to the next neighbor — penalty 10 shillings." 
Eight years before this, in 1730, the town voted 
" to let Hugh Wilson be prosecuted for an idler, 
as the law directs." It is probable that Hugh 
reformed and went to work, for there is no record 
of any prosecution against him. He was related 
to one of the original proprietors of the town. 



STARK AT BUNKER HILL, AT BENNINGTON, AND AT HOME, 



STARK AT BUNKER HILL. — John Stark's l)oin, one of his captains: "When we reached 

services to the cause of American freedom Charlestown Necl^ we found two regiments halted 

on the memorable 17th of June, 1775, can scarcely in consequence of a heavy enfilading fire across it of 

be overestimated. Although the fascinating story round, bar and chain shot from the frigate Lively, 

of the battle of Bunker Hill has been told and from floating batteries anchored in Charles river, 

retold a hundred times, it never loses its interest and a floating battery lying in the river Mystic. 

to the sons of New Hampshire because of the role Major McClary went forward and said to the com- 

wiiich Granite State men played in that great mandcrs that if they diti not intend to move on, 

struggle. According to the best authorities, he wished them to open and let our regiment pass, 

they formed about two thirds of all the American This was immediately done. My company being 

forces engaged in the conflict, and had there in front, I marched by the side of Col. Stark, who 

been any deficiency in their numbers, their energy, was moving with a very deliberate pace. I sug- 

efificiency, and freshness would have counter- gested the propriety of quickening the march of 

balanced it. During the forenoon of that day the regiment, that it might sooner be relieved 

Stark's regiment was ordered to the relief of from the galling cross-fire of the enemy. With a 

Prescott. The men were without powder, look peculiar to himself, he fixed his eyes upon me 

It was too valuable to be trusted to new levies and observed: ' Dearborn, one fresh man in action 

until they went into action. Stark's troops is worth two fatigued ones,' and continued to 

marched at once to their arsenal, and each man advance in the same cool and collected manner." 

received a spare flint, fifteen bullets and a gill cup When Stark reached the battlefield he saw that 

of powder for his tlask or horn. Their fowling- the British troops, now reinforced, were preparing 

pieces had few or no bayonets, and were of dif- to adyance, and were marshalling a large body of 

ferent calibres. A little time was lost in fitting or light infantry and grenadiers to turn the left flank 

exchanging bullets or in hammermg them down of the Americans. Col. Knowlton and his 120 

to suit their guns. By one o'clock Stark's regi- men from Connecticut were posted at the south 

ment was on the march and was joined on its way end of the grass fence. Stark saw at a glance the 

by the Third New Hampshire, under Col. James point of danger, and directed his men to extend 

Reed, and they bore to Prescott's weary men the the grass fence to the beach on the Mystic and 

important accession of at least nine hundred hardy rear a stone wall across the beach to the water, 

troops in homespun dress, without a cartridge, and taking stones from the beach and adjacent fences, 

with few bayonets, but with some experience in He then placed his large force in three rows 

war under veteran officers. Before two o'clock behind the fence and wall, directing the first rank 

Stark, with his regiment, had reached the narrow with the best marksmen to fire, and the second 

causeway which crossed Charlestown Neck, less and rear ranks to load rapidly as they knelt upon 

than a mile from the redoubt. His march and the ground; then, stepping in front of his line, he 

bearing on that day are thus described by Dear- planted a stake sixty yards in advance of his fence, 

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and returnincj to his men, told them that he should 
shoot the lirst man who fired before the British 
passed the stake. At half-past three o'clock 
British reinforcements landed, and Lord Howe 



New Hampshire provincials in homespun clothes 
to fly at the first onset. But they remained behind 
the fence and wall as still as death. The British 
passed the stake planted by Stark, and then came 




PLAN OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL, SHOWING THE STAND MADE BY STARK S AND REED S NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENTS. 

Explanation of thb Plan.— At the top appears the Mystic River. At the right is Moulton's (or Morton's) Point, where the British troops first landed and formed. Extending 
downward from the shore of the Mystic, on the left, appear the rail fences, behind which were posted in their order Col. Stark's New Hampshire regiment. Col. Reed's New Hampshire 
regiment, and Capt. KnowUon's Connecticut companies. Iq front of the rail fences are represented the eleven companies of British Grenadiers, in line, advancing to the attack ; and on 
the beach of the Mystic River the eleven companies of the British Light Infantry, marching with a narrow front, in their attempt to flank the American lefr. The numbers of the regiments 
to which the Light Infantry companies severally belonged are given in the figures, as in the plan of De Berniere. 1 he Light Infantry company of the Tliirly-Fiflh Regiment appears both 
on the river beach and on the higher bank at the right of the Grenadi ers. It is supposed that in one attack it occupied one position and in the other attack a different one. Below the rail 
fences and a little at their right appear the earthworks of Col. Prescott. Charlestown Neck is not represented on the plan. It would be much further to the left. 



arrayed his men for the attack. At least 3000 a fire, so intense, so continuous, and so deadly, 

men moved forward to assail the breastworks and that officers and men went down before it. They 

the fence. They were the flower of the English rallied again and again, only to recoil. Nearly 

soldiery, and doubtless expected those half-armed every officer on Howe's staff was killed or 



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wounded. Stark and Reed lost but ninety men, 
but in front of the one company from Derryfield, 
under Capt. John Moore, at the stone wall on the 
beach, ninetv-six dead bodies of the foe were 
counted. Stark's forces were assailed by the 
Welch Fusileers, a crack regiment that had fought 
at Minden with distinction. They entered the 
field at Bunker Hill seven hundred strong, and the 



next morning only eighty-three answered at roll- 
call. The ammunition of the Americans was fast 
giving out, and retreat soon became imperative. 
With a few rounds more of ammunition, Stark and 
Reed might have turned the fortunes of the day. 
They brought off, however, their forces in good 
condition, and returned like victors from the field. 
(See " Nuffield in the Revolution," page 103). 




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QTARK AT BENNINGTON.— As Stark and 
'^ the New Hampshire forces had prevented the 
battle of Bunker Hill from resulting disastrously 
to the American cause, and almost succeeded in 
turning the defeat into victory, so, two years later, 
it was ao-ain the same leader with New Hampshire 
men who contributed most materially to the defeat 
of Burp-oyne. For there can be no doubt that the 
success of the Ameri- 
ca n arms in the 
battles near Benning- 
ton led to the subse- 
quent surrender of 
the British at Sara- 
topfa, which was one 
of the turning points 
in the great struggle 
of the colonies for 
fibertv. The follow- 
ing brief chapter in 
American Revolu- 
tionary annals, deal- 
ing with Stark's vic- 
tories near Benning- 
ton, has been written 
by H. W. Herrick, 
a recognized histori- 
cal authority : 




In the spring of 1777, 
Stark, while engaged in 
recruiting and forwarding 
his regiment to Ticon- 
deroga, learned that his 
name had been dropped 
by Congress from the list 
of colonels recommended 
for promotion. This was 
the second indignity of 
the kind offered him since 

the opening of the war Conscious of patriotic motives an<l of 
success in his position, he ascribed the action of Congress to the 
jealousy of enemies, and declared that honor forbade his remain- 
ing any longer in the service. Notwithstanding the appeals 
made to him to remain in the army, he resigned his commission 
and retired. But he did not relax his efforts as a citizen in the 
patriot service : he sent his own sons to the field, and urged on 
enlistments for the army. Four months changed the aspect of 
affairs in the Northern mihtary department. The fall of Ticon- 
deroga, the repulse of Hubbardton, the exposed situation of the 
young settlements in Vermont, and the rumors of the advance 
of Eurgoyne through eastern New England, spread alarm in 



ST.-\RK AT BENN'IN'GTON. 



every quarter threatened. The delegates to the colonial Assem- 
bly of New Hampshire, stimulated by the spirit and liberality of 
lohn Langdon, their presiding officer, voted to raise two 
brigades, the command of one for the immediate exigency being 
offered to Stark. 

No time was to be lost. A messenger was dispatched to 
bring the retired officer before the committee of military affairs, 
and the command was tendered to him. It was accepted on 
condition that the troops should act independently of Congress 
or of officers appointed by that power. A commission as 

brigadier was therefore 
issued, giving Stark dis- 
cretionary powers to act in 
connection with the main 
army or independently, 
as circumstances might 
require. Recruiting for 
tiiree months" service was 
now carried forward 
briskly : a day sufficed to 
enlist and organize a com- 
pany in the larger towns, 
and Gen. .Stark was 
enabled in about a week 
to start with a large por- 
tion of his force for the 
rendezvous at Charles- 
town, on the Connecticut 
ri\er. Two weeks only 
had passed since the first 
alarm from the capture of 
Ti(-onderoga, and yet Stark 
was organizing and drilling 
his force for action. The 
last week in July he sent 
forward a detachment of a 
few hundred men to the 
support of Warner's broken 
regiment of Continentals 
at Manchester — a town 
twenty-two miles north of 
Bennington. On the 4th 
of August a .'cout of one 
hundred men, under Col. 
Emerson, was sent to 
the valley of Otter Creek, north of Manchester, with directions 
to rendezvous at the latter ])lace, whither Stark himself marched 
with the remainder of his force, after leaving two hundred men 
at Charlestown as a garrison. The column, in its march across 
the Green Mountains, was augmented by militia under Col. 
Williams. 

The Vermont Council of Safety, a committee of twehe, 
sitting at Bennington, had acted with such vigor in recruiting 
and correspondence that Gen. Schuyler anticipated great 
assistance from the militia. When Stark, therefore, arrived at 
Manchester, he found Gen. Lincoln, acting under orders 
from Schuyler, ready to march the whole force to "the Sprouts,"' 



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a rendezvous at tlie mouth of the Mohawk. High words passed 
between the commanders, and Stark, showing that his commis- 
sion gave him plenary powers, tiatly refused to leave Bennington 
uncovered. He, however, wrote to the commander of the 



BENNINGTON 

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Northern army ottering to co-operate in any manner with him 
when the immediate danger to Bennington was over. Lincoln 
left only two days before the battle, to report his failure. 

Rumors of a foray by Burgoyne in the direction of the Con- 
tinental stores at Bennington now becarne frequent : .Stark, 
therefore, on the 8th of August, left Manchester with his brigade 
for the former place. His whole force was but about nine hun- 
dred, the scouts under Emerson not having arrived, and several 
companies being detained at Charlestown. Col. Warner now sent 
out a small force under Capt. Chipman, to bring in a quantity 
of muskets left stacked in the forest by the enemy near Hub- 
bardton at the breaking up of Hales regiment in the 
retreat ; then leaving the remainder of his force to 
await orders, he went forward with Stark to assist by 
his counsel and knowledge of the country. 

Bennington was at this time a frontier town 
having about 1,500 inhabitants. It was named in 
compliment to Gov. Benning Wentworth of New 
Hampshire, under whose ausjiices it was settled 
about twenty years jjreceding, being then included 
in the towns surveyed on the disputed boundary line 
between New York and the New Hampshire Grants. 
The Council of Safety had been in session here about 
a month, having their headquarters at the Cireen 
Mountain House, afterward better known as the 
Catamount Tavern — a name given it from the 
stuffed skin of a catamount placed on the summit of 
the pole supjiorting the landlord's businefs sign. 
The council chamber of the committee was a busy 
place ; Stark was in daily consultation with the members, and 
scouts were several times a day sent out on all roads leading to 
the north and west. The town was filled with militia, two 
regiments of Vermonters being in process of organization. 

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On the gth of August Stark encamped in the west part of 
the town, a few miles from the village, but soon judged it pru- 
dent, from the report of scouts, to move to a point better 
adapted for attack, on the Walloomsack river, nearly north from 
his former position, and near the road leading from 
Bennington to Cambridge, N. Y. This was hardly 
accom])lished, on the 13th, when he received the 
information of the arrival of a force of about one hun- 
dred and fifty Indians at Cambridge, twelve miles distant. 
.\ force of two hundred men, under Lieut.-Col. Gregg, 
was immediately sent against the enemy. At night a 
courier arrived with the intelligence that the Indians were 
but the advance guard of a force of the enemy advancing, 
with artillery, under Col. Baum, assisted by Gov. Skene. 
Swift couriers were now sent to Manchester for War- 
ner's and Emerson's men, and tidings forwarded to 
Bennington, si.\ miles distant, for the immediate help of 
all the militia in the vicinity. Leaving a camp guard. 
Stark, '^on the morning of the fourteenth, moved his 
whole force westward across the Walloomsack, on the 
road to Cambridge, to meet the enemy ; but he had 
advanced only a short distance when he met Gregg 
falling back in good order before a superior force half 
a mile distant. A line of battle was immediately 
seeing which, the enemy stopped pursuit and began 
manoeuvring with the evident ])urpose of avoiding a collision. 
Failing to draw the enemy onward, and the ground being 
unsuitable for general action. Stark retired his force a mile and 
encamped, intending'to^attack when the reinforcements came up 
the following day. 

Scouts soon reported that the enemy was encamping west 
of the state line, on the banks of the little river, at a point easily 
fordable. At this place a bridge and si.v or eight rude log 
houses in a clearing gave them some advantages of shelter and 
position. The accompanying maj), drawn by direction of ex- 



formed 




OLD CONSTITUTION HOUSE, WINDSOR, VT. 

Gov. Hall of Bennington, gives an accurate view of the battle- 
ground and camps. In this position, with scouts occupying the 
neutral ground, the belligerents slept on their arms. 

The morning of the T5th brought a terrible storm of wind 



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and rain, which the ])arties were in no condition to meet. Fight- 
ing in such pouring torrents was out of the question. Baum's force, 
after a semblance of ])arade, cowered for partial shelter in the 
log-houses : and Stark, after forming flanking parties, withdrew 
them and sheltered his men as well as possible in their brush 
huts and under the lee of fences. Tents there were none. 

Surrounded by forests and concealed from each other by 
intervening hills, the opposing forces sent out numerous scouts 
who were lurking in the wet brush most of the day. The flint- 
lock muskets, with all care possible, were so drenched that few 
would explode, and by noon Eraser's marksmen, whom Baum 
had sent over the stream to support the Indians, withdrew to 
the bank and left the ground to the Americans. Our scouts 
now advanced, harried the enemy working on their entrench- 
ments and, with no loss, killed before night about thirty, includ- 
• ng two Indians, whose silver 
ornaments were brought as 
trophies into camp. 

The scene on the ground 
occupied by Baum was a 
busy one despite the 
weather. The previous 
evening he had selected 
two hills by the river bank, 
which he proceeded at once 
to fortify, his troops work- 
ing with alacrity in the 
storm. The position was 
about half a mile west of 
the line dividing Vermont 
from New York : the battle 
was thus fought in the latter 
state. The log-houses were 
partially demolished, and 
the lightest timbers, with 
logs cut on the ground, 
were drawn by the artillery 
horses or carried by the 
men to the highest of the 
two hills up the stream and 
placed in position, with 
earth fiUing the interstices. This was a work of difficulty, as 
often when the earth was banked against the logs, the rain 
would wash it back, rendering the labor fruitless. Nearly half a 
mile down the stream, on the opposite bank, the smaller of the 
hills was being rapidly prepared for the security of Peter's corps 
of Tories, under Col. Pfister. A breastwork was laid of rails, 
after the manner of a Virginia fence, and the whole filled in 
with fla.x pulled from an adjoining field. Slight defensive works 
were also built to defend the pass of the bridge and the ascent 
on the south of the redoubt. This labor extended far into the 
night of the 15th, when a short respite was given, the marksmen 
being called into the redoubt, and, with no fire to dry the troops, 
such rest taken as could be had with the wild whoops of the 
Indians or an occasional shot coming from the front. At mid- 
night a dispatch from Breyman was received by Baum, stating 
that help would be forthcoming the next day. Thus affairs 



remained at daybreak on Saturday, the i6th. The Berkshire 
militia had arrived in the night, and their chaplain. Parson Allen, 
immediately reported at headquarters. Stark had failed to get 
reliable accounts of Breyman's approach, but his energy of 
action saved him from the effects of Baum"s confident strategy. 
A plan of attack had been decided in council by Stark, his 
officers, and the Bennington committee, and with the early dawn 
preparations were made to carry it into effect. The rain, after 
fourteen hours' duration, abated in the night, and the morning 
broke clear and pleasant ; not a breath of wind stirred the drip- 
ping vegetation, and the swollen river showed by its turbid 
current the extent of the storm. Both camps were astir betimes 
preparing for the contest. It was a military axiom with Stark 
to strike only with a full preparation ; accordingly, orders were 
given for the drying and cleansing of all arms, after which rations 



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were served, and a deliberate review held of the condition of 
the troops. 

While these events are occurring, let us take a glance at the 
personal appearance of the belligerents. The American troops 
comprised eight incomplete regiments : five companies from 
Berkshire county, Massachusetts, Col. Simmons : the Sixth New 
Hampshire, Col. Nichols : the Eleventh New Hampshire, Col. 
Hobart (incorrectly given Hubbard in the reports) : the Twelfth 
New Hampshire, Col. Stickney ; and a hundred scouts. Col. 
Emerson. Vermont was represented by a small force of militia, 
Col. Williams : a regiment from Bennington and the towns 
adjoining. Col. Brush : and the Green Mountain Rangers, Col. 
Herrick. The Continentals of Warner, one hundred and forty 
in number, and Emerson's men, were yet several miles distant. 
These organizations were in process of formation, few of them 
being half filled. None had a distinctive uniform except the 



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Rangers — a body of Davy Crockett men, dressed in frocks 
with green facings. In the tactics of the forest these Rangers 
were at home, being a good match for the Indians, whose whoop 
they nearly imitated in tlieir night countersign, which was " three 
hoots of an owl. " 

The commander of the .\mericans. witii the trusty Warner 
at his side, moved rapidly 
through the camp. He ^ 
was in the prime of life, 
forty-nine years old, 
dressed as a Continental 
brigadier, and mountetl 
on a beautiful brown 
colt. His only staft" 
officer was Warner, si.x- 
teen years his junior; 
and his medical depart- 
ment numbered but one 
or two surgeons. The 
entire force was about 
1,750, of which New 
Hampshire furnished 
about 1,000 : Vermont, 
500; and old Berkshire, 
250. 

Baums force comprised 
about 1,000, of whom 
150 were Indians, 200 
Tories, 100 Fraser's 
marksmen, 100 Canadian 
Rangers, 50 Chasseurs, 
and 370 Riedesel's 
dragoons, or Hessians, 
acting as infantry. The 
British prisoners and 
dead numbered the next 
day over 900, and Bur- 
goynes orderly book 
makes his loss in the two 
engagements over 1,200. 
The disposal of Baum's 
force was well made : 
the Tories, or Peter"s 
corps, with a small 
platoon of Hessians, held 
the small hill, the Cana- 
dians were posted in the 
log houses, a few Hes- 
sians were posted in the 
breastworks west of the 

bridge, the chasseurs were at the east declivity of the large hill, 
while the remainder of the Hessians were in the redoubt sur- 
rounded by the Indian scouts in the forest. The German com- 
mander evidently wished to avoid battle ; at half past nine he 
withdrew his outposts, leaving the Indians only in the forest 
to guard against surprise. 

As mid-day approached, the Americans were massed to 




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receive orders ; the locality was a large field, the entrance to 
which was by sliding bars and tall posts peculiar to the vicinity. 
Stark leaped to the topmost rail, steadied himself by the tall 
post, and harangued his troops in the well-known sentences : 
" Now, my men, yonder are the Hessians ; they were bought for 
seven jwunds tenpence a man. Are you worth more ? Prove it. 

Tonight the American 
\ flag floats over yonder 
hill, or Molly Stark sleeps 
a widow ! " Throwing 
J knapsacks, jackets, and 
all baggage in heaps, and 
placing a guard over 
them, the force started. 
Col. Herrick's Rangers, 
with the Bennington 
militia, three hundred 
strong, were'sent to make 
a detour to Baum's right : 
Col. Nichols, with three 
hundred and fifty men, 
was sent to the rear of 
the enemy's left — the 
two forces, when joined, 
to make an attack ; two 
hundred men, under Col. 
Stickney and Col. Ho- 
bart, including part of 
the Berkshire militia, 
were sent against the 
Tory works with direc- 
tions to keep concealed 
in a corn field near by 
and await the opening of 
the action at Baum's hill. 
Foreseeing that there 
would be close work 
with the Tories, who 
were in citizens' dress, 
like his own force, .Stark 
gave directions to the 
attacking party that a 
corn husk in the hat-band 
should be the badge of 
his own men. A guard 
under a sergeant was 
posted near the bridge to 
prevent communication 
between the two wings 
of the enemy during the 
movements of the flanking parties, and the disposal of the forces 
was complete. 

As a cover to his designs. Stark now moved forward his 
reserve and employed the time in marching slowly around a hill 
in full view of the enemy. This seemed to perplex Baum. As 
his servant, Henry Archelaus, afterward said : " He scanned the 
movement with a field-glass, and directed his artillery men to fire 



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on the column." This cannonade did no great harm, and the 
ruse was continued with a variety of movements for nearly three 
hours. At length, about three o'clock, the flanking parties had 
reached their coveted position and communicated with each 




SrAkK RUNNING THE GAUNTLEl'. 
(See page 16 ) 

Other. Nichols was the first to open fire. The Indians retired 
before the advancing line, and, panic-struck, fled to the redoubt, 
reporting that the forest was full of Yankees. .Seeing the 
columns closing with a tightening coil around the liill. 
the savages dashed through the opening between the two 
detachments in single file, and, yelling like demons, made their 
escape, leaving a few of their number dead or prisoners. As the 
line pressed up to musket range, Baum opened a fire of small 
arms, and brought one of the cannons forward to the angle left 
exposed by the flight of his savage allies. The action became 
hot on both sides, but the assailants being sheltered by trees 
and brush, received little injury from the Hessian fire, delivered 
breast-high, without aim. New developments and attacks now 
rapidly ensued in every quarter ; the discharge of musketry was 
rapid, continuoiis, and obstinately maintained for nearly an hour, 
when an explosion occurred in the redoubt that shook the hill 
by its violence, sending blinding smoke and flying fragments 
among the combatants. Appalled at the detonation, there was a 
momentary lull among both parties. The tumbril, or ammuni- 
tion cart, of the Hessians had exploded. Comprehending 



instantly the accident, the Americans, with a cheer along the 
whole line, made a dash for the |jarapet. No troops could with- 
stand such a tide : it poured in at every angle with an impetu- 
osity that defied resistance. 

Muskets clubbed were opposed to bayonets : sabre and pike 
came into full play. Baum was driven back, unable to use his 
artillery, and all discipline in both forces seemed lost, except 
where the German commander and a few sturdy Hessians 
charged with sabre when unable to load muskets. Part of 
Eraser's marksmen rushed over the parapet and, leaving a few 
of their number dead and wounded, escaped. Baum was 
mortally wounded by a shot, and the force around him, panic- 
struck, fled down the hill to the south, where .Stark's forces were 
advancing to meet them. 

The action on the plain below, with the Tories under 
Pfister and the Canadians in the log houses, was but the san- 
guinary counterpart of the scene at the redoubt. At the first 
discharge from Nichols's column the concealed troops rushed 
through the corn, receiving three volleys, which they did not 
deign to return until they emerged from their cover upon a field 
of flax at the foot of the breastwork. Here girdled decayed 
trees gave them partial shelter, and behind these some of the 
men jjlaced themselves, while others sought the cover of the 
rank flax and corn. A rapid and continuous fire now com- 
menced on both sides. A small platoon of Hessians in the 
breastwork delivered at rapid intervals their fire, without aim, 
giving way at each discharge to the Tories who, with hanker- 
chiefs tied as turbans, appeared, alternating their volleys rapidly 
with the regulars. At the explosion in the large redoubt u|) the 
stream a charge was made, \\ ith a whoop and hurrah, on the 
Tories. It was novv corn husk against turban in a desperate 
death-grapple. Musket stocks sujiplied the i)lace of bayonets 
on both sides. The enemy was ])ushed back : Pfister fell. 




CATAMOUNT TAVERN, BENNINGTON, VT. 

mortally wounded, and the remnant around him called for 
quarter. The Canadians, seeing the capture of the two strong- 
holds, surrendered uith the chasseurs, «ho, hemmed in, made 
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A hasty disposal was made of the prisoners. The Tories, 
numbering about one hundred and sixty, were tied by pairs to a 
leading rope, with a horse attached ; the remaining captives, 
about four hundred and fifty, were permitted the honors of war, 
being marched in close ranks with a strong flank guard to Ben- 
nington. Here they were quartered in the church. 

It was now nearly six o'clock. Stark and Warner hastened 
to the redoubt. Baum, attended by his faithful servant Henry 
and a Hessian surgeon, was being removed from the field. 
Looking around at the fearful w'ork made in the redoubt. Stark 
remarked that the Americans had fought like hell-hounds. 
"Truly," said Baum, " they fought more like hell-hounds than 



Col. Safford and Major Rann. Halting a few moments at the 
river to take a hasty draught and fill their canteens, the troops 
pressed forward to meet the new danger. Every available man 
was hurried to the front. 

Skene had been posted by Baum about mid-day at the 
Sancoic Mill to communicate with Breyman and hurry forward 
the relief column. As the artillery in the redoubt had been 
playing on Stark's reserve for several hours, Skene appears to 
have taken the din of the battle for a continuance of the can- 
nonade. Posted on the line of retreat of the few who escaped, 
it seems impossible that the guard at the mill should be in igno- 
rance of the issue of the engagement ; but Skene afterward averred 




HOME OF ELIZABETH B. STARK, GEN. STARK S GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, MANCHESTER. 



soldiers." Baum and Pfister were taken to the same house, a 
mile distant, in Shaftsbury, where both died the following day. 
The Hessian commander has always been held in great respect. 
The best surgical care and nursing failed to save him ; but 
friend and foe uniformly testified that a braver man than 
Frederick Baum never lived. 

The force now remaining on the field were somewhat 
separated. Random firing was heard on the Cambridge road, 
in the vicinity of Sancoic Mill, two miles distant, and tidings soon 
came that a body of Hessians, six or seven hundred in number, was 
advancing, with two cannon. Nearly at the same moment the 
drums of Warner's regiment announced its advance, with Emer- 
son's scouts from Bennington, the colunm being led by Lieut. - 



that he knew not, when Breyman arrived, that liaum's fate had 
already been decided. He accordingly pressed the innocent 
Breyman on to the rescue. 

Groups of militia now appeared in the undergrowth near 
the road to the left of the Hessians; Skene declared them royal- 
ists, and galloped his horses into an intervening clearing, and 
hailed them. The answer was a volley of bullets. Instantly the 
column was halted, the cannon brought up to the front, and the 
whole force deployed across the road. The forest to the right 
and left now revealed bodies of militia, and both sides endeavored 
by flanking parties to get the vantage-ground. The Americans 
lacked unity of purpose in their movements, and officers were 
hurrying to and fro trying to form some semblance of a line of 



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battle ; but before this could be accomplished the troops were 
obliged to tall back. When they had thus been pressed for half 
a mile, an officer from Warner's corps dashed among them, 
entreating them to hold out, for help was just at hand. Hardly 
were the words spoken ere a grape-shot tore the mouth of his 
horse ; but notwithstanding the plunging of the animal, he kept 
his seat and urged on the wavering line. In a moment Warner's 
and Emerson's men, with 
strong flank guards, ap- 
peared advancing in line 
of battle. This was the 
nucleus wanted as a gather- 
ing point ; it was at once 
made available, and a 
most obstinate and bloody 
contest ensued. A dash 
was made, and one of 
Breyman's cannon cap- 
tured ; a countercharge, 
and it was retaken. Our 
forces were pressed back 
to within three quarters 
of a mile of the captured 
redoubt ; but the earnest 
efforts of Stark and Warner 
in bringing up Baum's 
captured cannon with 
more troops now gave 
strength for a brilliant 
charge, in which Breyraan 
again lost a cannon, and 
began to fall back, contest- 
ing every inch of ground. 
In about a mile he de- 
ployed into a field on his 
left and made a desperate 
effort to use his remaining 
cannon ; but the active 
militia were there before 
him in the undergrowth, 
skirting the clearing. 
Skene galloped to the 
cannon to encourage the 
artillery men, when his 
horse was shot, and fell, 
entangling his rider. Ex- 
tricating himself, he seized 
one of the artillery horses, 

cut the traces that held the plunging animal to the pole, mounted, 
and fled, leaving behind him the Hessians and Breyman fol- 
lowing in full retreat. The second fight was practically ended, 
and the day was won ! 

The fugitives pressed down the road, some falling in the 
mud before their pursuers, and begging in their foreign speech 
for mercy ; others, entangled by their armor in the bushes, sur- 
rendered to the groups following them. The darkness had now 
become so great that friend could hardly be distinguished from 
foe. The pursuers were recalled. 




Drill M.ister. 



HESSIAN SOLDIERS. 



The fruits of the victory were four brass cannon, about one 
thousand stand of arms, two hundred and fifty salires, eight 
loads of army supplies, four ammunition wagons, twenty horses, 
and the instruments of two drum corps. Two of the cannon are 
now in the state capitol at Montpelier, one is held at New 
Boston, N. H., and the fourth is lost. The prisoners, aside from 
officers, surgeons, and servants, were about seven hundred, nearly 

one hundred of whom 
were captured in the 
second action ; two hun- 
dred and seven of the 
enemy were t'ound the 
ne.xt day (Sunday) dead 
on the field of battle. 
Fjurgoyne's instructions to 
Baum and Skene were 
among the captured papers 
found on the officers. 

The American loss was 
proportionately small to 
that of the enemy, a large 
part of it being before 
the Tory breastwork. 
Stark, in his official report 
to the New Hampshire 
authorities, states that his 
brigade — nearly two thirds 
of the fighting force — 
lost forty-two wounded 
and fourteen killed. If 
Vermont and Massachu- 
setts lost in the same ratio, 
the aggregate would be less 
than one hundred. 

Among the incidents of 
the battle not hitherto 
found in print is the loss 
of Stark's horse while he 
was engaged in a recon- 
naissance on foot during 
the action. Professor 
Butler records it, having 
found the advertisement 
in an old file of the 
Hartford Courant, of date 
Oct. 7, 1777. It is as 
follows: 



Private Soldier. 



[From the Connecliiiit Cniininf, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 1777] 
TWENTY DOLl.ARS REWARI> 

STOLE from me the fulifcriber, from Walloomfcock, in the time of action, 
the l6(h of Auguft last, a brown MARE, five years old, had a flar in her 
forehead. Also, a doe fkin feated fa<Idle, blue houfing trim'd with while, and 
a curljed bridle. It is earneftly requested of all committees of fafety and 
others in authority, to exert themselves to recover faid thief and mare, so that 
he may \it brought to juftice, and the mare brought to me ; and the perfon, 
whoever he be, fhall receive the above reward for both, anrl for the mare alone 
one h,ilf of that fum. Ho-d' fcandaloiis, how difgrare/ul and ii;niiiinnio>is iinijl 



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it appear to all friendly aiul gcitcrtuts fouls lo have fiieli fly arlful, i/efii;ni>ii; 
villains enter into the field in the time of aetion in order to />illat;e, pilfer and 
plunder from their brethren when engaged in battle, 

John Stark, B. D. G. 
Bennington, iitli Sept. 1777. 

August 22, Stark sent his official report to Gates, thus recog- 
nizing the authority of his Continental superior officer ; but he 
sent no report to Congress, " thus," says Everett, in his biogra- 
phy (Sparks), "disdaining to make his success the instrument of 
a triumphant accommodation." 

The day before the news from Bennington was received at 
Philadelphia, Congress passed a resolution censuring Stark's 
course with Lincoln ; shortly after, it made honorable amends by 
giving him his full rank as brigadier in the national forces, 
accoinpanied with a vote of thanks to himself, officers, and 
soldiers. 

Stark left Bennington Sept. 14 with his brigade to join 
Gates, who had superseded Schuyler three days after the defeat 
of Ixumi and Bre) man. Three days later the Northern army was 
again made glad by the news of the retreat of St. Leger from 
the investment of Fort Stanwix, and the union of Arnold's 
force with the garrison. 

HESSIANS IN NUTFIELD. 

The heroism of the force under C.en. Stark at Bennington 
is more apparent when it is considered that the greater part of 
the enemy were veterans of the seven years' war in (lermany, 
and had been subjected to the severe discipline of the armies of 
Frederick the Great. The Hessians received their name from 
the Hesse provinces of central Germany, a mountainous region, 
producing a stalwart soldiery, brave and inured to the hardships 
of war. Seventeen thousand of these troops were obtained by 
King George III. at the reputed price of seven pounds tenpence 
a man, with a provision of further compensation to the families 
of such as should be killed or die of disease in the service. 

The formidable part of the British force at Bennington was 
the Hessians, and their pertinacious bravery and efficiency might 
have given a different turn to the fortunes of the day if they had 
not been handicapped by the irregulars, who were attached to 
them as allies. The greater part of our prisoners were Hessians, 
and they were treated with due respect, being marched to Ben- 
nington Centre, with flank guards, while the Tories were tied in 
pairs to a long rope which, in front, was attached to a stout 
horse. The whole crowd of prisoners were taken into the village 
church with a relay of guaids on the outside. The little edifice 
was not made for so large a congregation, and the floor timbers 
cracked ominously. A panic was created, and several prisoners 
rushed for the door. The guards, thinking it an attempt to 
escape, fired, and nine fell at the first volley. As soon as the 
true state of affairs was known and quiet restored in the crowd, 
great regret was e.xpressed by the citizens and soldiers. The 
fallen prisoners were honorably buried in the church yard, and 
the position of their graves is still pointed out to visitors. 

The Hessians of the Bennington battle were evidently a 
better class of soldiers, and morally superior to the troops cap- 
tured by Washington at Trenton. Stark had evidently a good 
opinion of them, and when he relumed to his own state with his 



victorious troops, brought also a number of Hessian soldiers with 
him. Several of these formed a prosperous farming colony in 
Merrimack township, on the road leading to the centre of the 
town, and their descendants are yet living in that vicinity or in 
the confines of old NiUfield. The families of Longa, Ritterbusch, 
Schillenger, and Archelaus will be readily recalled by our older 
citizens. The last mentioned of thes-; settlers, Henri Archelaus, 
was the body servant of Col. Baum, helped carry the wounded 
leader from the field, and attended him at his death the follow- 
ing day, Sunday, at the farmhouse hospital in the adjoining 
town of Shaftsbury. Archelaus lived in Weare, and died at an 
advanced age. 

Gen. Stark sent examples of Hessian trophies, uniforms, 
armament, and band instruments, to the authorities of the 
several states represented by troops in the battle. For more 
than a hundred years Hessian caps, swords, drums, and muskets 
have been displayed in the senate chamber of Massachusetts at 
Boston. Two small bronze guns mounted are at the capitol in 
Montpelier, Vt., and one of the larger guns, " Molly Stark," as 
is well known, is at New Boston. Some of our old military 
records mention the remaining cannon, the mate of the last 
named, and assert that it was assigned to a privateer in the war 
of 1S12, and lost at sea. 



STARK AT HOME.— No personality has left 
a deeper impress upon New Hampshire than 
that of John Stark. His was one of those massive, 
rugged, robust natures that are great of them- 
selves, not as the result of outward circumstances. 
He was one of the men who create events, not 
one of those who are created by events. His 
military career is more or less familiar to all 
readers, and has to some extent overshadowed the 
simple but interesting story of his home life, which 
is told by H. W. Herrick of Manchester : 

The vigor and decision shown by Stark in military life are 
traceable in the management of his secular affairs. He was 
emphatically a worker, and had no patience with indolence, 
mental or phyiical. His plans for farm labor were comprehen- 
sive and far-reaching in results, and for the period in which he 
lived he effectively wielded a large capital. This good manage- 
ment was noticeable in the expenses he incurred for government 
in his military capacity. The financial cost to New Hampshire 
for the ISennington victory was, for mustering, mileage, rations, 
wages, and contingent expenses, a trifle over $82,000 in the 
depreciated p:iper currency of the day, or $2,500 in gold. 
Stark did not die a rich man, in the modern understanding of 
the term ; he prudently used his resources, and thus answered 
the large demands on his hospitality and kept his estate intact. 
The interests of his farm and an extensive trade in lumber and 
tracts of woodland divided his time and labors. At one lime he 
owned, with two partners, the present township of Dunbarton, 
then called Starkstown, and operated largely in lumber. The 



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facilities for getting logs and manufactured lumber to market 
were greatly increased by the completion of the Amoskeag canal 
in 1807, and Stark's property in timber tracts was made much 
more valuable. Early in life he erected a mill for sawing lumber 
on Ray's brook, at the present site of Dorr's pond, and it was 
this mill that was so suddenly stopped at the news of the battle 
of Lexington, and permitted to rot and rust during the eight 
years of the Revolution. The remains of the dam are yet to be 
seen at low water. After the Revolution, Stark, in connection 
with Judge Blodgett, erected a saw and grist mill on the east side 
of Amoskeag falls, near the present entrance of the company's 
large canal. 

Notwithstanding the rough and stirring character of Stark's 



to that of a modern poultry exhibitor. One enormous fowl was 
his pet and pride ; the golden plumage, black breast, and fine 
sickle feathers were descanted on with true appreciation. This 
queer pet would eat corn from his master's hand, perch on his 
cane, crow at command, and was even admitted into the gen- 
eral's room, by his expressed wish, to while away the tedious 
hours when he could no longer sit on the lawn. 

The farmhouse of Stark was a plain two-story structure, with 
an ell, a front door and entry dividing it into two equal 
parts ; this, with four barns, and some smaller out-houses, com- 
prised the farm buildings. They were erected a few yards above 
the junction of the present Reform School road with the River 
road, and the well, with its cover of plank, is still to be seen. 






HOME OF GEN. STARK, MANCHESTER. 



life, he had naturally a literary taste, and was never more happy 
than when reading a favorite author. Books were comparatively 
rare in his day, but his library represented the standard authors 
of contemporary literature. Dr. Johnson's works and the Scotch 
poets of the early part of the century were his favorites. 

As second childhood came upon the old war veteran, after 
the age of four score and ten years, one of his great pleasures was 
the taming and fondling of his domestic and farm animals. 
Though always a lover of fine horses and cattle, he now found 
great satisfaction in petting and cherishing them. A very large 
bay family horse named Hessian was a special favorite, and he 
took pleasure, when sitting in his easy chair on the lawn, in the 
sun, in feeding and taming his poultry. One of his descendants 
describes the general's enthusiasm about his fowls as quite equal 



The house was erected by the general in the year 1765, and at 
that period was considered an edifice of notable qualities. It 
had handsome pediment caps to the windows and doors, "and 
corner boards generously ornamented, and was, within, of large 
dimensions and careful finish. The taste of Stark, when applied 
to house building, was somewhat peculiar and erratic, for while 
he had his rooms finished with the best skill and most costly 
material of the period, he would never suffer paint or room 
paper to be seen inside of his house. He took great pride 
in pointing to the width and quality of native woods used in 
the large and sumptuous panels in the walls of the rooms, and in 
the wood carving of a large buffet, or French sideboard, filling 
one corner of his dining room. When age and infirmity con- 
fined him to the house, he chose one of the lower front rooms. 



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where, from the window with an eastern exposure, he could see 
the first beams of the moriring sun. To secure more sunlight he 
gave directions to have one of the front windows enlarged, 
making it double its former dimensions. The injury to the 
symmetry of the building was urged by his friends, but all 
remonstrance was useless ; the capacity of the window was 
doubled, and until the alterations of the buildings many years 
afterward, the strange and whimsical window remained, a 
memento of the former proprietor. The house was burned about 
the year 1866, and the land adjacent, originally several hundred 
acres, diminished by sale and gifts to descendants, was purchased 
by the state as the site for the Reform School. 

Mrs. Stark died in the year 1814, at which time the general 
was eighty-six years old. An anecdote is told of him, as 
occurring at the funeral ceremony. The minister officiating 
referred in his remarks to the general and made some very com- 




lOijUKSFRlAN Sl'AI'liK OF ST.-VRK. 
Study for colossal work, — Rogers. 

plimentary allusions to his patriotic services for his country. 
The old veteran rapped tartly with his cane on the floor, saying : 
" Tut ! Tut ! no more of that ! and please you ! " This sudden 
interruption of the ceremony was soon followed by the more 
appropriate allusions to the virtues of Molly. As the funeral 
procession left the lawn, the old man tottered into his room, 
saying sadly : " Good-bye, Molly ; we sup no more together on 
earth!" Eight years after the death of his wife, Stark was 
called by the last summons of Providence. The latter years of 
his life were largely spent in his room, attended by two favorite 
granddaughters, Miss Molly Babson and Abby Stark. Though 
quite young at the time of his last sickness, Abby Stark was his 
constant nurse. Two weeks before the old veteran's death he 
was stricken with paralysis of one side of the body, the throat 
being so affected as to make it impossible to take nourishment. 
He could express his wishes only by signs and the expression of 
the eyes. Just before his last attack he had expressed to his son, 



Caleb, his wish and readiness to depart whenever it was (lod's 
will. His mind had been much exercised for a {t\s year- on the 
realities of the last great change, and the Bible had been the 
constant companion of his sick room. While unable to speak or 
move one half of his body, he would give a motion to the sound 
leg, and look up in the face of his nurse with a playful expression, 
signifying that a little of the old general was animate yet. After 
a fortnight's suffering, the old hero passed away. May 8, 1822. 
The funeral ceremonies were observed two days later, and were, 
at the general's request, simple and unostentatious. The 
morning was beautiful, and the sun of early spring had so 
warmed vegetation for a few days previous that the grass was 
green and luxuriant, and the trees were fast expanding their buds 
into young and tender leaves. In front of the house, beyond 
the road, a line of infantry, leaning on reversed arms, under the 
fragrant budding of the orchard, waited the time of their escort 
service. The day was quite oppressive in its heat, and many of 
the soldiers suffered in their warm and close uniforms. 

At the close of the religious service by Rev. Dr. Dana of 
Londonderry and Rev. Ephraim Bradford of New Boston, the 
procession was formed. The military moved in t'ront and at 
the sides of the body as escort. Mr. Ray, a much respected 
neighbor, led the horse Hessian, decked in war trappings, and 
the long procession of mourners moved from the lawn, and, at 
the sad funeral pace, proceeded to the family burial ground in 
the field, about a quarter of a mile distant. The young people 
of the town had, unknown to their elders, obtained a small 
cannon and stationed it some distance from the grave, and fired 
minute guns as the procession approached. The body was 
deposited in its last resting place, and the infantry, filing right 
and left of the spot, fired three volleys as their last mournfiil 
tribute of respect to the memory of the beloved ])atriot and 
soldier. (See sketch of Gen. John Stark, page 15.) 

stark's birthplace in derrv. 

The locality of this spot should be definitely described in a 
history of Nulfield, for as years pass, points of historical interest 
become harder of solution, where they are involved in doubt. 
In a national point of view. Stark was, for this province, the 
figure of greatest magnitude and interest in the colonial times, 
and rendered most invaluable service at the most critical point 
of the Revolution. The valuable historical manuscript of 
Robert C. Mack, the indefatigable collector for the local history 
of Nutfield, settled disputed points as to the early history of the 
Stark family in this country. In the winter of 1878, Mr. Mack 
sent a communication on this subject to a Boston newspaper, of 
which the following is an extract : 

The precise spot where the Slark house stood is about two miles south of 
the village of Kast Deny, on the direct road to Kilrea, and was on land now in 
possession of Mr. Joseph White. A thrifty young apple orchard occupies the 
site and near surroundings. It is on the west side of the highway, and only a 
very few feet distant from it, Mr. White, aided by Mr. fames Nowell, tilled 
the old cellar about twenty three years ago, and the space between the fourth 
and fifth rows of trees, reckoning from the lower side of the orchard, now marks 
the spot. Mr. Nowell, who was born and always lived near by, and whose 
knowledge of old landmarks is unquestioned, affirms this to be the place. He 
was so informed fifty years ago by an old lady, then nearly one hundred years 
of .age, and the unifonu traditions of the locality concur. In this connection I 



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appeiul an interesting incident commnnicated to nie by the Hon. Alexis Proc- 
tor of Franklin, a former near neighbor of Mr. White. He says : " I have 
had the White orchard pointed out to me a hundred times, by my father and 
many others, as the spot where Gen. Stark was born, and I do not have the 
slightest doubt as to the truth of it. In the summer of 1840 a party of fifty or 
si.\ty gentlemen, in half as many carriages, from Bradford, Newburyport, and 
other towns on the Massachusetts border, came along on their way to attend 
the great Harrison meeting at Concord. Gen. James Duncan of Haverhill, then 
or shortly after a member of Congress, desired to see the place where Gen. 
Stark was born. Accordingly my father went with them to the spot, and 
nearly all took a brick as a relic." In addition to the above testimony, I will 
state that a careful measurement of the original home lot of Jonathan Tyler, 
which subsequently, as we have seen, became the homestead of Archibald 
Stark, fully confirms the statements of Mr. Proctor and Mr. Nowell. 

A picturesque old cellar, half a mile further down the Kihea road, was 
pointed out with some doubt last autumn by the present writer to Charles M. 
miss, the genial secretary of the " Ilenninglon Battle Mcnument .Association," 
and the correspondent of a Manchester paper, as the Stark homestead, but 
later careful investigations clearly point to the White orchard as the veritable 
place. No harm, however, will result from the error, save, perhaps the wast- 
ing of a little cheap sentiment by our party over the gras.sy knolls and out- 
cropping rocks that we fancied had witnessed the young sports of the future 
hero of Bennington. 

Mr. H. W. Herrick of Manchester, the accomplished artist, has taken a 
sketch and will execute in water colors a lepresentation of the site, at the 
desire of the wife of Gov. Fairbanks of Vermont, a native of Deny, who was 
born within half a mile of the place. '' 

The neigliljorhood described in this letter is in the southeast 
corner of Derry, near the union of the Nashua and Rochester 
railroad with the Lawrence road, (Windham Junction), and 
locally is known by the whimsical name of " Derry Dock." It 
is said that this name was applied' by the natives from the fact 




ST.ARK S BIRTHPLACE. DERRV. 

that two brothers named Taylor, with their families, earlx' in this 
century moved to the vicinity from Uoston or Charlestown. 
where they were formerly established as ship chandlers or shi|j 
carpenters. Their farms being in the satne vicinity, the neigh- 
bors called this part of the town '-The Dock," and the term 
was in titiie applied to the whole southeast jiart of the town. 




STATUETTE OF STARK 
At Bennington. — Rogers. 



Kilrea street, shown on the map, page 78, was a country road, 
on which these Taylor farms were located. The extract from 
Mr. Mack's letter tnakes plain the location, and his statement is 
confirmed by Mr. H. Johnson, an elderly resident, whose ances- 
tors described to him the site of the house as it appeared nearly 
a hundred years ago. 

Archibald Stark moved to Manchester in 1736, or, as the 
place was then known, Tyngs- 
town, Harrytown, or Nutfield. 
At this time, John, the third 
child, was about eight years old. 
The father lived only about 
eight years on the nevv farm, 
now part of the State Industrial 
School land, when he died, 
leaving a young family, John 
being about sixteen years old. 
The burial of the father oc- 
ctu'red in a small rural ceme- 
tery, south of Amoskeag Falls, 
east side, and near the present 
site of the locomotive works. 
The surface was a gentle rise of 
ground, or knoll, and the spot 
contained, in 1854, only a 
dozen or twenty rude head- 
stones with a few bushes of 
birch and small pines inter- 
spersed. As the city advanced 

northward, these bodies were reinoved, in 1854, with the old 
slate headstones, to the Valley cemetery, that of Archibald Stark 
being thence transferred to the fatnily lot in Stark Park a year 
or two since. 

The Stark farm, after tlie death of its owner, was cared for 
by the brothers William and John, until twenty-four years after, 
when bounties and pensions received by John from the govern- 
ment for services in the old French wars on the border enabled 
him to take the farm into his own possession and build, in 1768, 
the house that was afterward known to be his headquarters for 
life. At this titne, Stark was about forty years old, and he was 
busily engaged in farm work and lumber traffic for seven years, 
when the call to Lexington and Bunker Hill was the beginning 
of his years of hard field service for his country. 

Stark's farmhouse has been described and engraved, and 
many of our elder citizens remember it well as it stood on the 
north River road, due east of the Industrial School buildings, 
and two or three rods west of the present road, where the old 
well, covered by plank, is still seen. The building was 
destroyed by fire in 1866. 

When the news of the comtniencement of hostilities at Lex- 
ington reached Nutfield, Stark was in one of his sawmills, near 
the outlet of Dorr's pond, and it is said that at a low stage of 
water the remains of the old rnill-dam are still visilile. From 
this place the futtire hero went to his task of recruiting a coni- 
panv, and in two or three days, it is affirmed by one historian, he 
enlisted enough for a regiment, with two hundred men to spare 
for the nucleus of another. 



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T^HE "MOLLY STARK" CANNON is now 
•I stored at New Boston, where it was photo- 
graphed for this work. This piece of ordnance is 
very handsome, profusely ornamented about the 
breech and as smooth as when brought from the 
foundry in i 747, except a few small pits about the 
muzzle, made by sulphur corrosions from powder. 
The gun is of French origin, having been cast at 
the government foundry near Paris. It was 
brought to this country with other similar guns 
when the French held Canada. In the strugafle 
between the French and English for supremacy a 
hundred and fifty years ago, this gun was captured 
by the victors and was held until 1777, when, 



OTARK'S PATRIOTISM.— The following 
^ characteristic letter was written in 1809 
by Gen. Stark to the committee having charge 
of the celebration of the battle of Bennington : 

At My Quarters, 

Derryfield, 31*' JUL\. 1809. 

Aly Friends, and Fellow Soldiers: — 

I received yours of the 22'"', instant, containing your fur 
vent expressions of friendship, and your very pohte invitation to 
meet with you, to celebrate the 16"' of August, in Bennington. 

As you observe. I "can never forget, that" I ''commanded 
American Troops " on that day in Bennington, — They were 
men that had not learned the art of submission, nor had they 
lieen trained to the art of war. But our "astonishing success'' 




THE "MOI-LY STARK CANNON. 



with others, it formed ]Kirt of the armament of 
Burgoyne's artillery in his invasion of Vermont 
and New \'ork. 

The enemy under Col. Baum had only two 
small cannon, and the relief column under 
Breyman also hatl two, of heavier metal, 
one of which was " Aiolly." The smaller pieces 
were captured in the afternoon struggle in 
the redoubt, and the two larger guns in the battle 
at sunset. Gen. Stark placed the gun " Molly " 
with the artillery company connected with what 
was then the " Bloody Twelfth Regiment," having 
its annual field day at Gofl^stown, and which he 
was in the habit of reviewing each year. The 
company was composed of men living in Goffs- 
to\yn and New Boston. 



taught the enemies of Liberty, that undiscijilined freemen are 
superior to veteran slaves. And I fear we shall have to teach 
the lesson anew to that perfidious nation. 

Nothing could afford me more pleasure than to meet "the 
Sons of Liberty '" on that fortunate spot. But as you justly antici- 
pate, the infirmities of old age will not permit : for I am row four- 
score and one years old, and the lamp of life is almost spent. 
I have of late had many such invitations, but was not ready, for 
there was not oil enough in the lamp. 

You say you wish your young men to see me, but you who 
have seen me can tell them, that I never was worth much for a 
show, and certainly cannot be worth their seeing now. 

In case of my not being able to attend, you wish my senti- 
ments, — then you shall have them as free as the air we breathe. 
As I was then, I am now — The friend of the equal rights of 
men, of representative Democracy, of Republicanism, and the 
Declaration of Independence, the great charter of our National 
rights : — and of course the friend of the indissoluble union and 
constitution of the States. I am the enemv of all foreisfn 



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influence, for all fuix-ii,'!! intluence is the inllucncc of tyranny. 
This is the only <'hosen spot for lilierly. — this is the only 
Re])ublic on earth. 

You well know, gentlemen, that at the time of the event 
you celebrate, there was a powerful British faction in the coun- 
try (called Tories), and a material part of the force we had to 
contend with was (at Bennington, Hoosick) Tories. This faction 
was rankling in our councils, till they had laid the foundation 
for the subversion of our liberties. But by good sentinels at our 
out])osts, we were apprised of our danger : and the Sons of 
Freedom beat the alarm, — and, as at Bennington, " They came, 
they saw, they conquered." But again the faction has rallied to 
the charge, and again they have been beaten. 

It is my orders now, and will be my last orders to all \olini- 
teers, to look well to their sentries : for there is a dangerous 
British party in this country, lurking in their hiding places, more 
dangerous than all our foreign enemies. And whenever they 
shall appear openly, to render the same account of them that 
was given at Bennington, let them assume what natiie they will : 
not doubting that the ladies will be as patriotic, in furnishing 
every aid, as they were at Bennington in "77, who even dis- 
mantled their beds to furnish cords to secure and lead them oft". 

I shall remember, gentlemen, the respect you, and "the 
inhabitants of Bennington and its neighborhood," ha\e shewn 
me, till I go to the country from which no tra\-eller e'er returns. 
1 must soon receive marching orders. John St.\rk.. 

P. S. I \\\\\ give you my \olunteer toast : " Live free or 
(lie: Death is not the greatest of exils." 

ROGER G. SULLIVAN, son of Michael and 
Julia (Kane) Sullivan, was born in Bradfonl 
Dec. 18, 1S54. Both his parents were natives of 
Ireland. His education was received at the com- 
mon schools in Bradford and at the Park-street 
grammar school, Manchester, whither his parents 
removed when he was eight years of age. Here 
he has since resided with the exception of four 
vears spent at Merrimackport, Mass., where he 
worked at carriage painting. In December, 1874, 
he hired a small store on Amherst street and began 
the manufacture of the Gold Dust ten-cent cigar. 
From this modest beginning his business has con- 
stantly increased, necessitating removal six times 
to more extensive quarters, until in 1S94 he 
erected the large four-story building which he has 
since occupied. Mr, Sullivan subsequenth' put 
upon the market the New Gold Dust cigar, chang- 
ing this name later to "7-20-4," from the number 
of his factory, 724 Elm street. This brand at once 
met with popular favor and achieved a reputation 
exteJjiding over man\' states. The magnitude of 
Mr.: 'Sullivan's business is illustrated b\- the fact 



that the output of the factory averages more than 
six million cigars a year. In 1877, he was married 
to Susan C., daughter of True O. and Susan 
(Gerrish) Fernald of Manchester. Three daugh- 
ters have been born of this union : Minna E., 
Susan A., and Emma F. Mr. Sullivan is a mem- 





ROGER G. SULLIV.AN. 

ber of the Cathedral parish, of the Knights of 
Columbus, of the Amoskeag \'eterans, and of the 
Derryfield Club. He is one of the trustees of the 
Amoskeag bank, and one of the' most successful 
of Manchester's manv successful business men. 
(See cut of residence, page 286.) 



HENRV WALKER HERRICK, son of 
Israel E. and Martha (Trow) Herriek, was 
born in Hopkinton Aug. 23, 1824. His mother, 
from whom he seems to have derived his artistic 
tastes, was educated at a boarding school in 
Charlestown, Mass., where she learned to do some 
creditable work, specimens of which her son shows 
to visitors with commendable pride. Her best 
work, however, was done in fostering in her son 
his earlv inclinations, for al tin- aee of eioht vears 



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she taught him to paint flowers and kindred 
natural objects. His education, begun in the com- 
mon schools, was continued at Hancock Academy. 
Becoming interested in wood engraving, he studied 
the art two years by himself, and found employ- 
ment in Concord and Manchester as an engrayer. 
At the age of twenty Mr. Herrick went to New 
York and began his studies at the National 
Academy of Design. 
His progress was 
such that after six 
months he began 
book engraying in 
the service of the 
Appletons, working 
for several years 
largely on the de- 
signs of Felix O. C. 
Darley, then the lead- 
ing American artist 
in genre pictures. 
During this time Mr. 
H errick executed 
commissions for Har- 
per & Bros., the 
American Tract So- 
ciety, Carter Bros., 
and other firms. In 
1852 George L. 
Schuyler, grandson 
of Gen. Philip Schuy- 
ler of Revolutionary 
f a m e , and M a r \' 
Hamilton, grand- 
daughter of Alexan- 
der H. Hamilton, 
started the school of 
design for women 

at the corner of Broadway and Broome street. 
New York, and Miss Cordelia Chase of Hopkin- 
ton, said to be a relative of Salmon P. Chase, was 
made its principal. It speaks well for Mr. Her- 
rick's artistic standing at that period in New York 
that he was introduced to Mr. Schuyler by Benson 
J. Lossing, the well-known historian and artist, as 
fitted for the position of teacher in the new school. 
He continued his connection with this school for 
six years, during two of which he was princii)al. 




HENRY W. HERRICK. 



until its union with Cooper Institute. About 
this time he received an invitation to assume 
charge of the art department in \'ale College, the 
foundation of which was given by Mr. Street, a 
wealthy patron of Yale. He continued, however, 
to do work for New York houses, the American 
Bank Note Company, and others, among other 
things redrawing designs for the Imperial Bank of 

Russia. After twen- 
ty-one years spent in 
New York, Mr. Her- 
rick returned to Man- 
chester in 1865, still 
continuing work as 
designer and en- 
graver for firms in 
the metropolis. He 
also executed the 
illustrations for the 
large volume of 
^sop's Fables, issued 
by Hurd & Hough- 
ton. He has done 
some good work in 
oil, but in these later 
years he has distin- 
guished himself by 
his work in water 
colors. Many years 
ago, however, he gave 
proof of his worth 
as an artist by his 
beautiful drawings 
of birds, done for 
Prang, which in nat- 
ural color and pose 
have not since been 
excelled. Today it 
is as a landscape artist that he is conspicuously 
good, and he finds in the scenery around Manches- 
ter themes worthy of his pen and pencil. He has 
exhibited pictures in oil and in water color in the 
Academy of Design, in the .\merican Water Color 
Society, and in the Boston Art Club, and also 
placed in the Centennial exhibition in Philadel- 
phia studies from a favorite subject, the life of 
Gen. Stark. He is the author of " Water Color 
Painting," a standard work. j)ublished by Devoe 



WILLErS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



&. Co., profusely illustrated and colored by hand. 
Mr. Herrick is a man of independent character, 
of indomitable industry, and for many yeais 
was the only resident artist who pursued 
his vocation as a life work. He came to 
Manchester in 1842, and from the first he has 
encouraged in every way the growth of art in 
the city, has been one of the main pillars of the 
Art Association, has 
given courses of free 
lectures on art which 
were largely attended 
by the best citizens, 
has seen his pupils 
growing up around 
him, and still docs 
not abate his early 
enthusiasm. Mr. 
Herrick is a member 
of the First Congre- 
gational church, has 
devoted much time 
to mission work, and 
has always been an 
advocate of whatever 
promotes the moral 
and religious welfare 
of the city. He mar- 
ried, in 1849, Miss 
Clara Parkinson of 
New Boston. They 
have three sons : one 
a minister in Min- 
neapolis, Minn., one 
an accountant in the 
auditor's office, Man- 
chester, and one a 
civil engineer. Mr. 
Herrick is the author of "Stark 
and at Home." (See page 296.) 




REV. AMEDEF. LE.SSARD. 



at Bennington 



REV. AMEDEE LESSARD, the first French 
priest ordained by Rt. Rev. Bishop Bradley 
for the diocese of Manchester, was born in St. 
Johns, Iberville, Richelieu Valley, Quebec, March 
10, 1865. When he was three years of age his 
parents came to Manchester, and his home has 



been here ever since. After attending the public 
schools for five years, and just as he was about to 
graduate from the Lincoln-street grammar school 
he was sent to the College of Ste. Therese, Quebec, 
where he successfully completed the full eight 
years' course. Having thus prepared himself to 
study for the priesthood, he entered the Grand 
Seminary of St. Sulpice at Montreal and finished 

his theological 
studies in 1889. Dec. 
22 of that year he 
was ordained in the 
old chapel at Mc- 
Gregorville. T h i s 
chapel was destroyed 
by fire in the follow- 
ing October. Jan. I, 
1890, Father Lessard 
was appointed assist- 
ant to Rey. E. M. 
O'Callaghan of 
Portsmouth, and in 
the following May 
was transferred to 
St. Mary's church. 
West Manchester, 
where he remained 
until his appointment 
as assistant pastor of 
St. George's church, 
in May, 1891. Here 
he rendered valuable 
assistance in the erec- 
tion of this beautiful 
church edifice, and 
otherwise demon- 
strated his efficiency 
and zeal. Jan. 3, 
1895, he was transferred to St. Augustin's church 
as assistant to the pastor. Rev. J. A. Chevalier, 
and Oct. 21, 1895, within less than six years after 
his ordination, was appointed by the bishop as 
pastor of Gonic, N. H. Father Lessard has shown 
good executive abilities, is popular with all classes 
of the community, and it is expected that his 
pastorate will be highly successful. (For Diocese 
of Manchester and sketch of Rt. Rev. Bishop 
Bradley, see page 109.) 



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FRANCIS BROWN EATON, son of Peter 
and Hannah Hale (Kelly) Eaton, was born 
in Candia Feb. 26, 1825. He received a common 
school and academic education, and in 1S50 
removed with his parents to Manchester. In 1852 
he published the " History of Candia, Once Known 
as Charmingfare, with Notices of some of the 
Early Families." At this time there were but few 
town histories in the 
state. Soon after 
removing to Man- 
chester Mr. Eaton 
became assistant 
editor of the Daily 
American, and dur- 
ing the session of 
congress after Presi- 
d e n t Franklin 
Pierce's inauguration 
(1853) was its Wash- 
ington correspond- 
ent. Soon after 
r e turning fro m 
Washington, Mr. 
Eaton was offered 
the position of libra- 
rian in the new city 
librarv, and at the 
solicitation of Hon. 
Samuel N. Bell he 
accepted the place, 
and retained it for 
nearly ten years, dur- 
ing which time he 
was a frequent con- 
tributor to the Dailv 
Mirror, writing book 
notices and a series 

of articles under the title of " Grapes from 
the Vines of Piscataquog." He was likewise 
correspondent of the Boston Traveller. From 
December, 1861, to January, 1863, he was 
editor and proprietor of the New Hampshire 
Journal of Agriculture, until it was sold and 
merged in the Mirror and Farmer. In 1864, the 
Boston Daily Advertiser having sent one of its 
staff to the front, Mr. Eaton took his place in the 
office until the end of the war, when he occupied 




FRANCIS B. EATON. 



for a year an assistant editor's desk in the office 
of the Boston Journal, occasionally doing repor- 
ter's dut3^ At the expiration of the year he was 
offered the position of night editor, then held by 
the veteran John Callaghan Moore, well known 
among the newspaper fraternity of that day. For- 
bidden l)v a troublesome weakness of the eyes to 
accept tills place, he received, through the good 

offices of William 
E. Chandler, an ap- 
pointment as in- 
spector in the cus- 
toms department and 
was stationed at 
Montreal and later 
at Portland, Me. Re- 
turning to Manches- 
ter in 1869, he began 
business as a l)u(ik- 
seller, conducting 
with it also a circu- 
lating lil)rarv, and 
continuing thus for 
eleven years. During 
this time he com- 
piled and edited 
sketches of the life 
and public services 
of Hon. Frederick 
Smyth, which were 
printed for private 
circulation in 1885. 
Mr. Eaton was for 
some years a director 
of the Franklin- 
Street Congrega- 
tional Society, super- 
intendent of the 
of the church, in 
He is 



clerk 



Sunday school, and 

which he now holds the office of deacon, 
author of the semi-centennial history of that 
church published in 1894. For some years after 
disposing of his bookstore, he was a clerk in the 
First National bank, of which he is now a director, 
and also trustee and vice president of the Merri- 
mack River Savings bank. In 1854 Mr. Eaton 



married 
Candia. 



Lucretia, 



daughter 



)f John Lane of 



WILLBT'S BOOK OF NUTFIBLD. 



He. ABBOTT was born in Sunapee in 1852. 
He was educated in the common schools 
and at Colby Academy, New London. At the 
age of sixteen he started out in life for himself, 
going first to New Brunswick, N. J., and remain- 
ing there a year, when he was called home l)y a 
death in his family. The quiet town of New Lon- 
don had few opportunities to offer to an ambitious 
young man, and accord- 
ingly Mr. Abbott went 
West in 1872, and 
worked a year in Michi- 
gan. Returning to New 
Hampshire, he was mar- 
ried to Miss Emma A. 
Davis, daughter of W. 
W. Davis of Warner. 
To her counsels and 
faithful assistance Mr. 
Abbott ascribes much 
of the success that has 
attended his business 
ventures. He went to 
Derrv in 1874 and filled 
various positions in Col. 
Pillsbury's shoe factory 
until 1880, when, poor 
health necessitating a 
change of occupation, 
he opened the Derry 
exchange and sale stable 
on Birch street, his stock 
consisting of one horse 
and carriage. The fol- 
lowing year his father- 
in-law became associated 
with him, and the busi- 
ness was enlarged by 

the addition of a carriage commission trade, which 
soon proved most successful. Increase of business 
from year to year and the need of larger accom- 
modations led to the purchase, in 1887, by Abbott 
& Davis, of the livery stock of the Hotel Bradford. 
S. G. Clifford was admitted to the firm at the same 
time, and remained about a year. Mr. i\bbott 
decided to add the manufacture of carriages and 
wagons to his already large and flourishing busi- 
ness, and for this purpose bought of Col. Pillsbury 




H. C. ABBOTT. 



a lot of land directly opposite the passenger 
station, and erected upon it the large and com- 
modious manufacturing plant which is today one 
of the chief industries of Derry. The buildings 
consist of a carriage repository 93 x 36 feet, three 
stories high, on the first floor of which is the 
stable ; on the second floor the sale and store 
rooms for baled hav, straw, and moss, and on the 

third floor a carriage 
storage room and a hall 
for public use ; a car- 
riage elevator 18x36 
feet is attached to this 
building; the factor)-- 
72 X 28 feet, the first 
floor of which is used 
for office and sale room, 
and the second floor for 
l)ainting rooms ; the 
wheelwright shop 28 x 35 
feet, three stories high, 
in which the wheel- 
wright work, carriage 
trimming, and harness 
making are done ; the 
blacksmith shop 30 x 60 
feet, and a second stable 
50 X 40 feet. Mr. Ab- 
bott also occupies the 
Hotel Bradford stable. 
He has recently pur- 
chased of Col. Pillsbury 
the building known as 
Smith's block. All these 
buildings, with his beau- 
tiful residence, and the 
stock in trade, represent 
an investment of about 
$40,000, making the most important industry in 
town next to the shoe business. Since the retire- 
ment of Mr. Davis from the firm in 189 1, Mr. 
Abbott has been sole proprietor of this large 
business, which was founded by their united efforts. 
His carriages are rapidly attaining an enxiable 
reputation throughout New England. The hose 
wagon and the hook and ladder truck of the Derry 
Depot fire department were built by Mr. Abhult 
in 1 89 1, according to plans made by him. The 



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following year he was chosen on the board of 
engineers of the fire department and served for 

two years in that 
position. The sale 
and livery branch 
of Mr. Abbott's 
business is under 
the supervision of 
his son, William 
Wallace Abbott. 
Mrs. Abbott has 
charge of the book- 
keeping. In poli- 
tics Mr. Abbott is 
a Republican, hav- 
ing voted for every 
presidential candi- 
date of that party 
since 1872. He is a prominent member of Passa- 
connawav Tribe, I. O. R. M., of Manchestei', also 
of the A. O. U. W., a Knight, and a Sir Knight. 
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Abbott are : W^illiam 
Wallace, born June 4, 1S76; Ethel Emeline, born 
June 14, 1878; Harry Hampton, born June 24, 
1 89 1, died Aug. 9, 1892 ; James Hamilton, born 
July 15, 1895. 




WILLIAM W. ABBOTT. 



IT cost £\2 IS. lod., or more than $60, to 
ordain Rev. William Morrison, Feb. 12, 1783, 
and set him apart "to the work of the gospel 
ministrv, to take charge of the second parish in 
Londonderry." This is the itemized bill of ex- 
penses, as found in an old account book : " Four 
gallen of Rum, £\ i6s. ; half a pound of allspice, 
5s.; 19 pounds Chise, 19s; 3 pounds raisons, 4s. ; 
I quarter pepper, 2s.; Cinnamon, is. 6d. ; Nutmeg, 
IS. 6d. ; Wine 2 gallons, £\ 4s. ; i pound tea, 12s. ; 
12 pound shugar, 12s.; 2 quarts molasses, 2s. 6d. ; 
Brandv, 5s. 4d. ; 6f pounds butter, £\ los. ; jour- 
ney to Newbury, £\ is.; 2 bushels and a half of 
wheat, /,"i los. ; Souse, Syder, Bread, salt, pork, 
trouble of house and Woman's labor, £\ i6s." 
With all that allspice, pepper, cinnamon, and nut- 
meg, and with the brandy, rum, cider, and wine, that 
ordination must have been both spicy and spirited. 



nPHE FIRST SCHOOLHOUSE in Nutficld 
A was built in 1723. It was of logs, and was 
only sixteen feet by twelve. Robert Morrison 
was one of the first, if not the first teacher. The 
building was situated on the common, near the 
meetinsi-house. 




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TAMES BALDWIN, son of James and Pris- 
<^ cilia (Keyes) Baldwin, was born in Wcstford, 
Mass., May 31, 181 2, heiny a direct descendant of 
Henry Baldwin, who won distinction as a citizen 
of Woburn, Mass., as early as 1640. He made 
good use of such time as he had in the public 
schools, and very early in life began work for an 
older brother, making bobbins and shuttles for 
looms. Remaining with his brother until 1857, 
he came in that year to Manchester and founded 
a business of his own on somewhat more advanced 
|)h;ns, which he conducted successfully until his 
death. May 22, 1893. He began with crude 
machinery in a small way in Mechanics' Row, on 
the site of the present Jefferson Mill, in 1839, and 
built the bobl)in factory in West Manchester in 
1876. Mr. Baldwin gradually expanded his plant 
until at the time of his death the company of which 
he was the head employed nearly three bundled 
hands, and the facilities were still more enlarged 
by greatly improved machiner\-, so that the com- 
pany was always up to the times when not leading 
as producers of bobbins, shuttles, spools, and 
\arious other wood attachments for machinery. 
Mr. Baldwin wnsely provided for the perpetuation 
of his business by forming a stock company before 
his retirement, taking in his sons and naming the 
C()r|)()ration the James Baldwin Company. At the 
present time John C. Littlefield is president, J. F. 
Baldwin treasurer, and Luther C. Baldwin secre- 
tary. The business sagacity and ingenuity of the 
founder is strongly inherited by the sons, who con- 
trol the stock of the company and conduct the 
business. In 1840, Mr. Baldwin married Mary 
Huttrick of Concord, Mass. Six children were 
born to them, and three of these are still living in 
Manchester: James Frank, Mary E. (wife of 
John C. Littlefield), and Luther Chase Baldwin. 
Their mother died in 1857, and in 1858 Mr. 
Baldwin married Julia A. Hunton. One son by 
this marriage, Charles Fred Baldwin, was several 
years principal of the Ash-street school, Manches- 
ter, and is now principal of the Forster Grammar 
School, Somerville, Mass. In 1880 Mr. Baldwin 
married Mrs. Eliza W. Brown, who is now living. 
Early in youth he became a member of the Bap- 
tist church in Nashua, and after his removal to 
Manchester united with the First Baptist church 



in this city, serving as deacon for many years. 
Very positive in his views, he would not waver in 
any case when he considered he was right. He 
was unostentatious in the performance of every 
duty, retaining to the last of his long and busy life 
a genial and lovable disposition. 



[T CA' NO' SP'AK THE WORDS.— Among 
i current traditions of controversies in the reli- 
gious societies of Londonderry is one concerning 
the introduction of instrumental music in the West 
Parish church. For economical as well as political 
reasons, the Presbyterian societies were very aus- 
tere and rigid in their adherence to certain customs 
of worship, and bitterly opposed to the ornamenta- 
tion of religious houses, or the use of pleasing 
accessories, or cennforting conveniences, such as 
bells, organs, fiddles, stained glass, cushions, and 
stoves. These were all abominations and hin- 
drances to the pure ideal worship. But a change 
came after long years of singmg in the West 
Parish led by some man who carried in his pocket 
a pitch pipe, or tuning fork made of steel, and 
after the announcement of the psalm, or hvmn, 
struck the keynote, holding the instrument to his 
ear, and with his voice sounding out the intervals 
to make the necessary transposition, and starting 
the tune. The progressive younger generation 
heard of the bass viol being used in the churches 
at Portsmouth, Haverhill, and Boston, and desired 
to have one purchased for Londonderry. To 
bring about the desired feeling in reference to 
the purchase of the bass viol, it was deemed 
expedient to canvass the community and take 
account of opinions and carry a subscription paper 
for those to sign who were in favor of buying 
the bass viol. When the subscription list arrived 
at the house of Deacon David Brewster, who lived 
near Scobey's Pond, where Major John Pinker- 
ton's first store was erected, the deacon glanced at 
the list and handed it back, saying: " I ha' objec- 
tion to 't." When asked for it he replied: "It 
ca' no' sp'ak the words in kirk." Some of the 
congregation were pleased to say they thought 
the bass viol could speak the words almost as 
plainly as the deacon. 



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WALTER GREENLAND AFRICA, son 
of J. Simpson and Dorothea Corbin 
(Greenland) Africa, was born in Huntingdon, 
Penn., April 1 1, 1863. His education was obtained 
at the public and private schools of that town and 
at Juniata College. After his graduation he 
entered the service of the First National bank of 
Huntingdon, where he remained about a year and 
a half, devoting his 
leisure time to the 
study of civil en- 



gineering. 



Leaving 




the bank, he became 
connected with the 
firm of Elkins & 
W i d e n e r , widely 
known as successful 
promoters of gas, 
electric and water- 
works enterprises, 
where he formed an 
intimate acquaint- 
ance with that im- 
portant class of prop- 
erties. In 1885 he 
leased the Huntino- 

o 

don gas works, which 
he successfully oper- 
ated until 18S7, wlien 
he came to Manches- 
ter, at the time of 
the organization of 
the People's Gas- 
light Company, 
which soon acquired 
control of the Man- 
chester Gaslight 
Company. At first 

Mr. Africa was superintendent of the new con- 
cern, but two years later he was chosen treasurer, 
and since then has acceptably filled both positions. 
Before leaving Pennsylvania, his abilities and 
technical knowledge had been recognized by the 
state authorities, and he was designated to inves- 
tigate the glass sand mining industry of that 
state, publishing an illustrated report upon it in 
1886. His present responsible position with the 
People's Gaslight Companv by no means fills the 



WALTER G. AFRICA. 



scope of his business activities. He is treasurer of 
the Manchester Electric Light Company ; treasurer 
of the Brodie Electric Company, which is engaged 
in the manufacture of electric specialties ; treasurer 
of the Ben Franklin Electric Light Company; 
director of the Merchants' National bank, and of 
the board of trade. During the time that Mr. 
Africa has been connected with the companies the 

gas business has in- 
creased fifty per cent, 
and the electric light 
company now fur- 
nishes 680 arc and 
7,000 incandescent 
lights, in place of 37 
of the former and 
240 of the latter in 
1887. Since coming 
to Manchester he has 
associated himself 
with the Masonic 
fraternity, holding 
membership in Wash- 
ington Lodge, Mt. 
Horeb Royal Arch 
Chapter, Adoniram 
Council Royal and 
Select Masters, and 
Trinity Command- 
erv, Knights Tem- 
plar, and wearing the 
insignia of the thirty- 
second degree by 
virtue of his mem- 
bership in Edward 
A. Raymond Con- 
sistory of Nashua, 
Ancient and Ac- 
cepted Scottish Rite. He is also a member of the 
Derryfield Club and of the Franklin-Street Congre- 
gational church. Mr. Africa is an active member 
of the New England Association of Gas Engineers, 
of the American Gaslight Association, and uf the 
Guild of Gas Managers. Nov. 17, 1887, he mar- 
ried Miss Maud Eva Cunningham of Huntingdon, 
and they have three children : Dorothea Cunning- 
ham, born Nov. 18, 1888; Esther Bessie, born Jan. 
21, 1890; and Walter Murray, born April 22, 1892. 



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^Tijwsasj^ 



DANIEL GOODWIN, son of Josiah and he ran to the nearest tree and began to climb for 
Esther (Jones) Goodwin, was born in Lon- dear Ufe. The bear paused a moment to smell the 
donderry Sept. 9, 1832. He married Abby C. hat and then followed Dodge to the tree. He 
Austin Oct. 19, 1853, and thev had three children : was about six feet from the ground, and the bear, 
Ira F., born Oct. 13, 1856; John H. S., born Sept. rising upon her hind legs, gave one stroke with 

her fore paw, the nails just catching in the sole of 
Dodge's shoe. In a moment he was out of her 
reach and shouting vigorously for help, making, 
if possible, more noise than the cow. The other 
men soon rescued him, shot the bear and took the 
cubs alive. This story is given on the authority 
of Jonathan McAllister of Londonderrv, who 
heard it from his father, Isaac McAllister, who 
shot the bear. 




lOSEPH WHITE, the son of John and Han- 
^ nah (Bradstreet) White, was born in Rowley, 
Mass., in 1824 and moved to Derry in 1846. In 
April, 1851, he married Miss Sarah A. Stickney of 
Derry, and bv her had four children : Hannah M., 



DANIEL GOODWIN. 



2 1, 1859, and A. Adella, born Nov. 27, 1861. 
Mr. Goodwin enlisted in Co. K, Fourth New 
Hampshire Volunteers, Sept. 18, 1861, and rc- 
enlisted Feb. 28, 1864. He was killed while on 
picket dutv in front of Petersburg, June 27, 1864. 




ISAAC DODGE AND THE BEAR.— Bears 

^ made frequent attacks upon the cattle in the 

early davs of the Nutfield colony. It is related 

that one Sunday afternoon the settlers around 

Bear Hill, hearing the prolonged bellowing of a 

cow as if in distress, immediately rallied to learn 

the cause. The animal was found under a thick 

hemlock tree endeavoring to evade the attacks of joseph white. 

a she bear and her cubs. The ferocious beast was 

biting and tearing the cow's flesh, occasionally Ella A., Joseph W., and John F., the last named 

securing a piece for her cubs. At the approach dying in 1863. In January of the following year 

of the men the bear hastily withdrew with her Mrs. White died, and in April, 1866, Mr. White 

oiifspring, and was met by Isaac Dodge, who was was again married, this time to Miss Melinda 

hurrying to the scene. Throwing his hat at her, Noyes. 



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/^OL. GEORGE WASHINGTON LANE 

^-^ was born in Candia Sept. 27, 18 19, his 
parents beinir Thomas B. and Polly (Worthen) 
Lane. Like many others who have won marked 
success in life and attained high distinction among 
their fellow men, he was nurtured at the rugged 
breast of poverty. When he was only six years of 
age his father died, and being the eldest of five 
children, it fell to his lot to do what little he could 




COL. GEORGE W. LANE. 

to help his mother bear her heavy Inirdens. So at 
that early age he went to work in a mill, his pay 
being $6.25 a month, $6 of which he gave to 
his mother. After the first si.x months his wages 
were raised to $1 I, so that until he was fourteen 
he was enabled to save considerable of his earn- 
ings. Going to Boston, he served a seven years' 
apprenticeship at the carriage builder's trade, 
which he learned thoroughly. Indeed, it was one 
of his chief characteristics to do well whatever he 



had in hand. After learning his trade he went 
into business for himself, and so intent was he 
upon achieving success that for a time he worked 
365 days a year. Prosperity attended his efforts, 
and having accumulated considerable property he 
purchased the American Hotel in Baltimore and 
was its landlord for twenty years. While here he 
had frequent opportunity of visiting the National 
Congress and hearing the oratory of Webster, 
Adams, Clav, and other famous statesmen. His 
early lack of educational advantages was thus 
supplemented in the verv best of schools. During 
his residence in Baltimore his interests were by 
no means confined to the hotel business, for he 
visited Europe several times and secured contracts 
with the Russian government to raise sunken 
vessels in the Baltic and Black seas and elsewhere. 
In this as in everything else his efforts were 
crowned with success. He also introduced an 
American car coupler into Germanv, and was 
interested in various other enterprises, all of which 
prospered under his hands. On the outbreak of 
the Rebellion in 1861 he offered his services to 
the government and was appointed bv President 
Lincoln to a position of trust in the Army of the 
James. He was with Gen. Butler in New Orleans, 
and a strong friendship grew up between the two 
men. After the close of the war he obtained from 
the United States government a license to raise 
the ironclad Keokuk, sunk at Charleston, and also 
to raise other sunken vessels. When this work 
had been accomplished he settled in Boston, 
where he was superintendent of a water and alarm 
gauge company until 1869, when he purchased the 
General Derbv place in East Derry. From his 
earliest vouth it had been the dream of his life to 
own this historic estate, and now at the ao;e of fifty 
his dream was realized. He expended nearly 
$60,000 in improving the farm and in making it 
the best in New Hampshire. It contains three 
hundred acres, half of which is under cultivation. 
Col. Lane put in nearly four miles of underground 
drainage, built extensive barns and stables, and 
began farming in a scientific, systematic way and 
with the thoroughness which characterized every- 
thing he undertook. The house (a cut of which 
is given on page 21), built in old English style in 
1765, is 50 feet front, 45 feet deep, three-story, 



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with ohscrvatorv on top, two-story ell, 22 x 84. 
The cattle barn is 45 x 117; horse barn, 50 x 40 ; 
the work (jr repair shop, 20 x 30, contains horse- 
))ower to saw wood and thresh grain; the swine 
department is 20 x 40 ; the creamery is 18 x 20 with 
ell, with pony-power for making butter. The 
house was owned by General Derby in 1825, who 
was visited by Lafayette and his aides. Judge 
Prentice once lived there, as did also Judge Wood- 




ernor's Horse Guards of Concord while they were 
in existence. In 1876 a company of infantry was 
organized in Candia, his native town, and attached 
to the first regiment of the l)rigade. It was named 
the Lane Rifles in honor of the colonel. The 
companv was disbanded in 1887, and the equip- 
ments were taken to Derry for the use of a 
companv organized there. Col. Lane was a 
member of St. Mark's Lodge, No. 44, A. F. and 
A. M., and of Gen. Stark Colony, Pilgrim Fathers, 
of Pelham. He was married three times, his last 
wife being Miss Emma C. Kent of Pelham, to 
whom he was united March 24, 1884. His death, 
which occurred Jan. 15, 1894, was mourned by 
hosts of personal friends and acquaintances, for 
although a man of iron will and at times a seem- 
ingly rough exterior, he had a tender heart, and 
there are many who can testify to his ipiiet deeds 
of charity. Giving employment to a great num- 
ber of men, he was a public benefactor and con- 
tributed much toward the material prosperity of 
Derry. The history of New England, rich though 
it is in examples of distinguished success attained 
under difficulties, shows very few instances of 
distinction won bv men so heavily handicapped as 
was Col. Lane in his youth. All that is mortal of 
the e(jl()nel rests in Forest Hill Cemetery, East 
Derry. 



MRS. EMMA C. (KENr) LANE. 

bury, and Judge Doe was born there. Although 
the farm is on high land, there is a pond, fed by 
springs, back of the buildings which supi)lies them 
with running water. This pond, which is nine 
hundred feet long and one hundred and fifty feet 
wide, is 239^ feet higher than the railroad track at 
Derry Depot. 

Col. Lane was always actively interested in 
military affairs. He was a member of the Amos- 
keag Veterans of Manchester, and of the Gov- 



A BOUT LIBRARIES.— It was in 1793 that 
■'»■ the historian of New Hampshire, Dr. Bel- 
knap, recommended the establishment of social 
libraries in towns, and it was two years later that 
an association of gentlemen, among whom were 
Amos Weston, father of e.\'-Gov. Weston, Isaac 
Huse, Elijah A. Nutt, Samuel Jackson, Ben- 
jamin F. Stark, John Stark, Jr., Samuel P. Kidder, 
forty-seven in all, founded the Social Library of 
Derryfield. For about thirty years it seems to 
have supplied the needs of the town, and at the 
last recorded meeting of the shareholders Ephraim 
Stevens, Jr., Lieut. Job Rowell, and James Griffin 
were chosen directors, and Samuel Jackson 
librarian. 

It was about sixteen years later when the 
Manchester Atheneum was founded. The Amos- 
keag corporation gave $1,000, the Stark and Man- 



WILLBT'S BOOK OF NUTFIBLD. 



Chester $500 each, and $500 was paid in member- 
ship fees, toward the new enterprise. The price 
of shares was fixed at $14, and young men were 
admitted to the reading room on payment of one 
half the value of a share. Admission to the 
library and reading room was $3 a year. The 
organization was as follows: Samuel D. Bell, 
president ; Cyrus W. Wallace, vice president ; 
David Gillis, Daniel Clark, and William P. Newell, 
directors ; William C. Clarke, secretary ; Herman 
Foster, treasurer ; David Hill, librarian. The 
rooms were in the second story of No. 6 Union 
block, recentlv the office of Lucien B. Clough. 
In his inaugural address of that year. Mayor 
Frederick Smyth advocated the establishment of 
a free public library, and several gentlemen con- 
nected with the Atheneum proposed to transfer 
its books and other articles of value to the citv for 
that purpose. The offer was accepted with its 
conditions, which were, in brief, that not less than 
$1,000 a year should be appropriated for the pur- 
chase of books and periodicals, and that the 
current expenses be provided for. In the autumn 
of 1854 the library was removed to Patten's block 
and installed under the care of Samuel N. Bell. 
The board of trustees was as follows : Frederick 
Smyth, mayor, David Clark, president of the com- 
mon council, ex-officis ; Samuel D. Bell, Daniel 
Clark, David Gillis. William P. Newell, Ezekiel A. 
Straw, William C. Clarke, Samuel N. Bell. The 
last named was chosen treasurer and Francis B. 
Eaton, librarian. The library was open to the 
public Nov. 8, 1854. For a time the conveniences 
for delivery J were of the most primitive kind. 
There were about 4,000 books on the shelves, 
more than half of which were taken out in the first 
two months. Affairs, however, were soon put into 
better shape, and a reading room was opened. On 
the morning of Feb. 5, 1856, Patten's block was 
partially destroyed by fire and nearly all the books 
were burned. The volumes rescued were hastily 
removed to Smyth's block and quarters provided 
for them in Merchants' Exchange, where they 
remained for nearly a year. In the meantime new 
books were purchased, the old replaced as far as 
possible, and the public was served with but brief 
interruption. At the close of the year, better 
rooms were provided in Patten's block and the 



library was installed in its old place. Here it 
remained for about fourteen years, when the 
present building was erected by the city at a cost 
of $30,000 on land given for that purpose by the 
Amoskeag Company. (See cut on page 147.) 
No member of the original board of trustees, 
except e.x-Gov. Smyth, is living. Gentlemen who 
have been chosen as trustees since the first organ- 
ization in order of time are as follows: Lucien B. 
Clough, David Gillis, Samuel Webber, Phinehas 
Adams, Waterman Smith, Isaac W. Smith, 
Nathan P. Hunt, Moodv Currier, Thomas L. 
Livermore, Benjamin C. Dean, Herman F. Straw, 
Walter M. Parker, Charles D. McDuffie, and 
Frank P. Carpenter. Of the above Messrs. 
Clough, Gillis, Adams, and Waterman Smith have 
deceased, and Messrs. Webber, Livermore, and 
Dean have removed from the citv. The trustees 
at present are as follows : William C. Clarke, 
mayor, John T. Gott, president of the common 
council, ex-officis ; Isaac W^. Smith, chosen in 
1872; Nathan P. Hunt, in 1873; Moody Currier, 
in 1S76; Herman F. Straw, in 1885; Walter M. 
Parker, in i8qi; Charles D. McDuffie, in 1892; 
Frank P. Carpenter, in 1895. The librarians have 
served as follows: Francis B. Eaton, from 1854 
to 1863 ; Marshall P. Hall, October, 1863, to June, 
1865 ; Benjamin F. Stanton, June, 1865, to April, 
1866; Charles H. Marshall, April, 1866, to 1877; 
Mrs. Mary Jane Davis Buncher, July, 1878, to 
February, 1894. Mrs. Buncher was succeeded by 
Miss Kate E. Sanborn, the present librarian. 

From time to time the library has received 
bequests and donations of considerable amount, 
the largest being that of Dr. Oliver Dean, which 
has now increased to nearly $7,000, and will be 
devoted to the purchase of technological and kin- 
dred treatises ; the Eliza Eaton bequest of 
$2,974.59 for the general purposes of the library, 
and the Mary E. Elliot fund of $1,039.28, to be 
devoted to the purchase of works on medical 
science. Ex-Gov. Moody Currier has given an 
edition of Bohn's classical publications and some 
of the early Christian Fathers, and the Hon. 
Gardner Bremer of Boston gave 683 volumes of 
various works, mostly of the Tauchnitz edition. 

Much of the work incident to the formation 
and progress of the library was gratuitously done 



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by Hon. Samuel N. Bell, who was trustee and 
treasurer until his resignation in 1879, when he 
was succeeded by N. P. Hunt, who is practically 
the general manager of the library. It may be 
said that the library, valuable as it is, has been 
very much restricted as to its best use by the 
public from lack of proper catalogues and from 
the defective shelving, which, after a few years of 
growth, made it impossible to group works on 
kindred topics together. This was the fault of no 
one in particular, save that the appropriation for 



T^HE SNOW STORM OF 1888.— This storm 
■* was the most severe that has ever been 
known in Manchester. It began Sunday evening, 
March 11, very gently, continuing through the 
night and the next forenoon, when the gates of 
the Arctic regions seemed to have been opened, 
and the storm burst with terrific fury over the city. 
It lasted all that day and far into the night. The 
wind blew a gale, piling up mammoth drifts in 
picturesque forms, blockading the railway trains, 
and tearing down telegraph wires in all directions. 







ELM S'l'KK.Er, MANCHKSIEK. NEXl UAV AIIEK I HE lUi; SIDKM, MARCH I3, 188S. 



current expenses was never large enough to 
warrant the introduction of a better system. It is 
indeed only in recent vears that the business of 
the librarian has risen to the dignitv of a protes- 
sion, while to shelve, catalogue, and make acces- 
sible to the public a large librarv, or one even with 
40,000 volumes, but which is growing every day, 
is no easy task. It is believed now, however, that 
the trustees have taken the matter in hand and 
that they are to be congratulated on liaving secured 
the services of such a competent librarian. 



Tuesday morning the snow was twent\' inches 
deep, clinging to everything it touched, making- 
artistic and grotesque images from the plainest 
and most obscure objects. Business men closed 
their stores and offices long before the usual hour 
on Mondav and startetl home amid blinding sheets 
of snow that prevented one seeing an object a 
block distant. The barometer fell from 30.68 to 
29.27 in twenty-four hours. The storm of March i, 
1886, was less severe in the quantity of snow, but 
the wind was about e(|ual in velocity. 



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MATTHEW THORNTON, one of the signers 
of the Declaration of Independence, was 
horn in Ireland in 1714, his father, James Thorn- 
ton, emigrating to America two or three years 
later, and taking up his residence first at Wiscas- 
set, Me., and subsequently at Worcester, Mass., 
where the son was educated. He studied medicine 
and began practice in Londonderry about the year 
1740. Here he acquired a wide reputation as a 
physician, and in the course of several years of 
successful practice became comparativelv wealth}^ 
taking an influential part in the alYairs of the town. 
In 1745 he joined the expedition against Cape 
Breton as a surgeon in the New Ham])shire 
division of the armv, consisting of five hundred 
men, and of the number onlx' six died during the 
campaign, although they were subjected to exces- 
sive toil and constant exposure. The troops, 
a company of which was from Nutfield, under the 
command of Capt. John Moor, were emploved, 
during fourteen successive nights, with straps over 
their shoulders and sinking to their knees in mud, 
in drawing cannon from the landing place to the 
camp, through a morass. Dr. Thornton's name 
appears frequentlv in the Nutfield records. In 
1758 he drew up and headed a memorial to Gov. 
Wentworth and the General Court, thanking him 
for their "late gracious Act, in which it is Stipu- 
lated that Londonderry shall ha\-e no more than 
three Taverns and two Retailers, for the present 
and four Ensuing years, and we had rather the 
number were diminished than increased." He 
was a representative to the General Court in 
1758-60 and a moderator of the town meeting in 
1770-71, and again in 1776. He was president 
of the provincial convention which met May 17, 
1775, after the termination of the British govern- 
ment in New Hampshire, and was a member of 
the convention of Dec. 21, 1775, which afterward 
resolved itself into a house of representatives. In 
September, 1776, he was appointed by that body 
a delegate to represent New Hampshire m Con- 
gress, but he did not take his seat until November, 
four months after the passage of the Declaration 
of Independence. He .immediately acceded to it, 
however, and his signature is among those of the 
fifty-six immortals. He was subsequentlv appointed 
a judge of the superior court of New Hampshire, 



having previously been chief justice of the court 
of common pleas. His knowledge of the law 
seems to have been acquired by private study. 
He removed from Londonderry to Exeter, and 
later fixed his residence in Merrimack, having 
purchased the confiscated estate of Edward Gold- 
stone Lutwyche, situated on the Merrimack, near 
Lutwyche's (now Thornton's) Ferry. Judge 
Thornton died while on a visit to his daughter, 
Mrs. John McGaw, at Newburvport. The monu- 
ment over his grave in Merrimack bears this 
inscription : " Erected to the memory of the Hon. 
Matthew Thornton, Esq., who died June 24, 1803, 
aged eighty-nine years. The honest man." He 
was not (mly honest, but he had a ready wit, like 
most of the Scotch-Irish race. About the year 
1798 he attended as a spectator the sessions of the 
legislature, which met at Amherst, about eight 
miles from his home. Happening to meet a 
former neighbor of his at Nutfield, who was then 
a member of the legislature, and who was not dis- 
posed to underrate his own consequence, the latter 
said to the judge: " Do you not think the Gen- 
eral Court has much improved since vou had 
a seat in it ? Does it not possess more men of 
abilitv now and more eloquent speakers? For 
then, vou know, there were but five or six who 
could talk ; but now all we farmers can make 
speeches." The judge replied : " To answer that 
question I will tell you a story about a farmer who 
lived a short distance from my father's home in 
Ireland. He was very exemplary in his observance 
of religious duties, and made it a constant practice 
to read a portion of Scripture every morning and 
evening before addressing the throne of grace. It 
happened one morning that he was reading the 
chapter which gives an account of Samson's 
catching three hundred foxes, when his wife inter- 
rupted him by saying: 'John, I'm sure that cannot 
be true, for our Isaac was as good a fox hunter as 
there was in the country, and he never caught but 
about twenty.' ' Nonsense ! ' replied the husband, 
' you must not always take the Scripture just as it 
reads. Perhaps in the three hundred there might 
have been eighteen, or maybe twenty, that 
were real foxes ; the rest were all skunks and 
woodchucks.' " The legislator drew his own 
inferences and was silent. 



NUTFIELD RANGES AND BOUNDARIES. 



ALTHOUGH the boundaries of the original 
grant of Nutfield specified in the conveyance 
of John Wheelwright in 1719 appear to have been 
verv definite, it is nevertheless apparent, on close 
examination, that the only fixed line in the case 
was the bank of the Merrimack river, with no 
starting place, no distances, and no terminal point 
except the uncertain line of Dunstable. The 
boundaries of Chester were not fixed at that date ; 
consequentlv the northern limit of Nutfield was 
tentative. Haverhill limits were not settled, and 
Nutfield's eastern boundary was likewise undeter- 
mined. The southern boundary of Nutfield, 
dependent upon the limits of Dracut and old Dun- 
stable, was indefinite, as the assumptions of their 
proprietors were not established bv valid deeds, 
and in the settlement of the state line and the 
limitations of royal charters they did not touch 
Nutfield anywhere. But the western boundarv of 
Nutfield could not be moved by the encroachments 
of neighbors or the decisions of the general court, 
although it is seen by the charter of Londonderry 
in 1722 that even the last definite boundary of 
Nutfield, the Merrimack river, was sacrificed to 
Litchfield, and no original side or corner can now 
be claimed as coinciding with the description 
afforded in the first deed. 

The accompanying map, covering about fiftv 
square miles, includes the principal ranges and 
extends eastward two hundred and forty rods over 
the original line of Haverhill, southward nearly to 
the line of Windham, w^estward to Litchfield, and 
northward to Manchester. The Double, English, 
Layers, Aikens, High, South Double, Three 
Quarter Mile, Half Mile, Dock, Hill, Canada East. 
Middle, W^est, and Fourth Ranges, and a large 
number of short ranges not distinctively named, 
are included. For more than forty years, attempts 



have been made by various persons to draw a plan 
of the original allotments of land, and it is not 
claimed that the present map is absolutely perfect. 
Some of these persons had the first two volumes 
of the town records and worked for months inces- 
santlv to put the descriptions in order upon a 
chart, but in the end each ]ironounced the result 
a failure and the undertaking impossible. Among 
those who gave a large amount of time to this 
patchwork without being able to make the pieces 
join together, were John N. Anderson, Col. Robert 
Thompson, Andrew W. Mack, Washington Per- 
kins, Joseph R. Clark, and Robert C. Mack. The 
last named, with help of his brother, who was 
a surveyor, approached the nearest to mapping the 
township, but his attempts failed in the end. He 
was able to prepare the ranges and locate the 
original settlers, and had plans in detatched por- 
tions for nearly every part of the town, but he 
found it impossible to join them together into one 
map. As already stated, this first and onlv map of 
the township, showing a plan of the farms, is not 
absolutely perfect, but the main features are cor- 
rect, and it contains all the elements necessary for 
the construction of the most accurate and com- 
plete drawing, as it was made from two indepen- 
dent copies of the town records, made for the 
purpose of continued and uninterrupted work, and 
indexed for this special undertaking. These two 
volumes of the town records are paged differently 
from the originals in the keeping of the town 
clerk, and to facilitate any further improvement in 
this map or in others, numbers are placed on the 
maj) to indicate the pages in the records where 
full descriptions of the lots are to be found. The 
numbers with dashes below them indicate the 
pages of the second volume, and the others the 
pages of the first volume. 



523 



STATE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. 



IN 1855 the state legislature authorized the the school has been under the management of a 

governor and council to appoint a board of board of seven trustees, appointed by the governor 

three commissioners, empowered to buy a tract of and council, who have yearly chosen a superinten- 

land and erect buildings thereon, to provide a dent. The law requires that one or more of the 

" house of reformation for juvenile male and trustees shall visit the institution every two weeks, 

female offenders against the law." Popular sen- at which time the scholars shall be examined in 

timent at the time seemed to be hostile to the the schoolroom and workshops. Once in three 

measure, and it required several years to demon- months a majority of the trustees are required to 

strate its wisdom. Hon. Frederick Smyth of examine the institution in all its departments and 

Manchester, Hon. Matthew Harvey of Concord, make a report showing the results of their exami- 

and Hosea Eaton of New Ipswich were appointed nations. The superintendent, who is also treas- 

commissioners, and they selected as the site for urer of the school, has charge of the funds, lands. 



the proposed institu- 
tion the farm which 
was once the home 
of Gen. John Stark, 
nearly two miles 
north of the Man- 
chester city hall, on 
the Merrimack river 
ro a d , containing 
about one hundred 
acres. The price paid 
was $10,000, and 
another piece of ten 
acres was purchased 
soon" after at a cost 
of $1,000. The build- 
in g, which cost 
$34,000, was begun 
in the spring of 1856 




STATE INDUSTRIAI, SCHOOL, MANCHESTER. 



buildings, and all 
other property. In 
addition to his other 
duties he is required 
to keep a register 
containing the name, 
residence, and a^e of 
each scholar, with 
the date and term of 
commitment and the 
time and manner of 
discharge. If any 
scholar is found in- 
corrigible and his 
continuance in 
school prejudicial to 
its .management and 
discipline, steps are 
taken to 'have him 



and was ready for occupancy in the spring of 1858. removed. Instances of this kind are not frequent. 

It was dedicated May 12 of that year, the address but they sometimes happen. The trustees have 

on the occasion being delivered by Hon. T. M. the right to bind out any scholar as an apprentice 

Edwards of,Keene, author of the bill establishing or servant to any inhabitant of the state of good 

the institution. The first superintendent of the moral and religious character, for any time not 

school was Brooks Shattuck, who continued in exceeding the term for which he was sent to the 

charge until April, 1866, when he was succeeded school. Any scholar distinguishing himself by his 

by Isaac H. Jones, who remained about four years, obedience, diligence, and good conduct, may be 

and was followed by Edward Ingham. The latter discharged by the trustees at the annual examina- 

also remained four years, and was then succeeded tion, and the superintendent also has the power to 

by John C. Ray, whose date of appointment was let any of the boys or girls out on probation, if he 

July 2, 1874. The institution continued to bear sees fit to do so. All minors under seventeen 

its original name until 1878, when it was changed years of age who may be delivered to the superin- 

to Reform School, and in 1882 it was given the tendent with a proper warrant for their detention, 

name which it now bears. From its establishment by a proper officer, are received at the school. 

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About 1,500 have been committed to the school from the very first, the only serious misfortune 
since its organization. The number in the school which it has met being an incendiary fire which 
April I, 1895, was: boys, loi ; girls, 17; total, 118. nearly destroyed the building Dec. 20, 1865. The 
The institution is supported by an annual appro- property was insured for $20,000, of which sum 
priation of $6,000 from the state; l)y the interest the appraisers decided to pay $17,000, which the 
on a legacy of $6,000 from the estate of James trustees refused to accept. They claimed that the 
McKeen Wilkins of Manchester; by the interest companies should either pay the full sum or put 
on a legacy of $3,000 from the estate of Moody the building in as good condition as it was before 
Kent of Pembroke; by a legacy of $1,000 left by the fire. The insurance companies finally agreed 
Miss Louisa Penhallow of Portsmouth for the to do the latter, and the building was rebuilt, 
purchase of books; by the interest on a fund of How poorly it was done was shown by the large 
$400 established by Hon. Frederick Smyth, in amount of money expended since then for neces- 
memory of Emily Smyth, for the purciiase of sary repairs and alterations. Some of the trustees 
books to be distributed as prizes among meri- regretted that the offer of the appraisers had not 
torious scholars ; and by the income from the shops been accepted and that they had not expended the 
and farm. For a number of years the annual money themselves. After the fire the inmates 
income from the chair shop was nearly $5,000. were kept temporarily in the Stark house and the 
There is also a factorv in which stockings are Gamble house, which stood near by. During their 
knitted by machinery, which has yielded a hand- occupancy of the former it was set on fire and 
some profit. The town from which any person is consumed. In 1867 the Gamble estate was pur- 
committcd is required lo pay to the trustees for chased at a cost of $2,590. Later additions to the 
his board or instruction a sum not exceeding $1.50 property have been made by the purchase of the 
per week. The total annual receipts amount to Prince estate for $5,000 and of sixty-five acres of 
about $15,000, and the expenditures about the pasture land in Weare and Deering. The farm 
same. The institution has grown and prospered now ranks as one of the best in New Hampshire. 

Many a boy has gone out 
from the institution and 
become a useful and re- 
spected member of society, 
and manv a girl has helped 
to make a happy home. 
x*\mong those who have 
been inmates of the school 
the records show that one 
has become a successful 
physician, another a rail- 
way conductor, another a 
chief engineer of a fire 
tlcpartment in a large city, 
while a host have become 
good farmers, good me- 
chanics, and sober, honest 
men. (See biographical 
sketch and portrait of 
Hon. John C. Ray, super- 
intendent and treasurer of 
the State Industrial School, 
c. M. Floyd's clothing store, al-^nchesler. P^&^ 264.) 




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327 



CHARLES MILLER FLOYD is a native trade, is a member of the Odd Fellows, Knights 
of Dcrrv, horn June 5, 1861, son of Sewell of Pythias, Patrons of Husbandry, and of the 
and Sarah J. (Sleeper) F'loyd, his father being a Calumet and Derryfield Clubs, 
farmer and both parents being natives of X^cxxy. 
He attended the common schools and Pinkerton 

WILLIAM W. POOR was born April i, 
1833, in Derry, in the house where he now 
resides. On his father's side he is descended from 
John l^oor, who settled in Newbury, Mass., in 
1636, the line of descent being: John,' John,-' 
Jonathan,' Daniel, ^ David, ^ John," John C.,^ Wil- 
liam W.^ The family took its origin in this 
manner : Prince Henry, third son of William the 
Conqueror, found a poor friar in the wilds of 
Normandy who had the rare ability to make short 
prayers. This pleased the prince and satisfied his 







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^ 


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r^>> 







CHARLES M. FLOYD. 

Academy of Derrv, and started out early to win 
fame and fortune. He first went to Haveriiill, 
Mass., working three years in a hardware store 
and then three more in a clothing establishment. 
Returning to Derry, he was employed for a while 
in a shoe shop, but his liking for active business 
caused him to locate in Manchester, where he 
bought out the old established clothmg house of 
Cumner »Sl Co. He introduced some modern im- 
provements into the store, and soon built up an ex- 
tensive business. In September, 1893, h^^ bought 
out the Manchester One Price Clothing Company, 
and has since personally managed one of the largest 
and best equipped clothing houses in the state. 

He also conducts a large clothing store in Nashua, conscience, and the man was instantly invited to 
He married Carrie E. Atwood on Sept. 16, 1887, become chaplain to his royal highness. Not 
and has one child, Marion B., aged five years, unwilling, the poor friar packed his few belongings 
He is a member of the board of education, served and the ne.\t hour was a follower in the noble 
in 1892 and 1893 as a director of the board of train. When Henry became king of England the 




WILLIAM W. POOR. 



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WTLLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



chaplain was made prime minister, and on the 
assumption of surnames he became Roger Poor, 
with the legend : "Pauper, non in spe " — "Poor, 
not in hope." The family is descended from the 
brothers of this man, who were men of muscle and 
valuable aids to the king in his wars and quarrels, 
and who received large grants of land and titles of 
nobility in return for their fidelity. Careful inves- 
tigation shows that there are very few of the name 
who cannot trace their origin to this source. On 
his mother's side Mr. Poor is descended from 
Robert Boyce, a charter member of the town of 
Londonderry, and for forty years a magistrate of 
the colony of New Hampshire. The line of 
descent is Robert,' Alexander,' Susan,^ William W.^ 
He also claims descent in the sixth generation 
from Robert Calef of Boston, who dared to con- 
tend with Cotton Mather and the clergy and 
magistrates of Massachusetts over the iniquitous 
witchcraft delusion. Calef's published works were 
publicly burned for heresy in the yard of Harvard 
College in 1700. Mr. Poor, being the voungest 
member of his father's family, was obliged to 
remain at home to watch over his parents in their 
declining days, a dutv he faithfully performed. 
His father died in 1884 at the age of eightv-seven 
years. In youth he received the usual education 
afforded by a country district school, and later at 
intervals studied several terms at Pinkcrton 
Academy. No fixed curriculum was then pre- 
scribed at that institution, the student selecting 
and continuing such studies as suited his tastes. 
Mr. Poor became proficient in mathematics, pur- 
suing his studies to the end of the textbooks and 
beyond. On reaching his majority he was placed 
in many positions of trust. He was made a deputy 
sheriff before he was twenty-two years old, and 
later was selectman four years, representative to 
the general court two terms, member of the state 
constitutional convention in 1876, trial justice of 
Rockingham county for twenty-five years, and in 
1895 ^V'ls made first justice of the newly organized 
police court of Derry. He has also presided at 
twenty-seven town meetings in Derry, leading in 
this respect all predecessors. He has never sought 
office outside his own town, and has always dis- 
couraged the use of his name in connection with 
political honors. He always votes the Republican 



ticket if the candidate is worthy, and he also takes 
an active part in every question of local interest. 
Dec. 27, 1859, he married Clara A., daughter of 
Leonard and Clarissa (Taylor) Brickett, and has 
three daughters and one son by the union. 



JOHN DUNCAN PATTERSON, now of 
^ Manchester, N. H., was the oldest son of 
Thomas and Hannah (Duncan) Patterson, and 




JOHN DUNCAN PATTERSON. 

was born in Londonderry April 13, 1821, on the 
old Patterson homestead. This farm of 150 acres 
was first owned by Peter Patterson, then by his 
son Thomas, who married Elizabeth Wallace. 
He gave it to his son Thomas, who married 
Hannah Duncan, daughter of John and Jane 
(McMurphy) Duncan. Thomas Patterson gave it 
to his son, John Duncan Patterson. This home- 
stead was thus owned by four generations of the 



WILLEY'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



320 



Patterson family. Mr. Patterson was married in 
Candia Sept. 24, 1846, to Hannah Eaton, daughter 
of Henry and Hannah Eaton, who was horn 
April 7, 1823. Their son, William Wallace Pat- 
terson, was horn Sept. 29, 1847, and graduated 
from Dartmouth in 1868. He now resides in 
California and is not married. Their daughter, 
Hannah Elizaheth Patterson, was born Jan. 19, 
1850. She married Judge Henry E. Burnham of 
Manchester Oct. 22, 1874. Mr. Burnham was 
born in Dunbarton, N. H., Nov. 8, 1844. They 
have three daughters : Gertrude Elizabeth Burn- 



Grand Prelate of the Grand Commandery of 
Knights Templar of New Hampshire. In politics 
Mr. Patterson is a Republican. 



ROBERT MACK, son of Andrew and Isabella 
(Clark) Mack, was born in Londonderry 
Feb. 16, 1784. He was a grandson of John Mack, 
who came from Londonderry, Ireland, in 1732 and 
settled in the West Parish. Working on his 
father's farm and in the blacksmith shop until he 
attained his majority, he established himself, in 




THE PATTERSON HOMESTEAD, LONDONDERRY. 



iiam, born Jan. 28, 1876, who is now in her sopho- 
more year at Wellesley College ; Alice Patterson 
Burnham, born Feb. 9, 1878, who is now a pupil 
at the Manchester High School, and Edith 
Duncan Burnham, born March 16, 1885, who is 
now attending the Lincoln Grammar School. 

In Masonry Mr. Patterson has attained to 
the thirtv-second degree. He has been High 
Priest of Mt. Horeb Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, 
Commander of Trinity Commandery of Man- 
chester, N. H., Grand tligh Priest of the Grand 
Royal Arch Chapter, Grand Commander and 



1807, as a blacksmith at New Boston, remaining 
there and at Milford until 18 13, when he returned 
to Londonderry, built a house, and married Annie, 
daughter of Deacon Robert Clark of New Boston, 
who was related to the Clarks and Wallaces of 
Nutfield. He was town clerk in 1814, '16, '18, 
and '20, alternating with Major Peter Patterson 
of the East Parish ; was selectman twelve years, 
and member of the legislature five vears. His 
knowledge of local history and genealogy was 
unsurpassed, and his authority unquestioned. Mr. 
Mack died Sept. 9, 1870, in his eighty-seventh year, 



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WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



TASON J. KIMBALL, son of Levi and Mar- 
<J garct (Jones) Kimball, was born in Wind- 
ham, Vt., March 2, 1829. Both his parents were 
musical, and he early manifested a decided talent 
for his chosen profession. So proficient did he 
become in vouth that at the age of sixteen he led 
a chorus of thirtv-five voices, in which were six 
members of his own family. In 1856 he went to 
Boston and pursued his vocal studies under B. F. 
Baker, Mme. Frazer, and Myron W. Whitney, 
receiving instruction also from the best masters in 
harmony, John K. Paine, O. B. Brown, and Kellar. 




JASON J. KIMBALL. 

During liis long stay in Boston Mr. Kimball 
became prominent as a bass soloist of pronounced 
abilitv and a director of musical societies. The 
musical atmosphere in which he lived well fitted 
him for his future work. Coming to Manchester 
in 1872, he devoted the rest of his life to upbuild- 
ing and improving music in the citv, and in this 
noble work no one has accomplished more than 
he. For twentv-three vears he had charge of the 
musical instruction in the public schools of Man- 
chester, and manv of the leading; singers of the 
city were numbered among his private pupils. 



His work in the schools was successful in the 
highest degree, and hundreds are indebted to him 
for all they ever learned of music. His rare 
abilit)' as a musical director was demonstrated in 
Mav, 1895, at the opening concert of the Philhar- 
monic Societv, when the public had the oppor- 
tunity of listening to the excellent work of a 
chorus of six hundred voices from the higher 
grades of the Manchester schools under his leader- 
ship. Throughout New^ Hampshire and adjoining 
states he was well known as a soloist, and he is 
still remembered in Boston for the prominent part 
he took in the famous concerts of the Handel and 
Haydn societv. His death occurred suddenly at 
his home on the evening of Sept. 27, 1895. There 
had been a rehearsal of the Unitarian choir, of 
wdiich he was a member and leader, and after the 
singers had gone home Mr. Kimball was playing 
on an old Cremona violin which his brother had 
brousrht from Washinorton, and Mrs. C. E. Burn- 
ham was accompanying him on the piano. They 
had reached the last bar of the selection, Raff's 
Cavatina, which Mr. Kimball played with the most 
beautiful expression, when he suddenly made a 
discord. Without looking up, the accompanist 
said: " Don't stop I " but it was death's hand that 
made the discord, and the player, falling to the 
floor, expired before the echoes of his music had 
died awa\-. Death was due to heart disease, from 
which deceased had suffered his first attack a few 
davs previously. Possessed of a social, genial 
temperament, Mr. Kimball had the faculty of 
making friends and holding them, and his memory 
is cherished in loving regard by thousands, young 
and old. He was a member of the Masonic 
Order, thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite, of 
DeMolay Commandery, K. T., of Boston, and of 
the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Kimball was married in 
1864 to Miss Celia B. Mann of South Deerfield, 
Mass., who survives him. She is a relative of 
Horace Mann, the educator. 



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ILLIAM SCOBV, a native of Ireland, died 
in Londonderry (N. H.) at the age of one 
hundred and ten years. When he was one hundred 
years of age he travelled on foot from London- 
derrv to Portsmouth, thirty-five miles, in one day, 



LONDONDERRY GRAVEYARD. 



THE place of burial containing the largest 
number of graves in the present town of 
Londonderry, and of very early importance in the 
history of the religious societies, is situated about 
sixty rods from the site of one of the West Parish 
meeting-houses, near the late Shiplev farm, and 
is sometimes known as the Shipley Graveyard. 
The inscriptions upon these gravestones are 



valuable to the historian and the genealogist as 
showing facts and relations of families not other- 
wise accessible. Not less than a thousand bodies 
must have been laid in this yard, the most of 
which are duly commemorated in substantial 
monuments. Following is an alphabetical list of 
all the names that are legible : 



ADAMS. John died May 30, 1872. aged 
78 yrs 7 mos; Elizabeth C. (wife) died 
Dec 26, 1834, aged 40 yrs 7 mos; Joan 
(wife) died July 3, 1876. aged 75 
yrs 11 mos; Clarissa (dau) died 
July 27, 1830. aged 2 yrs; Capt. 
John M. died April 25. 1815, . 
aged 37 yrs; William (son of Capt. 
John and Polly Adams) died Mai'Ch 
10, 1815, aged 4 yrs; David died April 
12, 1815, aged 73 yrs; David (son of 
Robert and Sally Adams) died May 
14, 1815. aged 2 yrs; James born Dec 
26. 1817, died June 27, 1875; Dois Ann 
born April 1. 1823, dieu May 4, 1884; 
Alfred James (son of James and Lois 
Ann Adams) died Nov. 7, 1867, aged 
5 yrs 27 dys; Frankie (son of James 
and Lois Ann Adams) died April 4, 
1871, aged 1 yr 6 mos 27 dys; Jane M. 
(wife of Edmund Adams) died June 
10, 1833, aged 27 yrs; George W. (son 
of Edmund and Jane Adams) died 
April 4. 1832, aged 11 yrs; Margaret 
(wife of Horace Adams) died Sept 4. 
1859. aged 36 yrs 6 mos 29 dys; Sarah 
(dau of James and Anna Adams) died 
May 9. 1812. aged 3 yrs. 

AIKEN. Jane (dau of John and Rox- 
anna Cormick) died March 5. 1808. 
aged 13 mos; Eliza Jane (dau of Capt. 
Nathaniel and Mary Aiken) died 
June 7, 1826. aged 6 mos. 

ALEXANDER. William died May 30, 
1805, aged 47 yrs; Elanor (wife of Wil- 
liam Alexander) died July 28. 1825. 
aged 57 yrs; William (son of William 
and Elanor Alexander) died April 14, 
1835, aged 31 yrs. 

ANDERSON. Robert died Feb 25. 1855, 
aged 61 yrs; Alexander born Sept 22. 
1776. died April 5. 1853; Martha (wife) 
bo-rn Nov 22. 1789. died Nov 9. 1853; 
Margaret (dau) born Feb 3. 1807. died 
April 1. 1812; Sarah (dau) born Dec 

20. 1.S09. died April 2. 1812; Hannah P. 
(dau) (illegible); Samuel C. (son) born 
April 17. 1S15. died Feb 15. 1816; David 
died. May 8. 1812. aged 30 yrs; Re- 
bckah R. (wife) died June 17. 1826. 
aged 45 yrs: Samuel (son) died May 

21, 1812, aged S yrs; Silas R. (son) died 

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April 7. 1812, aged 9 mos 15 dys; Mary 
(dau) died June 11, 1812, aged 3 yrs; 
Sarah (dau of Daniel and Mary An- 
derson) died July 12. 1803, aged 5 yrs 
2 mos; Peggy (dau of the same) died 
July 13, 1803, aged 10 yrs 2 mos; Mary 
(dau of the same) died July 13. 1803. 
aged 7 yrs 9 mos; James C. (son of the 
same) died July 15. 1803, aged 1 yr 8 
mos; James (son of the same) died 
July 23, 1793. aged 2 yrs 2 mos 14 dys; 
David died Jan 30. 1803, aged 36 yrs; 
Samuel died March 11. 1796. aged 48 
yrs; John died Jan 8. 1826. aged 73 
yrs; Mary (wife) died March 31, 1836. 
aged 85 yrs; Margaret (wife of Wil- 
liam Anderson) died July 13. 1828, 
aged 67 yrs; Jane (dau of William and 
Margaret Anderson) died March 10. 
1793. aged 2 yrs 2 mos 14 dys; Jamts 
died Jan 23. 1869. aged 85 yrs 3 mos 17 
dys; Nancy (wife) died March 6, 1876, 
aged 87 yrs 7 mos; John died June 17, 
1858, aged 37 yrs 6 mos; John E. (son 
of John and Lucy Anderson) died 
Sept 21, 1860. aged 2 yrs 9 mos 25 dys; 
Francis D. died March 6. 1866. 
aged 59 yrs; Jane Davidson 
(wife) died March 13, 1880, aged 71 
yrs; Charles L. (son of Francis and 
Jane Anderson) died Jan 31. 1866. aged 
33 yrs 3 mos; Deacon Samuel died 
Feb 10. 1794. aged 82 yrs; Mary (wife) 
iiied April 11. 1796. aged 77 yrs; Elder 
William died Sept 8. 1854. aged 64 yrs; 
Nancy (wife) died Jan 17, 1835. aged 
47 yrs: Thomas died Feb 21. 1798. aged 
78 yrs; Mary (wife) died March 13. 
1807, aged 81 yrs; Margaret (dau) died 
Dec 21. 1805. aged 52 vrs; John born 
186:), died 1756; Jean (wife) born 1682. 
died 1752; James born 1710. died 1781; 
Isabel McOuesten (wife) born 1713. 
died 1788; William born 1741, died 
1831: Agnes Clark (wife) born 1745, 
died 1829; Hugh born 1770. died 1829: 
Jane Nesmith (wife) born 1772. died 
1836; Robert hnrn 1772. died 1849: Mary 
Ann born 1774. died 1870; James born 
1777. died 1830; William born 1779. died 
1819: Letitia born 1782. died 1827; 
Elizabeth born 1784. died 1848; John 

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born 1788, died 1818, eight children of 
William and Agnes (Clark) Ander- 
son. 
ALEXANDER, Robert died Feb 23, 

1868, aged 72 yrs 10 mos; Mary W. 
Dickey (wife) died Oct. 30, 1855., aged 
57 yrs 27 dys; Harvey C. (son) died 
Oct. 30, 1855, aged 57 yrs 27 d>s: John 
died March 19, 18S7, aged 86 yrs 3 mos 
13 dys; Sally (wife) died Feb 7, 1888, 
aged 77 yrs 2 mos 14 dys; Aley P. (son) 
killed at Pittsbur,.^, Va., March 31, 1865, 
aged 21 yrs 8 mos Co. K. 1st Maine 
cavalry; Amos (son) died April 1, 1865, 
aged 15 yrs 5 mos; Warren P. died 
Feb 10. 1888. aged 55 yrs, 6 mos. 

AVERILL, Ephraim died Sept 4, 1860, 
aged 80 yrs; Sally (wife) died Feb 27, 

1869, aged 86 yrs. 

AVERY, Foster died March 25, 1S67, 
aged 74 yrs; Rebekah (wife) died 
Feb 26, 1867, aged 72 yrs; Henry Clay 
(son) died July 15, 1849, aged 11 yrs 
1 mo 12 dys; Mark died June 22, 1828, 
aged 81 yrs; Dorcas (wife) died Feb 21, 
1825, aged 77 yrs. 

ALLEY, Moses died March 17, 1879, 
aged 77 yrs, 9 mos; Hannah (wife) 
died Feb 23, 1841, aged 43 yrs; Jane D. 
Boyes (wife) died Sept 12. 1875, aged 
70 yrs 6 mos 2 dys. 

BAGLEY, John died June 23, 1861, aged 
75 yrs: Sarah (wife) died Sept 3, 1867, 
aged 84 yrs. 

BAILEY, Joseph died Feb 17, 1859, 
aged 77 yrs 2 mos: Lydia (wife) died 
Aug 14, 1872. aged 83 yrs 9 mos 17 dys; 
Zoe A. (wife of Foster T. Bailey) died 
May 5. 1878. a.ged 51 yrs 25 dys; Laura 
L. (dau) died June 14, 1863, aged 2 yrs 4 
mos 14 dys: Arvilla J. (dau) died Oct 
10. 1872. aged 8 yrs 5 mos 25 dys; Me- 
hitable W. (dau of Joseph and Lydia 
Bailey) died July 31. 1825. aged 5 yrs 

6 mos; Betsey (dau of the same) died 
Jan 23. 1844. aged 27 yrs. 

BARKER. Asa died Nov 20. 1866, aged 

7 yrs; Timothy died Dec 13, 1858, aged 
88 yrs; Abiah (wife) died March 10, 
1832, aged 56 yrs; Silas died July 17, 
1836, aged 66 yrs, 7 mos; Abigail (wife. 



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and afterwards married to Archi- 
bald Gamble) died Sept 4. 1866, aged 
84 yrs 6 mos. 
HARTLEY, Doctor Robert (a distin- 
guished physician) died Nov 12, 1S20, 
aged 59 yrs; Mary (wife) died Aug 27, 
1836, aged 70 yrs; Nancy (dau) wife 
of Capt. John Jaclison died Jan IS, 
1820, aged 27 yrs; Maria (dau of Doc- 
tor Robert Hartley) died Nov 9. 1823, 
aged 22 yrs; Doctor Hugh (a physi- 
cian) died Aug 18, 1837, aged 42 yrs; 
George (son of Dr. Hugh Bartley) 
died Oct 1, 1841. aged 6 yrs; Hugh F. 
(,son) died Sept 1, 183.3, aged 14 dys. 
BATCHELDER, Nathan died Sept 13, 
1854, aged 74 yrs, 7 mos; Hannah 
(wife) died Nov 11, 1852, aged 70 yrs 
6 mos; George W. (son) died Oct 9, 
1825, aged 5 yrs 3 dys. 
BEARD, Sally (wife of David Beard) 

died June 6, 1841, aged 42 yrs. 
BELL, Hon. John died Nov. 30, 1825, 
aged 95 yrs; Mary (dau., and wife of 
Capt. William Anderson) died Feb 
11, 1S12, aged .30 yrs; Mary Ann (wife 
of Hon. John Bell) died April 21. 1822, 
aged 85 yrs. 
BENSON, Corporal George W. died 
June 3, 1864, aged 30 yrs (from wound 
received at Cold Harbor, Virginia); 
Judith C. died Jan 28, 1848, aged 40 yrs, 
6 mos; Maria M. died May 20, 1862, 
aged 39 yrs (wives of Joseph C. and 
son); Sarah L. (dau of Joseph C. and 
Maria N. Benson) died July 6, 1862. 
aged 10 mos; Andrew (soldier) no 
stone; Ruth J. (wife) died June 2, 1880, 
aged 45 yrs, 10 mos; Frank A. (son) 
died June 11, 1853, aged 2 mos 4 dvs; 
Idam (child) died Sept 29, 1861, aged 
1 yr. 5 mos, 23 dys; George W. (son) 
died Dec 20, 1862, aged 11 mos, 20 dys. 
BLOOD. Oliver died Sept 12, 1848. aged 
70 yrs; Sarah (wife) died April 12, 1880, 
aged 97 yrs 2 mos; Elena (dau of 
George 'SV. and Adelene M. Blood) 
died Sept 12, 1851. aged 14 mos; Henry 
(son of Oliver and Jane P. Blood) died 
March 6, 1852, aged 5 mos, 21 dys; John 
L. (son of C. L. and F. M. Blood) born 
July 19, 1867, died July 23, 1877; Clara 
L. born Sent 21, 1874, died July 23, 
1877. 
BOTES, Robert died Jan 24. 1S40. aged 
68 yrs; Elizabeth (wife) died Dec 4, 
1839, aged 62 yrs; Jo.seph (son) died 
July 2, 1810, aged 2 years; Mary (dau) 
died July 10, 1810, aged 3 yrs; infant 
died Dec 21. 1810; Charles died Oct 20, 
1821, aged 4 mos; Janet (wife of Sam- 
uel Boyes) died Jan 3, 1794. aged 64 
yrs; James died March 7, 181S, aged 
60 yrs. 
BOYCE, Lieut. Hugh died Sept 9. 1856, 
aged S3 yrs 2 mos; Susan G. (wife) died 
Oct 12, 1846, aged 68 yrs; James, died 
July 5, 1834, aged 75 yrs; Eleanor 
(wife) died Dec 14. 1825, aged 66 yrs; 
James (son )died March 9, 1804, aged 3 
yrs, S mos; James (son of Robert and 
Elizabeth McMurphy Boyce) died 
July 3, 1890, aged 78 yrs 3 mos 26 dys; 
Jeannette (wife of James) died Feb 
21, 1855, aged 39 yrs; Nellie (dau) died 
Aug 24, 1865. aged 13 yrs 28 dys. 
BOYD, Thomas died Feb 29. ISOS. aged 
51 yrs; Mary Ann (wife) died April 4, 
1833, aged 84 yrs; William died July 17. 
1841. aged ,59 yrs; Margaret (wife) 
di,ed Feb 16, 1868, aged 81 yrs: Mariah 
(dau) died Nov 29, 1816. aged 6 yrs; 
Annis O. (dau) died Dec 6. 1S16, aged 
3 yrs; Thomas died Feb 29, 1808, aged 
51 yrs; Mary Ann (wife) died April 4, 
1833, aged S4 yrs; Robert died Feb 4, 
1851, aged 62 yrs; Mary L. (wife) died 
May 10. 1887, aged 96 yrs; Annis died 
March 28, 1813, aged 36 yrs; Captain 
William died Oct 10, 1S25, aged 69 yrs; 
Martha (wife) died Apri. 27, 1879, aged 
98 yrs; William died Oct 14. 1826, aged 
45 yrs; Lucy (wife) died May 30. 1820, 



aged 32 yrs; Lieutenant Alexander 
died July 13, 1823, aged 77 yrs; Martha 
(wife) died Sept 28, 1804, aged 52 yrs; 
Margaret died Feb 26. 1818, aged 39 
yrs; Mary (dau of Alexander Bovd) 
died Sept 22, 1804, aged 16 yrs 24 dys; 
Ensign Robert died May 19. 1816. aged 
27 yrs; William (son of Ensign Robert 
and Betsy Boyd) died Oct 15. 1815. 
aged 4 mos 26 dys; Isaac died April 
28, ISOO, aged 24 yrs; Mary (wife) died 
Feb 2, 1817, aged 47 yrs; Alice died 
Jan 9, 1852, aged 55 yrs; John died 
July 12, 1795, aged 29 yrs .30 dys; John 
(son of John and Naomi Boyd) died 
May 12. 1795. ageu 6 mos 15 dys; Mary 
(uau of the same) (see McKeen) died 
Jan 27, 1797, aged 8 hrs; Robert died 
Feb 23, 1803, ageu 88 yrs; Mary (wife) 
died July 17, 17S9, aged 80 yrs. 
BREWSTER, -.uer David died Dec 9, 
1S31, aged 78 yrs; Margaret Wilson 
(wife) died Aug 28. 1817. aged 47 yrs; 
Jane Pinkerton (wife) died Feb 14. 
1809. agea 56 yrs; Mary McMurphy 
(wife) afterwards married John Dun- 
can died Jan 8, 1870, aged 91 yrs S mos 
22 dys; Jane (dau of) died April 17, 
1812, aged 7 dys. 
BRICKETT. Jonathan died Dec 19, 
1872, aged 83 yrs 6 mos; Lyd-a (w^ife) 
died March 24, 1870, aged 79 yrs 10 
mos; Edward Clarence (son of H. W. 
and A. A. Brickett) died April 14. 1876. 
aged 20 yrs 9 mos; Ellen Louise died 
aged 9 mos; Herbert K. died in Cali- 
fornia Sept 30. 1853, aged 23 yrs 8 mos; 
Little Alice died aged 2 yrs 9 mos; 
Elizabeth P. died Jan 28, 1876, aged 
43 yrs. 
BURBANK. Pricilla (wife of Deacon 
Abraham Burbank) died Feb 11, 1854, 
aged 68 yrs 10 mos; Lucy Jane (dau 
of John H. and Nancy J. Burbank) 
di.ed Sept 18. 1849, aged 4 mos 22 dys; 
Willie P. (son of the same) died March 
10. 1855. aged 2 yrs. 
CALDWELL. Jefferson died April 14. 
1882. aged 78 yrs 2 mos: Nancy Upton 
(wife) died June 9, 1864, aged 59 yrs 
2 mos 18 dys: Nancy (wife) died Nov 
13, 1880, age.. 69 yrs. 
CAMPBELL, John died Feb 22, 1863. 
aged 61 yrs; Deborah (wife) died Oct 
2, 1862, aged 61 yrs; Sarah (dau) died 
April 20, 1840, aged 6 yrs; Sarah (sec- 
ond wife of John Campbell) died July 
29, 1847, aged 78 yrs; Abner died Sept 
25, 1842, aged 78 yrs; Betsy (wife) died 
April 19, 1.S12, aged 47 yrs; Annas 
(3d wife) died June 5, 1839, aged 71 
yrs; Samuel (son of Abner and Sarah 
Campbell) died Jan 13, 1840, aged 36 
yrs. 
('ARLTON, Elder Thomas died Feb 20, 
1847. aged 84 yrs; Sarah (wife) died 
July 7. 1843. aged 77 yrs; Jane (dau) 
d',ed July 3, 1801, aged 3 yrs; Jonathan 
G. died July 15. 1801, aged 20 mos- 
Betsey (wife of Thomas Carlton, Jr. ) 
died Sept 25. 1837, aged 42 yrs; Will- 
iam B. died April 26, 1888, aged 61 yrs 
3 mos 7 dys: Betsy A. (wife) died July 
15. 1889. aged 48 yrs 2 mos 22 dvs. 
CAVENDER. Samuel (son of Moody 
and El!|Za Cavender) died Nov 28, 
1834, aged 6 yrs 8 mos: Eliza (wife of 
Moody Cavender) died May 17, 1835, 
aged 26 yrs 10 mos. 
CHASi., Stephen died Sept 16, 181S, 
aged 64 yrs; Esther (wife) died Dec 
23, 1820, aged 66 yrs; Trueworthy D. 
died Nov 27. 1858 aged 84 yrs. 
CHENEY, Sophronia (dau of William 
and Sophia Cheney), died June 3. 1SS2, 
aged 5 yrs. 
CLAGGET, Francis died Nov 26, 1832, 

aged 26 yrs. 
CLARK, Elizabeth (dau of George and 
Mary Clark) died June 12, 1828, aged 
62 yrs; Anna died Nov 27. 1842, aged 
29 yre;; Lucy S. (dau of Danna and 
Elizabeth P. Clark) died Jan 9, 1842, 
aged 4 yrs. 



COBB. Melatiah died March 22, 1835, 
aged 80 yrs; Rebecca (wife) died Aug 
8, 1815, aged 53 yrs; Jerusha (dau) died 
April 20, 1812, aged 7 yrs: Samuel 
son) died Oct 24. 1813, aged 26 yrs. 
COCHRAN, William born April 1, 1809, 
died Nov 21, 1879; Lillv born July 4, 
1798, died May 2, 1884. 
COFFIN. Naplitali died May 5, 1837, 
aged 68 yrs; Abigail (wife) died July 
26, 1865, aged 95 yrs 10 mos 12 dys. 
COMBS, John died Nov 8, 1839, aged 

25 yrs. 
CORNING, Nathan died Nov 1, 1869, 
aged 56 yrs 3 mos; Hannah (wife) died 
July 2, 1872, aged 60 yrs 21 dys. 
CHEESY, William died Oct 17, 1825, 
aged 18 yrs 7 mos; Betsey died Sept 23. 
1835. aged 51 yrs 4 mos; Joseph died 
May 22, 1836, aged 51 yrs 7 mos. 
CROWELL, Capt. Peter died Sept 7, 
1869, aged 74 yrs 6 mos; Orra A. (wife) 
died March 1, 1820, aged 25 yrs: Infant 
died, aged 4 dys; Harriet Hardy, 
(wife of Capt. Peter Crowell) died 
Dec 4, 1883, aged 85 yrs 5 mos; Sarah 
A. (dau of Peter and Harriet Crowell 
and bride of W. S . Pillsbury) died 
June 23. 1854, aged 21 yrs; James died 
July 20, 1855, aged 24 yrs; David died 
Nov 14. 1846. aged 89 yrs; Elizabeth 
(wife) died June 21, 1849, aged 91 yrs; 
Sarah Frances (dau of Henry and 
Judith Crowell) died Aug 15, 1865, 
aged 8 mos; Henry Clarence (son) died 
Dec 28, 1856, aged 2 yrs 19 dys; Maria 
E. (wife of David Crowell and dau of 
Samuel and Mary Dow) died Aug. 14. 
1854, aged 23 yi-s 8 mos: Samuel died 
Feb 20, 1864, aged 77 yrs; Sarah (wife) 
died Dec 16, 1863, aged 77 yrs; Sarah 
E. (dau) died Oct. 4, 1844, aged 1 yr 
10 mos. 
CUTLER, Lemuel died May 24, ISSl, 
'aged 85 yrs 3 mos; Betsey (wife) died 
Sept 25, 1880, aged 84 yrs 5 mos. 
DANA, Geoi-ge W. born Nov 8, 1839, 
died Dec 7, 1861; Mary E. born April 
8, 1845, died Nov. 27, 1S78; Maria D. 
(wife of John Dana) April 2, 1878, 
aged 68 yrs. 
DAVIDSON, Maria E. (dau of Francis 
and Janet Davidson) died June 12, 
1812, aged 11 yrs. 
DEAN, Abigail (wife of Nathaniel 
Dean of Dedham) died March 8, 1824, 
aged 86 yrs. 
DICKEY. John (son of Adam and Mary 
Dickey of Acworth died Jan 26. 1816, 
—yrs; Matthew died March 31, 1812, 
aged 4 yrs 3 mos 18 dys, (son) of John 
and Rhoda Dickey, died of the spot- 
ted fever: George W. (son of John and 
Rhoda Dickey) died Feb 22, 1816; 
{3teorge P. (son) died May 11, 1810, aged 
10 mos: Infant (child) died March 4, 
1803, aged 6 hrs; Robert died May 28, 
1866. aged 80 yrs, 6 mos; Jenny Mor- 
rison (wife) died Sept. 4, 1862. aged 
70 yrs 4 mos; Adam died June 22. 1817, 
aged 73 yrs 10 mos; Margaret Wood- 
burn (wife) died July 23, 1874. aged 94 

2 mos; Lieut. Robert died June 22, 
1806, aged 59 yrs; Hannah (wife) died 
July 12, 1845, aged 92 yrs; Robert M. 
(son of Robert, and grandson of 
Robert and Jenny Morrison Dickey) 
died Oct. 3, 1825, aged 3 yrs 7 mos 2 dys; 
Jennet Dickey died Jan 2, 1879, aged 
88 yrs 1 mo. and six children; Capt. 
Joseph died Aug 30, 1878, aged 94 yrs 

3 mos 25 dys; Fanny D. Montgomery 
(wife died April 3, 1872, aged 
88 yrs 10 mos; Joseph (son) died 
July 24, 1866, aged 42 yrs 9 mos; Sarah 
Kendall (dau of Joseph and Elizabeth 
Dickey) died Sept 12, 1877, aged 17 yrs 
9 mos; Fanny Montgomery (dau of 
the same) died March 14, 1861, aged 

1 yr 3 mos; Mary Frances (adopted 
dau of same) died Nov 4, 1S.57, ag¥>d 

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and Fanny D. Montgomery Dickey) 
died March 25. 1855, aged 35 yrs 5 mos; 
Montgomery (son of the same) died 
April 3, 1891, aged 75 yrs 4 mos 15 dys; 
Robert (son of John and Margaret 
Dicliey) died July 11, 1809, aged 2 yrs 
3 mos 13 dys; Infant (son of same) 
died Feb 17, 1806, aged 2 dys; Eliza 
A. (at Constable, N. Y.,) died Dee 29. 
1825, aged 23 yrs; Mary (dau of Dea. 
Robert Dinsmore) died Jan 19, 1838, 
aged 84 yrs. 

DINSMORE. Thoimas died Sept IS. 1821. 
aged 72 yi-s; Mrs. Anna died April 30. 
1824, aged 56 yrs. 

DODGE. Benjamin died Aug 7. 1SS3. 
aged 84 yrs 5 mos; Samuel died Aug 
14. 1807. aged 70 yrs. 

DOW. John died Feb 12, 1831, aged 68 
yrs; Marv (wife) died Nov 21, 1845, 
aged 67 yrs; Jacob died Sept 29, 1841, 
aged 32 yrs; Hezekiah died June 4. 1827, 
aged 17 yrs; Samuel died July 25, 1859, 
aged 65 yrs 1 mo 13 dys; Mary (wife) 
died Feb 18, 1859. aged 66 yrs 1 mo 20 
dys. 

DUNCAN. Squire John died Jan 24, 1852, 
aged S3 vrs; Jane (wife) died March 1, 
1835, aged 68 yrs; also six children; 
Abraham died March 1. 1805. aged 64 
yrs; Jane (wife) died Jan 19. 1812, aged 

EATON. James G. died Dec 28, 1856, 
aged 29 yrs. 

ELA, Sarah (wife of David Ela) died 
Dec 20. 1S79. aged 25 yrs 3 mos 21 dys; 
Edward P. died Sept 2. 1S76. aged 64 
yrs 8 mos; Samuel G. (son of Edward 
P. and Isabella Ela) died July 14. 1853. 
aged 7 yrs 10 mos; John A. (son of the 
same) died Aug 1. 1880. aged 22 yrs 9 
moB 3 dys; Edward died Sept 3. 1812. 
aged 60 yrs; Hannah (wife) died May 

21, 1804. aged 52 yrs; Edward died Dec 

22. 1853, aged 74 yrs; Mary (wife) died 
Mav 26. 1S80. aged 98 yrs 2 wks; Sarah 
(wife) died Jan 3, 1812, aged 32 yrs; 
Mary (dau of Edward and Mary Ela) 
died" Jan 21. 1822, aged 2 yrs 5 mos. 

BSTEY. Hannah (wife of John Estey) 
died Aug 5. 1858. aged 47 yrs 5 dys; 
John (son of John and Hannah Estey) 
died in Washington. D. C. Co. H. 
18 reg. N. H. vol.. July 12. 1865. aged 
24 yrs S mos; Daniel born April 8. 1805. 
died Nov 11. 1S91; Rebecca (wife) born 
. April 23. 1S07. died Jan 26. 1887; Charles 
H. died Sept 25. 1834. aged 15 yi-s 8 mos 
10 dys (son of John and Hannah 
Estey); William E. (son of the same) 
died April 23. 1S50. aged 1 yr 1 mo in 
dys. 
FARLEY. Leonard died July 28. 1S25. 
aged 21 yrs; Elizabeth (wife) died Sept 
30. 1833.' aged 30 yrs; Henry (son of 
Oilman and Sophia Farley) died April 
8. 1839. aged 2 yrs 4 mo'.s. 
FISHER. Abigail (dau of Lieut. Ebe- 
nezer and Polly Fisher) died June 10. 
1803. aged 4 yrs 8 mos; Ellis (son of the 
same) died Sept 16. 1804. aged 9 mos 4 
dvs; Marv (wife of Lieut. Ebenezer 
F'isher) (W'-A Nov 2S. 1S14. aged 45 yrs. 
FLANDERS. Zoe Ann (dau of Robei-t 
Dickey) died May 27. 1886, aged 61 yrs 
11 mos. 
FLING. Edmund (son of William and 
Susannah Fling) died March 30. 1825. 
aged IS yrs; William died June 21. 
1825, aged 40 yrs; Susannah (wife) died 
Dec 7, ISJO, aged 53 yrs. 
FLINT. Hf man died June 12. 1874. aged 
89 yrs; Rhoda (wife) died May 30. 1870, 
aged 84 yrs 9 mos. 
GAGE. Richard died Oct 3. 1830. aged 60 
yrs; Jane R. (wife) died Jan 13, 1859. 
aged S2 yrs 11 mos; Billy R. died 
March 7. 1837. aged ,54 yrs; Abigail (1st 
wife) died April 19. 1S08. aged 23 yi-s 
10 mos; Rebekah (2nd wife) died Nov 
.30. 1816. aged 34 yrs; Nancy (3rd wife) 
died Aug 19, 1865, aged 81 yrs 10 mos; 



Martha Tenney (wife of John A. Gage) 
born Oct 28. 1829, died Oct 3. 1S91; Ella 
F. (dau) born May 23. 1852. died Dec 
25. 1874; M. Florence (dau) born Jan 15, 
1855, died June 29: 1872; Charles F. (son) 
born Jan 20. 1857. died Feb 28, 1860; 
Lydia P. (dau) born July 20, 1863, died 
May 4, 1865. 

GARDNER. L. P. born Dec 24, 1831, died 
Ocit 17. 1879. 

GARVEN. Jacob died Aug 21. 1822, aged 
52 yrs; Margaret (wife) died Dec 24, 

1846. aged 74 yrs. 

GILCREAST. James M. died Aug 31. 
1863. aged 49 yrs 10 mos; Eliza H. 
(wife) died Oct 12. 1846. aged 28 yrs; 
Eugene M. (son of James Gilcreas/t) 
died July 17. 1873. aged 24 yrs 24 dys. 

GILIS. James (see Woodburn). 

GILCREAST. Clara J. (dau of Jamet 
Gilcreast) died Dee IS. 1877. aged 23 
yrs 2 mos 25 dys; La Forest J. (son of 
the same) died Sept 23. 1878, aged 18 
yrs 6 dys; Sarah Ann (wife of Joihri 
Gilcreast) died Nov 5, 1847, aged 26 
yrs; David James (son) died Sept 9, 

1847. aged 3 mos 20 dys; David Onslow 
(son of John and Marinda Gilcreast) 
died Nov 16. 1851. aged 4 mos 16 dys; 
Elwina (son of Samuel and Nancy 
Gilcreast) died March 12, 1858. aged 8 
yrs 2 mos 9 dys; D^avid died 
April 3, 1859, aged 77 yrs; 
Sally (wife) died July 6, 
1863, aged 82 yrs 5 mos; David Jr. died 
April 13. 1880, aged 73 yrs; Sally 
Holmes (wife) died June 28, 1874, aged 
64 yrs 5 mos 25 dys. 

GOODEN. Reuby (dau of Deacon Ca- 
leb and Martha Gooden) died Aug 11, 
1S07, aged 3 yi-s 8 mos; David died 
June 20, 1822, aged 78 yrs; Mehitable 
(wife) died Dec 12, 1822, aged 81 yrs; 
Enoch died Nov 28, 1825, aged 40 yrs; 
Sally (wife) died Sept 17, 1825, aged 
41 yrs; Rebecca (wife of Deacon 
Joshua Gooden) died May 27, 1806, 
aged 41 yrs 3 mos 20 dys. 
GREELEY, Charles D. died Feb 19,1862, 
ag'ed 38 yrs 11 mos; Martha (wife of 
John Greeley, soldier) died Aug 18, 
1863, aged 78 yrs. 
GREGG, Samuel died March 15. 1829, 
aged 42 yrs 5 mos; Robert died Sept 
6, 1866, aged 40 yrs 9 mos. 
GRIFFIN, Moses died March 31, 18^6, 
aged S3 yrs; Moses Jr. died Jan 22, 
18il, aged 29 yrs; and Jane M. (wife of 
Edmund Adams); Deacon Jonathan 
died June IS, 1825, aged S6 yrs; Han- 
nah (wife) died March 14, 1820, aged 
75 yrs; Hannah (dau) died Feb 27, 
1827, aged 65 yrs. 
HAMLET. AYillie A. died June 20, 1863, 
aged 1 y 6 mos 25 dys; Rosella M. died 
June 29. 1863. aged 3 yrs 11 mos. See 
Hovey inscriptions for more names. 
HARDY', Daniel died May 25, 1859, aged 
89 yrs 9 mos; Sarah (wife) died Jan 1, 
1867, aged 89 yrs 9 mos; Aaron P. 
(son) died July 8, 1887, aged 71 yrs 
9 mos; Delia W, (wife) died Sept 16, 
1891. aged 71 yrs 25 dys. 
H.\RVEI-. Joseph died May 11, 1888, 
aged 70 yrs; Sarah H. (wife) died 
March IS, 1862, aged 44 yrs; Marcia 
(dau) died Dec 4, 1869, aged 22 yrs 7 
mos 4 dys; James Ervlng (son) died 
Sept 23, 1848, aged 3 yrs 2 mos 15 dys; 
Julia F. (dau) died Oct 1, 1854, aged 
3 yrs I mos 5 dys. 
HAYES. Rei-. Amasa (graduate Yale 
colle.ge. 1S24. Ordained pastor of 
Presbyterian church in this town 
June 25, 1828) died Oct 23, 1830, aged 32 
years. 
HILLS. John died Jan 8, 1826, aged 46 
yrs; Jane Anderson (wife) died June 
12. 1.S59, aged 74 yrs; Charles (son) died 
Oot 25. 1826. aged 11 yrs. 
HODGE. Perkins Andrews died in Mis- 
sissippi March 14, 1S3S, aged 43 yrs; 



Frances Rebecca (dau of P. A. and 
Rebecca Hodge) died Nov 17, 1830, 
aged 3 yrs 7 mos. See Morrison. 
HOLMES. Robert died May S, 1840, 
aged 56 yrs; Eliza A. (wife) died 
March 23, 1865, aged 79 yrs; Mary J. 
Bickford (dau) died Oct 4. 1842, aged 
28 yrs; Christopher G, (son) died Nov 
6, 1835. aged 19 yrs; Nathaniel (son) 
died Jan 31, 1849, aged 21 yrs; Elder 
John born Dec 19, 1779, died Sejyt 21, 
1851; Sarah AnOerson (wife) born 
Feb 25, 1723, died inarch 9, 1819; Anna 
D. (dau) died Aug 20. 1816. aged 18 
mos; Mai-y Adams (2d wife of John 
Holmes) born Oct 3, 1783. died Nov 
29, 1851; Infant (dau) died Jan. 11, 1827; 
Jonathan died May 13, 1807, aged 50 
yrs; Eliza Ann (dau of Jonathan and 
Betsey Holmes) died Aug 15, 1832, 
aged 17 yrs; Sarah (dau of the same) 
died Aug 27, 1832, aged 6 yrs; Thomas 
died April 19, 1822. aged 76 yrs; Mar- 
garet (wife) died Oct 19, 1838, aged 83 
yre; Mary died Nov. 1. 1821, aged 77 
yrs; Margaret died March 26, 1823, 
aged 87 yrs; Capt. William died May 
11, 1885, aged 87 yrs 11 mos; Judith 
Noyes (wife) died Oct 2. 1885, aged 81 
yre 2 mos; Deacon Moses Noyes (on 
the same stone with the Holmes fami- 
ly) died Sept 29, 1860, aged 86 yrs; 
Lucy (wife) died March 17, 1863, aged 
S3 yrs; Georgia M. (wife of Thomas 
M. Holmes) died Oct 15. 1875. aged 30 
yrs 10 mos; William died April 10, 1885, 
aged 43 yrs; Mary Jane (wife) died 
June 26, 1842, aged 22 yrs; Robert died 
July 17, 1825, aged 40 yrs; Jane (wife) 
died Dec 10, 1871, aged 84 yrs; Mary 
died Nov 6, 1860, aged 46 yrs; Elder 
Matthew died Sept 14, 1874. aged 78 
yrs 11 mos; Betsey (wife) died Jan 31, 
1856, aged 60 yrs; Anna B. (wife) died 
Apr;i 23, 1875, aged 76 yrs 5 mos; 
Lydia Ann (dau) died March 12, 1853. 
aged 27 yrs; Mary Adams (dau) died 
Sept 9. 1834. aged 11 mos; Margaret 
P. (dau) died Sept 26, 1857, aged 26 yrs 
5 mos; M. Henry born July 30, 1824, 
died June 13, 1883; Gertrude (dau of 
M. Henry and Hannah Holmes) dded 
Sept 21, 1807. aged 3 ' mos 25 dys; 
Joseph Matthew (son of the same) 
died April 22, 1865, aged 5 wks; and 
Addle M. born Aug 28, 1862, died June 
12, 1883; and Etta M. born April 25. 
1861, died Feb 11, ISSl; and Katie L. 
born Oat 13, 1S68, died June 1, 1882. 
HOVEY. Elizabeth died March 27. 1819, 
aged 25 yrs. (she was the wife of John 
Hovey); Eleinor (wife of John Hov- 
ey) died March 29. 1812, aged 23 yrs; 
Lucy Jane (dau of John and Eleinor 
Hovey) died aged 1 yr; Joseph died 
Oct 9, 1825, aged 61 yrs; Rebecca 
(wife of Joseph B. Hovey) died June - 
18, 1868, aged 77 yrs 5 mos; Sarah 
(wife of Joseph Hovey) died Oct 5, - 
1804, aged 43 yrs; Henry A. Co. D, 1st 
N. H. Heavy artillery, died Dec 14, 
1865. aged 16 yrs 9 mos 22 dys; Wil- 
liam B. died July 12. 1848. aged 29 yrs; 
(in same lot) Dust in Hamlet Co. D, 
1st N. H. Heavy artillery died Jan 
10. 1865, aged 43 yrs S mos; Ellen L. 
Hamilet (dau of H. J. and L. D.) died 
March 13, 1866, aged 1 yr 3 mos. 
HITNTEE. Lovilla E. born May 2, 1842, 
died Dec 14, 1S83, (she was the wife of 
W. C. Huntee). 
HT^RD. Charles born May 28, 1791, died 
Mav 21, 1873; Rachel Lovejoy (wife) 
born April 16, 1797, died March 30, 
1866; Henry L. (son of Charles and 
Rachel Hurd) died July 16. 1851, aged 
16 yrs 8 mos; Nancy Maria (wife of 
Charles Hurd. Jr) died March 25, 1856, 
aged 29 yrs. 
JACICSON. Ephraim Co. K, 13th Reg, 
N H Vol. died Aug 7, 1873, a.ged 42 



334 

JAMES, Thomas died March 2 1818 

aged 65 yrs. 
JEFFERS, Mrs. Christiana died Jan 

10, 1799, aged 59 yrs. 
JONES, Josiah died Aug IG, 1796 aged 

65 yrs 4 mos 24 dvs. 
KIMBALL, J. 

KARR, Luther Bell (son of William D 
and Clarissa Karr> died Oct 20, 1S39 
aged 5 yrs 5 mos 15 dys. 
LADD, Timothy died Sept 18, 1,S73, aged 

81 yrs 7 mos. 
LEACH, Joseph died April 19. 1S24 
aged 70 yrs; Olive died Jan 31 1839' 
aged S3 yrs; Mary died May 24, 1848 
aged 52 yrs 4 mos 10 dys; Elizabeth 
P. died Aug 10, 1877, aged 86 yrs 5 
mos 14 dys. 
LOWD, William B. born Sept 17, 1S17 
died Dec 14, 1S91; Martha Grant 
(wife) born Jan 17, 1,S20; Susan F 
(dau) and \vife of C. B. Abbott, born 
Aug 18, 1849. died Aug 5, 1879. 
MACK, Andrew died July 10, 1820, 
aged 72 yrs; Elizabeth (wife) died 
Feb 14, 1830, aged 82 yrs: Elizabeth 
died June 15, 1812. aged 30 yrs; Jane 
died April 20, 1850, aged 74 yrs- Le- 
- titia died Jan 12. 1849, aged 71 yrs 
MARCH, Henry died March 24. 1847, 
aged 73 yrs; Polly (wife) died Aug 9 
1819, aged 38 yrs; Sarah died Aug 8, 
1827, aged 48 yrs; Mary (wife of Rand 
S. March) died Aug 31. 1843, aged 28 
yrs; Mary (wife of Benjamin March) 
died Oct 10, 1863, aged 80 yrs 10 mos; 
Benjamin died Dec 7. 1821, aged 46 
yrs; Deacon John died Jan 20, 1820 
aged 83 yrs; Morris oifd June 8. 
1847, aged 74 yrs; Sarah (wife) die'd 
April 27, 1840, aged 65 yrs; infant 
(dau) died June 15, 1807; Sarah (dau) 
died Nov 15. 1836, aged 17 yrs 5 mos 
13 dys; John born March 4, 1805 died 
Feb 1. 1,S92; Hannah C. (wife)) born 
Dec 4, 1810, died Oct 17, 18.52: Elmira 
C. born Oct 30. 1815. aied Dec 27. 1883- 
Hannah C. born Dec 27, 1842, died Jari 
27, 1892. 
MARSH. Lieut. Samuel died Oct 4. 
1825, aged 45 yrs; and four children of 
Samuel and Letticia Marsh: Annis 
O. died Oct 18, 1838, aged 25 yrs- Is- 
rael died March 5. 1838, aa-ed 18 yr.s- 
Sarah Jane died Jan IS, 1839 aged 17 
yrs; Mary D. died July 13. 1838. aged 
14 yrs; also Mary Ann died Feb 15 
1812. aged 19 mos 13 dvs; William' 
Boyd died May 5. 1816, aged 11 mois 
19 dys. 
MCALLISTER, Capt. Isaac died Aug 
30, 1858, aged 82 yrs 7 mos; Sarah 
(wife) died Peb^fi, 1854, aged 76 yrs 8 
mos; Isaac died March 21, 1869. a,ged 
55 yrs 5 mos; John died Oct 2 1812 
aged 31 yrs; Henderson died at sea 
Jan 30. 1825, aged 18 yrs. 
McCLEARY, Anna (wife of David Mc- 
Cleary) died Jan 11, 1816, aged 22 yrs 
McCOLOM. Fanny died Feb 26, 1816 

aged 39 yrs. 
McGregor. David born 1817, died 
1891; Maryetta Nesmith (wife) bnrn 
1820, died 1884: Emma (dau) born 
1856, died 1875: Harriett L. (dau) boi-n 
1850, died 1866: Francena N. (dau) 
born 1848. died 1864: Etta R. (dau) 
born 1854. died 18S1. 
McKEEN, Mary (dau of William and 
Annis Boyd) died Aug 22. 1804. aged 
8 yrs; James (son of William and 
Annis Boyd) died Dec 9. 1809, aged 18 
yrs. 
McMURPHY. Alexander died Dec 26 
18.53, aged 85 yrs 9 mos: Sarah (wife) 
died Feb 10, 1860, aged 85yrs. 5 mos :Hen- 
jamin (son) died Oct 21, 1825, aged 2'> 
yrs: Hannah (dau) died Jan' 21, 1837" 
aged 31 yrs; Peggy died Dec 10, 185l' 
aged 79 yrs; James (son of Dea. Ben- 
jamin and Susan McMurphy) died 
April 19, 1817, aged 1 yr 6 mos; Jen- 
nette died Sept 3. 1848. aged .57 yrs- 
Jane died Nov 27. 1872, aged 98 yrs 27 
dys. 



WTLLErs BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 

MELVIN, Prescott died Oct 4 18,32 

aged .34 yrs. 
MENTER, Daniel died April 13 1866 
aged 37 yrs; Willie J. died Oct 29' 
1865, aged 4 yrs 8 mos; Addle L. died 
May 21, 1865, aged lyr 4 dys; Phineas 
died July 29, 1855, aged 61 yrs; Mary 
Ann (dau of Phineas and Mary Men- 
ter) died Sept 3. 1825. aged 2 yrs 5 mos 
3 dys; Philena (dau) died Sept 23, 1829 
aged 8 yrs; Allen (son) died July 1, 
1843, aged 9 yrs 2 mos; Sarena died 
March 26, 1848, aged 16 yrs 6 mos; 
Jane H. died Aug 20. 1849. aged 28 
yrs 5 mos; James died Feb 11. 1837, 
aged 45 yrs; Hetty (wife) died March 
16, 1855, aged 76 yrs 10 mos; Jabesh L. 
died Oct 11, 1846, aged 50 yrs. 
MERRILL. Nehemiah L. died Oct 7, 
1843. aged 34 yrs 9 mos: Emma E. (dau 
of John and Paulina L. Merrill) died 
Nov 3, 1863, aged 20 yrs; Ida (dau of 
same) died Aug 20, 1S79. aged 9 yrs 
2 mos. 
MOORE. Capt. John died Jan 11. 1831. 
aged 34 yrs; Lieut. William died April 
24, 1823, aged 62 yrs; Sarah (wife) died 
Oct 9, 1843, aged 82 yrs; James died 
Nov 28. 1831, aged 39 yrs; Jane died 
Dec 3, 1854, aged 56 yrs 6 mos 20 dys; 
Henry A. M. died Feb 14. 1798. aged 31 
yrs; Capt. William died Feb 13, 1812, 
aged 79 yrs; Martha (wife) died June 
21. 1808. aged 74 yrs: Martha died Mav 
11. 1816. aged 25 yrs; Henry died Jan 
4 1812. aged 23 yrs 9 mos; James died 
(in Africa) Oct 10. 1807. aged 23 yrs 
9 mos (last two sons of James and 
Margaret Moore): James died July 15, 
1814, aged 58 yrs; Margaret (wife) "died 
Oct 8. 1842, aged 87 yrs: Mary Jane 
(dau of Daniel and Mary Moore) died 
Sept 15, 1833, aged 10 mos; Mary .lane 
(wife of Daniel Moore) born June 
1833, aged 29 yrs; Frank J. born Aug 
4, 1862, died Nov 7, 1884; Amelia A. 
(wife of Martin L. Moore) born June 
10. 1838, died Jan 4, 1888; Alice (wife 
of John Moor) died June 8, 1859. aged 
58 yrs 9 mos 28 dys; John (tablet); 
David McCIeary (son of Lieut. Wil- 
liam and Sarah Moor) died Sent 7, 
1804. aged 13 mos; Martha died'Feb 
4, 1819. aged 19 yrs; "William (son of 
Lieut. William and Sarah Moor) died 
March 7. 1811, aged 21 yrs: Elizabeth 
McCIeary died Jan 7. 1821. aged 33 
yrs; Thomas died Feb 16. 1826, aged 31 
yrs. 
MORRISON, David died Mav 4, 1819, 
aged 38 yrs; Mary (dau of Robert and 
Jenet Morrison) died Nov 12. 1799, 
aged 15 yrs; Robert died Feb 12, 1S4R, 
aged 91 yrs; Jenny (wife) died May l' 
1832, aged 83 yrs; Rev. William died 
March 9, 1818, aged 70 yrs: Jane (wife) 
died Sept 18. 1829. aged 6S yrs: Mar- 
garet (dau) and wife of Perkins A 
Hodge, died April 13. 1829. aged 36 yrs; 
Mary Ann (dau) and wifeof JohnM.o' 
Bartley. died March 8, 1835. aged 32 
yrs; Rebekah died Dec 12. 1836^ aged 
50 yrs; John (son of Rev. Williani 
and Jane Morrison) died Sept 17. 1706 
aged 2 yrs 9 mos 27 dys; Eliza born 
-Vpril 5. 1797. died Dec 26, 1S63. 
MORSE, Stephen died Nov 16, 1848, aged 
72 yrs 9 mos; Meriam (wife) died Aug 
15, 1845, aged 55 yrs, 
NICHOLS, Ensign S. died Oct 12. 1828. 
aged 35 yrs; Jacob died May 13, 1827,' 
aged 42 yrs; Willie O. died Oct 20. IS69! 
aged 44 yrs 10 mos: Jonathan (son 
of Lieut. Jacob and Sarah Nichols 
died Nov 1. 1778. aged 3 yrs; Mary 
(dau of the same) died July 11. 1788. 
aged 19 yrs: James died Nov 5 18''6' 
aged 62 yrs; Sally (wife) died' June 
5. 1858. aged 72 yrs 2 mos 22 dys 
NESMITH. James died July 15. 1793, 
■""■°d 75 yrs: Mary (wife) died Feb •>! 
1805. aged 82 yrs: Dea James died 
March 1. 1796. agred 55 yrs, 



NEVINS, Dea. James born 1798, died 
lSi3: Mary Plummer (wife) born 1809 
died 1890; James E. (son) born 1838* 
died 1853; John born 1831. died 1856- 
Henry A. born 1843, died 1872; Sarah 
E. born 1846, died 1876 

N(JiYES Hattie M. (wife of Joseph 
Noyes) died Oct 8, 1869. aged 34 yrs 
6 mos; Infant (dau of the same)- 

, M ''''''''? J^'- """^ °f Carlos W. and 
<- lara J. Noyes) died Aug 1, 1861, aged 
1 yr 3mos 13 dys. 
PAGE, Joseph died June 2, 1847 aged 
f. f«,^ mos, Rhoda (wife) die'd Jan 
1^, 1882, aged 91 yrs; Paul died May 20 
1812, aged 57 yrs; Sarah («-ife) died 
Jan 19 1814. aged 55 yrs; Samuel ed 

?^'-^. ^-"/l ^^^'^ ^5 yrs: Elizabeth 
(wife) died Nov 20, 182.5, aged 37 yrs- 
Sarah died April 16 1840, aged 31 yrs' 
Margaret died Sept 5. 1835, aged 24 
yrs; Amos died Feb 4, 1826, aged 50 
yrs; Sarah (wife) died Jan 4 18''6 
aged .50; Sarah (wife of Daniel An- 
derson) died July 3, 1836, aged 72 vrs- 
Mehitable (wife of Charles P Page) 

Zenetta N. (dau of Charles P. and Me- 
hitable Page) died July ,30. 18.54, aged 
-- mos; Serena (dau of the same) died 
Aug 3(), 1851, aged 1 yr 9 mos; Mary 
Ann (dau of the same) died Sept 12, 
1851, aged 4 yrs 7 mos. 
PARKER, Esther died Aug 25 1850 
aged 85 yrs. ' ' 

PATTERS(3N, Peter died March 28, 
T • oP*^ ^^ ^■''^' Cf'sel (wife) died 
June 29, 1817, aged 94 yrs; John died 
Aug 29. 1,93. aged 42 yrs 7 mos 8 dys- 
Dea Thomas died May 20, 1834 aged 
87 yrs; Elizabeth (wife) died Dec 30 
1833, aged 78 yrs; James died (in Mis- 
SLSsippi) June 4, 1815, aged 37 yrs- 
^V^. ''^°" °* ^''^ Thomas and Eliz- 
abeth) died Feb 19, 1793, aged V hrs- 
George Washington (son of Thomas 
and Hannah D.) died Dec ''2 1849 
aged 16 yrs; Thomas (son of Thomas 
and Hannah) died Dec 15. 1847, aged 
23 yrs; Mary Can-oline (dau of the 
same) died Aug 7, 1838, aged 2 vrs 9 
mos; Hannah D. (dau of the s'ame) 
oi^'f iS??i '^- ^^-^' ^^""'^ 2 yrs 5 mos. 
o„ ^°^^' -^^^ clied Sept 1. 1865. aged 
Si yrs 10 mos 28 dys; Maria M. (wife of 
Orville A. Peabody) died Aug 11 1865 
aged 37 yrs 4 mos 21 dys: Willie w' 
(sor, of Orville A. and Maria Peabody) 
died Oct 1. 1863. aged 8 yrs 7 mo^: 
Jame.s N. (son of the same) died April 
3, 1864. aged 4 yrs 3 mos 16 dvs; Idae 
(dau) died April 19. 1864. aged 12 vrs 
5 mos 16 dys, 
PERKINS, Joseph died (in Texas) 
March 28, 1836, aged 24 yrs; Franklin 
died (at sea) March 26. 1843. aged 19 
yrs: James died April 8. 1,S64. aged 84 
yrs 3 mos; Sarah (wife) died March 22 
1859. aged 69 yrs; Sarah died Nov 5 
1810. aged 10 mos; Sarah died Aug 5 
182/. aged 2 yrs. ' 

PEDRICK. Elizabeth died Nov 6 1848 
aged 69 yrs; (see Bartlevs) 

^^^J?*"^- .^''''''^ H- '"^"f^ of Leverett 
S. Pelton). 

PICKERING. Daniel died May 21 1863 
aged 65 yrs 3 mos. 

PIKE, Ma,ry C. (wife of Eben Pike) died 
Aug 4, 1832, aged 31 yrs; Mary Ann 
died, aged 2 yrs 6 mos 9 dys (dau of 
Eben and Mary C, Pike) 

PILLSBITRY, Anna (dau of W. S. and 
Hannah Pillsbury) died July 30. 1861 
aged 1 yr 4 mos 14 dys; John Thur.s- 
ton (son of the same) died May 3 186'' 
aged 2 mos 27 dys; Stephen P." (son o'f 
the same) died Sept 7. 1869. aged 1 yr 
:Lo'^'^' Arthur A. (son) died Nov 30 
lSi3, aged 11 mos 17 dys; Martha Eva 
(dau) died Nov 11, 1874, aged 6 mos 16 
dys. 

PINKERTON. Elder John died Aug 7 
J8.29, aged 60 yrs: Dea, James die(3 



WIL LEY'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



335 



Jan 6, 1829, aged 81 yrs; Elizabeth 
(wife of Dea. James Pinkerton) died 
Aug 25, 1804, aged 42 yrs: Sarah (wife 
of Dea. James Pinkerton) died April 
5, 1845, aged 70 yrs; Isabella (dau of 
Elder James and Elizabeth Pinker- 
ton) died April 9. 1796, aged 2 yrs 7 
mos 6 dys; Mary Ann (wife of Robert 
S. Rogers and dau of John and Mary 
Pinkerton) died Nov 1, 1828, aged 23 
yrs; Ensign John A. died April 24, 1821, 
aged 27 yrs; James (son of Jolin and 
Mary Pinkerton) died Oct 14, 1803. 
aged 3 yrs; Matthew (son of the same) 
died Nov 2, 1802, aged 4 yrs: Mary 
(wife of John Pinkerton) died Nov 29, 
1838, aged 68 yrs; Jedediah died June 
2, 1799, aged 2 yrs; Sarah died Aug 21, 
1818, aged 6 yrs. 

RANDALL, Hannah E. (dau of Alfred 
and Hannah Randall) born Jan 23, 
1840, died Jan 15, 1859. 

RATTRAY, James W. born (in Dundee 
Sontland) March 6, 1815, died Nov 13, 
1881; Alice F. Randall (wife) born (in 
Lee, N. H.) June 16. 1811, died Aug 1, 
1885: James W. (son) born Oct 2, 1851, 
died Aug 7, 1854. 

REMINGTON. Justin M. (son of John 
and Mairy S. Remington) died Oct 15, 

1862, aged 2 yrs 4 mos 15 dys: Mari- 
anma A. (dau of John and Mary S. 
and wife of S. A. Estey) died Sept 21, 
1879, aged 20 yrs 9 mos 6 dys. 

REMSHEIR. Mrs. Sarah died May 1, 
1804, aged 77 yrs, 

RIPLEY, Winnie A. died April 17, 1874, 
aged 6 yrs 8 mos 11 dys. 

RUSSELL. Nathan B. died July 2, 1853, 
aged 24 yrs. 

SAMPSON. Branch died Jan 1, 1852, 
aged 82 yrs: Mary (wife) died Nov 7, 
1848, aged 76 yrs; Branch born March 
2, 1804, died April 8, 1893: Alice K. 
born April 5, 1816, died Jan 11. 1890: 
Hannah W. (wife of Edward Samp- 
son) died July 24, 1865, aged 24 yrs 8 
mos 11 dys. 

SARGENT, Mary (wife of Reuben Sar- 
gent) died May 23, 1830, aged 60 yrs, 

SAVORY, Thomas died Dec 16, 1867, 
aged 84 yrs: Grisel (wife) died April 
10, 1832. aged 50 yrs; Dea. Jonathan 
died Feb 25. 1841, aged 81 yrs; Han- 
nah (wife) died Sept 18, 1819, aged 58 
yrs; Betsey (dau) died Aug 4, 1818, 
aged 23 yrs; Hanna.h died Maroh 7, 
18.33, aged 44 vrs. 

SCULLEY. Catharine (dau of Willia.m 
and Catharine Sculley) died Dec 27, 
1855, aged 18 yrs 4 mos. 

SHEA, Sarah (wife of Philip Shea) died 
Nov 16, 1853, aged 59 yrs 9 mos. 

SHIPLEY, Amos died May 1. 1823, aged 
43 yrs; Mai->- B. (wife) died Feb 2, 

1863, aged 78 yrs; Annas M. (son) died 
Aug 25, 1854, aged 1 yr 6 mos; Daniel 
T. died May 10. 1883. aged 63 yrs; 
CaJtbarine D. (wife) died Aug 21 1859, 
a.ged 40 yrs; Charles Winslow (son) 
died April 1, 18.58, aged 8 yrs 8 mos 
9 dys: George Frank (son) died Sept 9, 
1859, aged 26 dys: Mary Hyde (dau of 
Daniel T. and Ellen Shipley) died 
Jan 28, 1867, aged 1 yr 8 mos 14 dys; 
Katie (dau) died Nov 8, 1872, aged 
1 yr 5 mos; John died Jan 2, 1875, aged 
65 yrs 9 mos; Rebekah Dickey (wife) 
died April 10, 1880, aged 67 yrs 4 mos; 
Mary Frances (dau of John and Re- 
bekah Shipley) died Jan 28, 1842, aged 
3 yrs 3 mos; Anna (wife of Joseph 
Shipley and dau of Hartley and Alice 
Knight) died Aug 23, 1863. aged 25 yrs 
9 mos, 

STEELE, Ma.i->- Jane (wife of James C. 
Steele) died March 3, 1850. aged 32 vrs. 

SMITH, Alexander died March 5, 1858, 
aged 64 yrs 9 mos 11 dys; Clarissa M, 
died May 23, 1832, aged 2 yrs 3 mos; 
Samuel died May 29, 1875, aged 74 yrs; 
Almira (wife) died April 25. 1868, 
aged 55 yrs; Samuel died May 14, 1842, 
ag'ed 46 yrs; Samuel died Sept 13. 1840, 



aged 77 yrs; Agnes (wife) died Aug 22, 
1845, aged 78 yrs; Hugh (son) died Sept 

7, 1802, aged 3 yrs; Olive (dau) died Oct 
8,1805, aged 3 yrs; Emma A, died June 

8, 1863, aged 20 yrs. 

SNELL, Henry Preston (son o-f R. T. 
and S. M. died July 23, 1858, aged 1 yr 
4 mos 14 dys. 

STROUTT, Miss Margery died MarOh 
12, 1835, aged 74 yrs. 

STUART. Salona died May 10, 1887, 
aged 78 yrs; Flora died Aug 17, 1868, 
aged 117 yrs. 

TENNEY, Albert died 1895; Mary 
A. Young (Wife) died Nov 7, 
1860, aged 37 yrs, 7 mos; Asa died Jan 
5, 1818, aged 60 yrs: Molly (wife) died 
Aug 27, 1831, aged 77 yrs; David died 
June 19, 1837. aged 47 yrs; Arley P. 
(dau of David and Persis) died Maroh 
19, 1842, aged 10 yrs. 

THOMPSON. John died April 19, 1851, 
aged 33 yrs; Prances (wife) died July 
4, 1879, aged 61 yrs; Margaret (wife of 
James ThompEon) died March 9,. 1794, 
aged 27 yrs; Robert (son of Robert and 
Margaret) died June 7, 1793, aged 31 
yrs, at sea on passage from South 
Carolina home. 

TOWNS. Sarah E. died Aug 24. 1825, 
aged 2 yrs 6 mos (dau of John and 
Elizabeth Towns): Moses M. (son of 
Moses and Charlotte Towns) born 
Aug 22, 1793, died Oct 4, 1804: Susannah 
born May 16, 1802. died Oct 10, 1804, 
(dau of the same). 

TUCKER, Miss Alice (dau of Morris 
and Mai-y Tucker) died Maroh 3, 1792, 
aged 23 yrs. 

WATTS, Daniel died Aug 23, 1858, aged 
73 yrs; Po'Ily died Sept 27, 1850, aged 
57 yrs: Jenny (wife of Moses Garvin) 
died Feb 10. 1862. aged 80 yrs; Daniel 
M. (son of Horace P. and Maria) died 
March 9. 1847, aged 1 yr 6 mos; John 
died April 5, 1819. aged 71 yrs; Susan- 
nah (wife) died April 16, 1826, aged 
73 yrs: Capt James dSed Sept 12, 1831. 
aged 71 yrs; Peggy died Sept 29, 1812, 
aged 4 yrs; John died Dec 20, 1812, aged 
6 yrs; Mos«s died May 6, 1829, aged 31 
yrs; Hugh died May 18, 1830. aged 28 
yrs; Esther died April 19, 1832, aged 
22 yrs. 

WEBSTER, Roxana died Sept 11, 1854. 
aged 64 yrs; Jonathan died Oct 10, 
1866, aged 67 yrs; Mary A. (wife) died 
Feb 13, 1881, aged 68 yrs 6 mos 11 dys; 
David C. (son) died Dec 6, 1859, aged 
16 yrs 5 mos. 

WILCOX. Miss Deboraih died March 18, 
1836. aged 61 vre. 

WILKINS, Jerusha M. C. (wife of Hi- 
ram Wilkins) died Sept 30, 1844. aged 
26 vrs; Harriet E. (dau) died . 

WILSON. Samuel died Feb 19, 1805, 
aged 42 yrs; Samuel (son of Samuel 
and Mary Wilson) died Sept 11, 1804, 
aged 3 yrs; Samuel died Dec 4, 1801, 
aged 73 yrs 4 mos; Elizabeth (wife) 
died July 14, 1816, aged 85 yrs; Mary 
Adams (wife of John Wilson) died 
Jan 27, 1817, aged 26 yrs; Infant (child 
of same); Infant (child of John and 
Nancy Wilson); Lieut. James died 
May 28, 1836, aged 70 yrs; Mary Ann 
(wife) died Dec 4, 1839, aged 70 yrs; 
Samuel died Oct 10. 1829, aged 31 yrs; 
James died May 25, 1S12, aged 10 wks; 
Sophoronia (dau of James and Mary 
Ann) died April 17, 1839, aged 30 yrs. 

WHITE, Edgar William (son of Isaac 
and Elizabeth White) died Sept 11. 
18.54, aged 7 mos 10 dys. 

WHITTIER. Daniel M. died Sept 11. 
1851. aged 38 yrs; Rachel H. (dau of 
Daniel and Nancy Whittier) died 
May 21. 1864, aged 15 yrs 5 mos; Abi- 
gail died Jan 17, 1887. aged 68 yrs 10 
mos; Maria (dau of Joshua and Abi- 
gail Whittier) died March 26, 1880. 
aged 71 yrs 7 mos: Ebenezer died Sept 
26. 1849, aged 52 yrs; Lucy J. (dau of 
Ebeneger and Lucy S, Whittier) died 



Oct 5, 1851, aged 4 yrs 6 mos; George 
N. vson of the same) died Sept 27, 1851, 
aged 3 yrs 3 mos: Newton (son of the 
same) died Aug 27, 1844, aged 6 mos; 
Abigail died Sept 19, 1851. aged 78 yrs; 
Joshua aied May 25. 1842. aged 76 yrs; 
Capt. Samuel F. died Nov 21, 1828, 
aged 30 yrs; William (son of Joshua 
and Abigail Whittier) born Sept 20, 
1802, died April 7, 1813; David (son of 
the same) born Dec 11, 1810, died April 
7, 1813; Elizabeth (dau of the same) 
died Dec 25, 1823, aged 9 yrs. 
WALLACE. Hannah G. died Jan 21, 

1859. aged 74 yrs. 
WHORF. John M. died Nov 10. 1876. 
aged 55 yrs 10 mos; Ella Velbora (dau 
of John M. and Sarah M. Whorf) died 
Aug 1. 1854, aged 4 yrs 4 mos 6 dys; 
Emma J, (dau of the same) died 
March 10, 1848, aged 6 mos 17 dys; 
Abbie; Etta; Baby. 
WOODBURN. John died Aug 29. 1868, 
aged 42 yrs 8 mos; Frances A. (dau of 
John and Lucinda Woodburn) died 
April 23, 1854, aged 2 yrs 7 mos 8 dys; 
John born Sept 15, 1796, died Oct 12, 
1868; Lieut, Benjamin died Sept 18, 
1822, aged 33 yrs, also James Giles 
died March 12, 1837. aged 35 yrs; 
James G. (son of Samuel and Lucre- 
tia) died June 1, 1842, aged 1 yr 11 mos 
17 dys; Mehitable (wife of John Wood- 
burn) died Aug 11, 1848. aged 51 yrs; 
Noyes M. (son of John and Mehitable) 
died July 16, 1851, aged 21 yrs; Mary- 
ann (dau of the same) died July 10, 
1825, aged 4 yrs 6 mos; David (son of 
the same) died Sept 26, 1848, aged 20 
yrs; George W. (son of the same) 
died July 5, 1825, aged 5 yrs 8 mos; 
Charles (son of the same) died July 
5, 1825, aged 1 yr 8 mos; Jane (wife of 
David Woodburn) died Jan 1, 1843, 
aged 82 yrs. 
WOODBURY. Samuel died June 3. 1878. 
aged 65 yrs 8 mos 6 dys; Charles W. 
(son of Samuel and Louisa) died Jan 
12, 1884, aged 34 yrs 1 mo; Samuel L.. 
Co. H. 18th reg. N. H. vol. died Feb 
27, 1865, aged 20 yrs; Benjamin F. died 
Jan 8, 1865, aged 22 yrs 9 mos; James 
G. died June 1. 1842. aged 1 yr 11 mos 
17 dys: John Albert (son of B. F. and 
L. Woodbury) died March 2. 1870. aged 
4 yrs 9 mos: Infant (dau of same). 
YOUNG. Sarah Gilcreast (wife of 
Charles L. Young) born 1816, died 
1890; Charles W. (son of Wesley and 
Lillie Young) died Oct 16. 1886. aged 6 
yrs 8 mos 3 dys; John (son of James 
and Elizabeth Wilkins) died Aug. 26. 
1870, aged 3 mos 23 dys; Charles E. 
(son of the same) died Jan. 8. 1861. 
aged 4 yrs 3 mos 15 dys; Israel died 
May 16. 1849. aged 60 yrs; Nathan P. 
(son of Ephraim and Martha P. 
Young) died May 1. 1867, aged 24 yrs 
11 mos; Ephriam J. (son of the same) 
died Aug. 28. 1849. aged 1 yr 10 mos; 
Martha (wife of Ephraim Young) 
born Feb 10. 1805. died Jan 15, 1887. 
This is the inscription on the monu- 
ment erected to the memory of a well- 
known divine: 

"In the memory of the Reverend Wil- 
liam Morrison. D. D., for 35 years the 
beloved and honored pastor of this 
church. From nature he inherited an 
energetic and capacious mind, with a 
heart of tenderest sensibility: from 
grace all the virtues which adorn the 
man and the Christian. As a divine, a 
preacher and a pastor he held acknowl- 
edged eminence. With apostolic simjili- 
city and genume eloquence he preached 
Jesus Christ and Him crucified. He 
died in sweet peace and animated hope 
March 9. 1818. aged 70. 

When this monument erected by his 
mournin.g (lock shai. have gone to de- 
cay, his dear memory will still remain; 
for the righteous shall be in everlast- 
ing remembrance. 



FOREST HILL CEMETERY, EAST DERRY. 



pOREST HILL CEMETERY was originally 
A called the Graveyard, and a few years later, 
when other places of burial were set apart within 
the limits of the township, this spot was referred 
to in the records as the Old Burying Ground in 
Londonderry. It lies upon the hill near the First 
church and is the oldest and princijial yard for the 
interment of the dead within the territory 
embraced in the charter of the old towmship of 
Londonderry. Various additional lots have been 
enclosed under the present title, and the area 
many times exceeds the original space. The age 
of gravestones cannot be established by reference 
to the inscriptions, but there are indications that 
some of the stones now standing in the yard were 
erected in the first year of the charter, and many 
more within ten years, or prior to 1732. For this 
reason, and on account of the continued use of the 
graveyard to the present date, the inscriptions 
found in Forest Hill Cemetery constitute a special 
and consecutive history of this town in the trans- 
mission of family names. Many family monu- 
ments contain records of descents and marriages 
and specify the localities where branches of the 
family settled. In the effort to preserve records 
in stone, it is interesting to notice that monuments 
are frequently erected to a large number of per- 
sons, not one of whom is buried near or even in 
the same cemetery. This custom of honoring 
ancestral names is in marked distinction to the 
primitive form, " Here lieth the body of," etc. 
The present custom of marking monuments in 
memory of persons who are buried in other 



cemeteries must eventually lead to confusion and 
neglect of the real places of burial. Even now it 
is surprising to notice the number of duplicate 
settings and repetitions of inscriptions. 

It may be said with pride that the dust of the 
departed resting in the old burying ground on the 
hill by the First church has a venerable and distin- 
guished record. The names engrossed on the quaint 
old stones are worthy of a place in imperishable 
history. There is a wonderful catalogue of more 
than ordinary men, a notable army of generals 
and minor officers, jurists, physicians, divines, 
deacons, elders, teachers, and benefactors of the 
human race. Any person who has searched among 
the oldest stones will appreciate the labor of 
deciphering the inscriptions, and understand the 
value of an effort to preserve records that are 
yearly crumbling and disappearing. Many stones 
have already disappeared. It is possible that a few 
more inscriptions might be obtained if the whole 
surface of the ground were turned and fragments 
of stones gathered, but the present tendency of 
memorialization will remove the necessity for 
dependence upon tablets for records of deaths and 
ages. Public official registers will eventually con- 
tain complete statistics of the individual and 
material for genealogical histories will be within 
the reach of every student, and the individual can 
be traced from Maine to California without the 
aid of a detective agency. Following is an 
alphabetical list of all the decipherable names in 
the Old Buryinp- Ground: 



ABBOTT, Monument (no names). 

ACKERMAN, Jonathan B. born Aug 
21, 1S26; Susan D. (wife of Jonathan 
Ackerman) died April ."i. 182.5. 

ADAMS, Samuel died Sept 12, 1861, 
aged 82 yrs; Sarah Fitz (his wife) 
died April 26, 1878, aged 84 yrs; Mary 
W. died Nov 9, 1818, aged 1 yr 1" dys; 
Marion W. died Feb 3, 1877. aged 10 
yrs: Frank W. died Feb 1, 1867, aged 
7 yrs 5 mos; John S. died Dec 18, 1889, 
aged 76 yrs 4 mos; Mary J. (his wife) 
born? Edmund died Dec 10. 1868, aged 
66 yrs 10 mos; Jane Marsh (his wife) 
died June 10, 183.S, aged 27 yrs; George 
W. (their son) died April 4, 1832, aged 
1 yr; Benjamin died March 19. 1883. 
aged 87 yrs; Albert died Sept 9. 1862. 
aged 21 yrs; James C :i. G, 59th Mas- 
sachusetts Reg. died a,t Washington 

D. C, Aug 9, 1864, aged 21 yrs; Mary 

E. died Jan 20, 1874, aged 38 yrs; 
David H. (son of Robert and Almira 
Adams) Co. A, lOth Reg-. N. H, Vol. 



died Falmouth, Va., Jan 18, 1863, 
aged 21 yrs; Robert W. (stone); 
Almira A. J. (his wife) born Feb 26, 
1S21, died Sept 29, 1853; Frank (their 
son) boi'n March 2, 1851, died Sept 10, 
1853; Frank G. born April 11, 1840, 
died Feb 7, 18S7; Hannah F. (his 
wife); Viola (their dau) born Sept 15, 
1869, died Oct 27, 1869; Harriet (wife 
of Samuel Adams) died Feb 25, 1881, 
aged 79 yrs 6 inos 12 dys; Helen (wife 
of Fred A. Adams) died Oct 22. 1884, 
aged 19 yrs 7 mos; Capt. Amos died 
March 30. 1813. aged 45 yrs; Edmund 
died Jan 18. 1825. aged 84 yrs; Hannah 
hiis wife) died Sept 14. 1807, aged 66 
yrs; Hannah (their dau) died June 
5, 1795, aged 20 yrs; Almira A. (dau) 
of Parker and Nancy Adams) died 
June 22, 1828, aged 15 yrs; Nancy 
(Mrs.) died April 14, 1835, aged 46 yrs; 
Mary E. (dau of Moody and Eliza 
Adams) died Feb 15, 1847, aged 11 yrs 
.'5 mos 15 dys; Moody died Sept 5, 1848, 

33(> 



aged 45 yrs; Eliza (his wife) died 
March 19, 1881, aged 73 yrs 23 dys; 
Andrew M. died Feb 6, 1856. aged 22 
yrs 10 mos; Capt. Janies died March 
14 1847, aged 77 yrs; Polly (his wife) 
died Nov 5, 1860, aged 84 yrs 2 mos 16 
dys; Jane (their dau) died March 1, 
1S20, aged 9 yrs; Mary (dau) born 
1797, died ISSl; Martha G. (dau) born 
ISOO, died 1S72; Capt. William died 
May 10, 1881. aged 73 yrs; Helen (dau 
of William and Susan Adams) died 
April 23. 1855, aged 16 yrs 9 mos 11 
dys; James died May 1, 1853, aged 88 
yrs; Anna (his wife) died July 1, 
1846, aged 73 yrs: Hannah (wife O'f 
John Hunkins) died Nov 19, 1872. 
aged 73 yrs 6 mos; Our Baby (infant 
F'On of Dr. I. H. and L. S. Adams) 
died Oct 26, 1879; Charles B. born Nov 
25, 1846, died June 17, 1864: Nellie 1. 
born Nov 28. 1S60. died July 20. 1894; 
Ethel Eunice (dau of Dr. I. H. and I^. 
S, Adams died Sept 3, 1890, aged 5 mos; 



IVILLETS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



Charles A. born Jan 24 1S22 died Feb 
3 1874; Sarah P. born Aug 1, lS2i.die(l 
Sept 21, 1S92; Mary E. (wife o£ Orison 
G Reed) died May IS. ^^f-^f%J^, 
yrs 4 mos 2« dys; Edmund died Sept 
8, 1858. ag-ed 81 yrs; Blizaboai hi>^ 
wife) died May 2. 1858. aged ,6 yis, 
John K. (their son) died Darren C,a., 
Au- 14 185G. aged 45 yrs; Amos 
(their son) died BroomHeld. 111.. Aug 
21 1S56. aged 27 yrs; Hannah 1. 
Moses died March 18 1859 aged 80 
vrs; Lieut. David died Nov 28 1843, 
aged 77 vrs; Jennett (his wife) died 
l^'b 18. i835. aged 60 yrs; Jarnes 
(their son) died Dover. N. H-. ^^Pt », 

Jllfd Se'pt 6.' 17-^8 aged 59 y:;s Robert 

?^?^^^.^^!A:%tro;?Savir^ 

Mkr'v Adams) of Harvard University 
died March 4 1805. aged 22 yrs- Elder 
David d\ed Jan 24 1838 aged 83 >n-s; 
Marv (his wife) died Sept 19. 1816. 
aged 64 yrs; Samuel died Jan 12, 1822. 
aled 69 yrs; Mary died April 2. 1S3S 
aled .57 yrs;' Mary W .(dau of Sanauel 
and Sarah Adams) died Nov 9. 1818. 
a«d 1 yr 14 dys. (Following their 
nimes on a large horizontal slab 
slightlv raised from the ground) 
Horn William born Feb 6 1755 died 
Oct 5. 1S2S. aged 73 yrs; Jennett (his 
w^te) born Oct 20. 1763. died Dec 2 
^828, aged 65 yrs; James AM. (their 
only son) born Nov 7, li85, died 
Ziil 15, 1817. aged 31 yrs; James 
died June 5. 1847. aged SO yrs; Judith 
fhls wKe) died April 27. 1823. aged 44 
vrs Lucinda (their dau) died Sept 3, 
\\U aged 8 vrs; Elizabeth (dau) died 
4nt 11 1826 aged 10 yrs; Jane S. 

(dau) died Sept "j. l^^^' ,'i'=^l, Z-ed 
Sarah S. (dau) died Dec 31 1812, a„ed 
17 mos; William died Nov !• l'"!; 
as-ed 72 yrs; Mary (wife of ,^ '">^ 
Idam^) died Oct 15, 1755, aged 61 yrs 
Mary (Wife of Lieut. James Adams) 
dled'july 20, 1800, aged " yrs; LieuL 

James died March H' "^lj„f/'^^„.ed 

,„.= • Rachel died March 1, 1844, ageu 

TQ vi- Capt Jonathan died. March 

, 1 lo, age'd 91 yrs; Sar^h Oiis wife) 

5-^^iie^H:^^s£^.|?. 

|;ider John Holmes) <J'?d Nov -9. 
Ct'23,'israg?d 4 mos; Fran-s H. 

i%^^^i^s;;^^idi:d5;^ 

fn ls6s' aled 60 vrs; Joanna D. (his 
wife) dief Ipril 27, 1S36 aged 27 >-rs; 

^^.^^^^^^^^ 

Me^oo in the service of his country 
r,n aiinboat Ki lalinny Oct 23, isb.i. 
aSed 20 yrs; Grace A. (dau of Joseph 
R^ and Ilmira F. Adams) died Jub 
M 1S4<* aged 5 yrs 4 mos 21 dys. 
Katie i. (dau of the same) died May 
8 1S49 aged 8 mos 10 dys. 
The following inscription is g'ven en- 
tire' "Vir bonus cujus benevolentia in 
eximplum Transiit. To the memory of 
Tac?b Adams, the liberal founder of 
i^lams Female Academy, the first en- 
dows! literary institution established 
fn New England for the especial benefit 
of females. Born Jan 14. 17S5. died Aug 
W ml Erected in grateful remem- 
brance of the trustees of A. F. A. 



AIKEN. Edward died April 1. 1812 
aged 11 yrs; Jean (dau of James and 
5fan Aien) died Aug 3 1729. aged 4 
vrs- Samuel died April 6. ISU. aged lo 
vrs^ EMer James died Jan 9. 1S30. aged 
%\ vrs- Elizabeth (his wife) died Nov 
14 "l793. aged 52 yrs; Jane (his wife) 
died March 28. 1831, aged 72 yrs; John 
C. died Aug 10, 1867, aged 51 yr.s; Wal- 
ter H. died Sept :?0. 1842. aged 11 yrs; 
(both sons of Jonathan Aiken of Goffs- 
town. N. H.); Jonathan Aiken of 
Goffstown died in New York, born in 
Londonderry Oct 12. 1819. died July 
20 1S6S; Nancy Patterson (his wife) 
died Feb 2. 1880. aged 90 yrs; Sarah 
bnrn Oct S. 1769. died Sept 1. 1792, aged 
■>3 vrs- Margaret born iNOV 21, !(((>. 
died Feb 13. 1S16. aged 38 yrs; Marga- 
Aiken) diea July 3. 1755. aged 5 yrs; 
ret (dau of Nathaniel and Margaret 
Eleanor died Jan 17. 1757, aged 23 yrs; 
Edward died July 5, 1747, aged 90 yrs; 
Barbara (his wife) died Aug 3, li44, 
aged 83 yrs. 
ALDRICH, Frank A. (son of Charles 
and j:.ila Aldrich) died April 22 18i2. 

aged 10 mo. , , . ■, .ic 

ALEXANDER. James died April -5. 
1809 aged 82 vrs; Jenny (his wife), 
died Feb 3, 1811, aged 74 yrs; James 
Alva (son of Alva and Mary A. Alex- 
ander) died Feb 14. 1849. aged 3 mos 4 
dys: David died Aug 1. 1746. aged 19 
yrs- Robert died June 11. 1761. aged 46 
yrs- Randal died Oct 13. 1770. aged 83 
yrs- Elizabeth (wife of John Alexan- 
der) died July 2, 1804. aged 65 yrs; 
Moses died May 4. 1849. aged 73 yrs; 
Nancy H. (his wife) died Aug 10. 1829. 
aged 48 yrs; John Hays (their son) 
died April 22. 1S15. aged 6 yrs 6 mos; 
Aseenath (dau) died April 15. 1S15 
aged 6 mos 15 dys; Deacon John died 
Jan 7 1S09, aged 52 yrs; Joseph died 
April '22. 1798. aged 29 yrs; Isaac died 
April 7. 1802. aged 31 yrs (three sons 
of James and Jenny Alexander); An- 
na died March 29. 1816, aged 10 yrs; 
James died Oct 29, 1816. aged 5 yrs 
(two children of James and Sarah 
Alexander). 
ALLISON. Samuel died Sept 6, libO. 
aged 70 yrs; Katherine (his wife) died 
Jan 13. 1760. aged 70 yrs; Captain Sam- 
uel (their son) died June 5. 1794. aged 
70 yrs- Janet McFarland (wife of 
Capt. Samuel Allison) died at Weath- 
ersfield Vt.. Oct 16. 1809. aged 85 yrs; 
Katrine died Feb 11. 174S. aged 3 mos; 
Susan died Aug 6. 1758. aged 1 dy; 
Naomi Pinkerton died June 15. 1799. 
aged 3 vrs: John Samuel died March 
30. 1799. aged 7 yrs; Betsey (wife of 
John Allison) died Nov 8, 1799. aged 
33 yrs. 
ALMY. Charles Eugene (son of Capt. 
John C. and Ruth Almy) died March 
9. 1830. aged 14 mos. 
ANDERSON. Susan C. (wife of Capt. 
William Anaerson) died Oct 23. 1826. 
aged 42 yrs; Daniel Dana died April 
19 1884. aged 50 yrs; William born 
Feb 16. 1798. 'died Feb 3. 1888: Allen 
died Sept 17. 1755. aged 67 yrs; Mary 
(his wife) died Sept 9. 1760. aged 66 
yrs (both these names on one horizon- 
tal slab weii preserved); James died 
Jan 25. 1771. aged 88 yrs: Samuel died 
April 25. 1748, aged 2 yrs; Agnes (dau 
of James and Agnes Anaerson) died—: 
Agnes (wife of James Anderson) died 
Feb 5. 1767. aged 39 yrs. 
ANGLi^L. Everett R.. 1880-1890, stones 
of rare designs, polished only on one 
side, with inscriptions. "See them up 
yonder," "In God's workshop," "Until 
"the day dawns and the darkness dis- 
appears." 
ARCHIBALD, John died Nov 15, 172S, 
aged 35 yrs; Ann (wife of Robert Arch- 
ibald) died April ... 1765, aged 97 yrs; 
John died Aug 10, 1751, aged 58 yrs. 



337 

ARNOLD, Charles W. died Sept 11, 

1886, aged 27 yrs 1 mo 26 dys. 
AUSTIN, Suarick R. died June 19. 1863. 

aged 5 yrs 8 mos 7 dys. 
BACHELDER monument (oblong). 
Daniel born May 19 iS03, died Sept 1, 
1881- Sallv (his wife) born Dec 17, 1808, 
died May 27. 1884: Charles C. born 
Nov 24, 1833, died Dec 6, 1851; Emma 
P (wife of C. T. Reaney) born March 
4 1853. died Aug 29. 1882; Sally (wife 
of David Bachelder) dieu — pril 28. 
1845. aged 46 yrs. 
BAILEY. Jeremiah died March 14. 1873, 
aged 59 yrs 9 mos: Emily Frances 
(dau of Jeremiah and Harriet Bailey) 
died Sept 18. 1856, aged 3 yrs; Lucy G. 
(wife of George B. Bailey) died Sept 9. 
1871. aged 21 yrs; Moses died Nov 16. 
183s' aged 66 yrs; Priscilla (his wife) 
died March 10. 1859. aged 78 yrs; Moses 
Jr. died Sept 14. 1843. aged 39 yrs; Mary 
died May 22. 1845. aged 25 yrs. 
BAKER, Elijah born Newbury, N. H.. 
April 1 1800. died Sept 16. 186S; Charles 
N (son of John and Lucy Baker) died 
May 19. 1867. aged 25 yrs 2 mos; George 
(son of the same) died March 2,. 1841, 
aged 9 yrs 21 dys; AVilliam S. (see Bal- 

BALLOIT. Edward died Sept 19. 1863. 
aged 63 yrs 10 mos; Isabella McDole 
(dau of Edward and Isabella McGreg- 
or Ballou) died July 31. 1855. aged 16 
yrs 10 mos: Samuel Aiken (son of Ed- 
ward and Isabella Ballou) died Sept 
16 1843. aged 16 yrs 6 mos; Sarah ^\ . 
(dau of the same and wife of William 
S Baker) died Sept 11. 1865. aged 29 
vrs- Sarah Ann (wife of Alexander 
Baliou) died April 2. 1833, aged 23 yrs 
BANKS Martha (wife of Samuel 
Banks) died April 30. 1768. aged 65 yrs; 
Sarah (dau of Samuel and Martha 
Banks) died May 3. 1783. aged 22 yrs; 
Isabella (wife of John Rabbins) died 
Jan 26. 1893, aged 69 yrs 5 mos. 
BARBER. Mary died Oct 24, 1762, aged 

BARKER, Lizzie A. born Feb 23^ 1843. 
died Jan 4, 1891; Annie J. born Dec 23 
1839 died March IS. 1888 (two daus of 
Benjamin and Clarissa Barker); Ben- 
jamin born Sept 2. 1808, died March 25^ 
1893- Clarissa Corning (his wife) bom 
April 27 1802, died Dec 8. 1893; Maria 
J Merrill (wife of George W. Barker) 
died Sept 8. 1869. aged 36 yrs. 

BARTLETT, Squire Greenleaf C. (notea 
lawyer in Derry) born Nottingham 
Mav 7 1822. died April 10. 1893; Abram 
L. (son) died Aug 30. 1865; Fredenc D^ 
(son) died March 21. 1877. aged 22 yrs 

BARNETT. John died Oct 8. 1740. aged 
86 yrs; William (son) died 1749. aged 
11 yrs- Sarah (wife of John Barnett. 
Jr.) died Jan 28. 1760. aged 25 y,;s; Han- 
nah (their dau) died April 20 L53 
aged 18 yrs; Margaret (dau of John 
and Jean Barnett) died Sept 17. L.l 
aged 55 vrs: Robert died June 5. 1834 
afed 46'yrs: Parker (son of Robert 
and Sarah Barnett) died Aug 24 1825 
aSed 4 vrs; John (son of Robert and 
EHzabeth Barnett) died Sept 26. 76 . 
aged 1 yr: Robert died Feb 24, 1(72, 

BARNiRD.'Thomas (son of Capt. Ed- 
tard and Elizabeth Barnard and 
great grandson of Lucy Martin) died 

BiR"R."joh' dfed LYy%. 1731 aged 82 
yrsfjane (his wife) died Nov 16. L3, 
aged 66 vrs: Mary (wife of Samuel 
B'arr) died June 19. 1750, aged 36 yrs. 

BASSETT, Maria H. (wife of West fe. 
msseU) died Nov 23. 1853, aged 33 yrs: 
Maria West (their dau) died Sept 4, 
1853 aeed 19 dys: David died June ». 
Isst aled 82 yre k mos; Mary Cheever 
(his wi?e) diel^Oct 15. 1876, aged 79 



.5JS 



WILLBT'S I500K OP NtfTPlPLD. 



yrs; William C. (their son) died April 
14, 1S56, aged 18 yrs 10 mos; Thomas 
died Sept 21, 1817, aged 51 yrs; Su- 
sanna McGregor (his wife and great 
granddaughter of Rev. James Mc- 
Gregor, the first pastor of this town) 
died Feb 11. 1S45. aged 70 yrs; liachel 
(their dau) died Jan 14, 1S14. aged 11 
yrs. 
BEAN, Ira G. died June 24, 1S74, aged 
68 yrs; Sarah A. Adams (his wife) died 
Dec 2, 1872, aged 58 yrs; John born Aug 
21, 1807, died Dec 16, 1887; Mary (his 
wife) died May 10, 1870, aged 64 yrs 
4 mos; John S. (son of John and Mao' 
Bean) died July 2S ISfi:!. aged 25 yrs 
14 dys; Ina H. (wife of C. O. Huntei 
and dau of John and Mary Bean) died 
Oct 5, 1868, aged 22 yrs; Catherine 
(wife of John S. Jenness) died Sept 11, 
1853, aged 25 yrs 26 dys; Widow De- 
boirah Hall of Strafford, N. H.. died 
May 17. 1854, aged 69 yrs 11 mos 28 dys 
(see Emery). 
BEEBE. Alpheus B. born 1816, died 
1893; Mary I. horn 1S55, died 1876; Ed- 
win A. born 1S57, died 1894. 
BELL (see Thorn). 

BETTON. Merdam G. (d'au of John and 
Eliza Betton) died Oct 15. 1808. aged 
18 yrs; Thornton died Sept 16, 1841. 
aged 41 yrs ;Ed ward Thornton (son of 
Thornton and Mary E. B. H. H. Bet- 
ton) died Oct 4, 1834, aged 4 mos; 
Mary (wife of Hon. Silas Betton and 
dau of Hon. Matthew Thornton one 
O'f the signers of Declaration of In- 
dependence) died May 28, 1845. aged 
77 yrs. 
BICKPORD, Oliver (wife of Samuel 
Bickford) died June 5, 1849, aged 84 
yrs. 
BLACK, Edmund died Oot 14, 1841, 
aged 77 yrs; Elizabeth (his mfe) died 
Aug 25, 1846, aged S3 yrs; Daniel died 
March 29, 1828, aged 28 yrs; Eliza 
(Miss) died Feb 16, 1829, aged 26 yrs; 
Almira died Sept 29, 1856, aged 49 
yrs, 
BLAKE, Enos died Nov 12, 1846, aged 
77 yrs; Elizabeth (wife of Enos Blake) 
died Sept 7, 1856. aged 84 yrs; Mary- 
Jane (dau of William and Mary Ann 
Blake) died Oct 5, 1832, aged 13 mos. 
BLYE, Lewis born 1793. dded 1877; Freid 
Warren 1S62, 1.S61; Emma N. 1831, 1833, 
BOARDMAN. See Shute. 
BOUTWELL, Ellen died April 20, 1856, 
aged 14 yrs 6 mos; Eller died Sept 4, 
1870, aged 18 yrs. 
BOND, Gilbert diad May 4, 1834, aged 
77 yrs; Anna (his wife) died Nov 8, 
1822, aged 60 yrs. 
BOYD, Alfred died Oct 9, 1874, aged 57 
yrs; Emma C. (dau) Clara M. (dau) 
died Sept 27, 1868, aged 1 yr 8 mos; 
Jane (dau of James and Margaret 
Boyd) died Portsmouth 1736; Rufus 
died Sept 13, 1864, aged 45 yrs; Abby 
L. (dau t't Geor,ge F. and Laura 
H. Boyd) died April IS, 1863. aged 11 
yrs 4 mos 27 dys; Henry T. (son of 
William and Ruth Boyd) died July 22, 
1849, aged 22 yrs; David (son) died Dec 
3, 1834, aged IS yrs; Betsey McClure 
(dau) died Nov 8, 1S39, aged 15 yrs; 
Fanny G. died June 9, 1810, aged 1 
yr; William (of Salem, N. H.) died 
Dec 3, 1S62, aged 81 yrs 8 mos 9 dys 
(stone erected by his daughter, 
Abby C. Moses); Ruth Clark (wife of 
William Boyd) born Weare, N. H. 
Jan 26, 1789, died Salem, N. H. April 
22, 1S7S, (stone erected by children of 
Abby C. Moses.) 
BOYES, Robert died April 21, 1768, 
aged 77 yre; Jane Clark (his wife) 
died 1730, aged 35 yrs; Margaret (dau 
of Robert and Sarah Boyes) died Oct 
8, 1775, aged 25; Samuel (son) died 
Aug 10, 1S79, aged 24 yrs; Alexander 
died Jan 16, 1829, aged 71 yrs; Susan 
(his -wife) died June 26, 1831, aged 67 



yrs; Jane (wife of Robert Boyce) died 
Nov 12, 1831, aged 37 yrs; Eliza died 
Nov 23, 1876, aged 90 yrs. (See Clark.) 
BOYNTON, John died Dec 31, 1862, aged 
52 yrs 6 mos; David died April 22, 1856, 
aged 79 yrs; Joseph (son) died April 5, 
1829, aged 25 yrs; Sarah (dau) died 
Sept 14,1819, aged 16 yrs; Charles W. 
M. (son) died Nov 12. 1819, aged 4 yrs; 
Polly (wife of David Boynton) died 
Oot 17. 1S33. aged 59 yrs; Eleanor H. 
(2d wife) died May 24, 1863, aged 70 
yrs 3 mos. 
BRADFORD, Isaac died July 6, 1892, 
aged 84 yrs 4 mos; Mercy (his wife) 
died Jan 30, ISSS, aged 79 yrs 11 mos; 
Thomas S. died Feb 27, 1.S76, aged 61 
yrs 7 mos; Andrew C. died Oct 15, 
1857, aged 77 yrs 9 mos; Jei-usha (his 
wife) died Aug 19, 1S65, aged 83 yrs 3 
mos; Charles M. died Feb 7, 1825, 
aged 4 yrs 11 mos; Sarah (Moore) died 
Aug 10, 1867, aged 41 yrs 9 mos; Har- 
riet I. died Nov 3, 1887, aged 71 yiis 
2 mois 10 dys; Lucy A. (wife of C. M. 
Roberts) died July 16, 1894, aged 39 
yrs. 

BRICKETT, Leonard died Aug 3, 1871, 
aged 68 yrs; Clarissa T. (his wife) died 
Sept 4, 1861, aged 55 yrs 8 mos 4 dys; 
Abby F. (wife of Leonard Brickett) 
died Aug 20, 1891, aged 77 yrs; infanit 
child died June 11, 1827; Mary Ann 
(dau) died Aug 5, 1832, aged 2 yrs; 
Edmund (son) died Oct 31, 1839, aged 
11 yrs; Henry T. (son) died Sept 29, 
1S34, aged 5 mos; infant child died Jan 
16, 1837; Martha (dau) died April 15, 
1849, aged 3 yrs. 

BRIGGS, George A. died Aug 14, 1849, 
ag'?d 1 yr 7 mos. 

BROWN, John N. died Oct 4, 1870, aged 
57 yrs; Eliza E. (his wife) died Jan 2S, 
1S51, aged 33 yrs; Ellen R. (his wife) 
died Jan 24. 1S67. aged 21 yrs; Annie 
died March 9, 1840. aged 65 yrs; Sarah 
(his wife) died June 12. 1818. aged 44 
yrs; Saa-ah (their dau) died March 20, 
1823, aged 24 yrs; Simon (their son) 
died Feb 12, 1803, -aged 5 mos; Mae 
Caroline (dau of G. A. and H. L. 
Brown) died Aug 22, 1854, aged 9 
mos; Rev. Jonatha.n(who was or- 
dained pastor of the east parish of 
Londonderry May, 1795, and resigned 
his pasitoral charge in October 1804) 
died January, 1838, aged 80 yrs. 

BROOKS, Elizabeth F. (wife of Gilbert 
Brooks) died Nov 10, 1858, aged 66 yrs. 

BULLAKD, C. Merton horn Jan 23, 
1S7S, died July 23. 1S80: Mary F. (wife 
of Willford A. Estey) born Dec. 17, 
1862, died May 10, 1880. 

BURBANK, George W. (son of John 
G. and Fiieelie A. Burbank, dlied July 
24. 1873, aged 16 mos Id. 

BURNHAM, Major John died 1831, 
aged 68 yrs; John (his son) died Nov 
1, 1847, aged 50 yrs; Mathaa- (wife of 
Washington Burnham) died Jan 6, 
1890, ag-ed 75 yrs 7 mos 13 dys;George 
died Jan 2, 1851, aged 48 yrs; Tenaoera 
Propositi Verum, Samuel Burnham 
died Nov 1, 1834, aged 67 yrs, gnadu- 
aited ait Dartmouth college 1795, pre- 
ceptor of the aciademy in tliistownand 
elder of the church for many years. 
That they may rest from their labors, 
and their works do follow them. 
Mary D. Burnha-m wife of Dea Sajn- 
uel Burnham died Oct 20, 1863, aged 
83 yrs. 

BUXTON, Amos died Sept 6, 1887, ag<ed 
SO yrs. 

BURNSIDE. David died Oct 10, 1757. 
aged 41 vrs. 

BUSWELL, James O. died April 8, 
1882, aged 83 yrs 9 mos 7 dys; Harriet 
Saxjton (his wife) died Mai-ch 9, 1870, 
aged 67 yrs. 

BUTTRICK. MuriT Redfield (son of 
George R. and Ann R.) died June 30, 
1846, aged 6 mos. 



BUTRICK, Danford died Sept 6, 1846, 
aged 57 yrs; Hannah B. (his wife) died 
Jan 25, 1858, ag-ed 58 yrs. 

CALDWELL, Margaret died March 24, 
1S63, aged 73 yrs; Benjamin died 
March 2, 1837, aged 74 yrs; Lydia( his 
wife) died Feb 12, 1835, aged 77 yrs; 
Ephraim died July 13, 1822, aged 29 
yrs; Margaret J. (his wife) died Nov 
18. 1873. aged 82 yrs. 

CAMPBELL, John died March 11, 1759, 
aged 34 yi-s; Mary (his wife) died Aug 
S. 1763. aged 55 yrs; Margaret (dau of i 
Thomas and Jean Campbell) died » 
Jan 3. 1748, aged 13 yrs; Jean (wife of 
Thomas Campbell) died May 19, 1756, 
aged 64 yrs. 

CARGILL, Elder David died April 3, 
1734, aged 73 yrs; Jennet (his wife) 
died Oct 5, 1745, aged 81 yrs. 

CARLTON. Moses died Dec 10, 1871, 
aged 82 yrs 5 mos; Sophia (his wife) 
died May 27. 1857, aged 42 yrs; Sophia 
(their dau) died May 11, 1857, aged 
4 mos 7 dys; Laroy (son of Amos M. 
and Anne E. Carlton) died Jan 31, 
1841, aged 2 yrs 1 mo 7 dys. 

CARR, Lucian H. (son of Moses and Al- 
mira Carr) died Oct 7, 1837, aged 11 
yrs 10 mos; William K. (son of 
Daniel and Betsey Carr) died Sept 8, 
1827, aged 3 yrs; Daniel born 1797, died 
1887; Betsey (his wife) born 1799, died 
1S85; Elizabeth R. H. (dau) born 1838, 
died 1865; Josiah (son) born 1830 died 
1865, Nathaniel P. (son) bom 1835, 
died 1874. 

CARTER, Mrs. Anna E. died Sept 5, 
1892, aged 51 yrs 8 mos 5 dys. 

CHADBOURNE, Andrew M. born 1828, 
died ISSl. 

CHAPIN, Mary (wife of Henry Chapin) 
died March 17, 1830, aged 23 yrs; Char- 
les H. (their son) died Aug 20, 1829, 
aged 5 mos 20 dys. 

CHAPMAN, John died Aug 10, 1785, 
aged 43 years. 

CHAMBERS, William died Aug 21, 1757, 
a.ged 56 years. 

CHASE, Moody M. died March 2, 1832, 
aged 30 years; John died Feb 24, 1835, 
aged 71 yrs; Hannah (his wife) died 
March 4. 1841, aged 73 yrs; Henry 
born Oct 24, 1793, died June 29, 1852; 
Betsey B. Warnes (his wife) born June 
9. 1800. died Oct 22. 1826; Mariana Page 
(his wife) born May 21. 1792. died Nov 
27. 1857; Nathaniel (son) born Dec 29, 
1823; Henry M. (son) born Aug 1. 1826, 
died Jan 5. 1863; Lizzie (dau) born Feb 
22, 1828, died June 11. 1S70; William P. 
(son) born .lune 18, 1832. 

CHEEVER, James died Feb 20, 1826, 
aged 26 yrs; William died Jan 15, 
ISIS, aged 26 years;Peter died July4,lS29 
aged 76 yrs; Elizabeth (his wife) died 
Jan 7, 1848, aged 87 yrs; Osgood died 
Dec 22. 1855. aged 66 yrs; Jane (his 
wife died Oct 14. 1859. aged 65 yrs: 
Abbie (wife of Isaac Morrison) died 
Sept 26. 1849, aged 21 yrs; Henry A. 
died Jan 10, 1S56. aged 24 yrs; Mary 
(wife of David Bassett) (See Bassett) 

CHENEY, William died Oct 25, 1850, 
aged 66 yrs; Sophia (his wife) died 
Oct 26. 1846. aged 56 yrs; William 
Oliver (their son) died Nov 1. 1817, 
aged 22 yrs; Thomas died Jan 18, 1838, 
aged 79 yrs; Hannah (his wife) died 
March 14. 1841, aged 82 yrs; Elizabeth 
Ann (dau of Thomas and Ruth Che- 
ney) died Aug 1. 1832. aged 23 mos: 
Enoch E. (son of Thomas Cheney) died 
April S. 1834. aged 19 mos. 

CHASE. Nathaniel (son of Moody M. 
and Betsy Chase) died Jan 10. 1849, 
aged 22 vrs. 

CHOATE. Nehemiah born 1787, died 
1870; Sally (his wife) born 1790, died 
1879, (see Pigeon); James C. (son) 
born 1S15. died 1840; Abby C. (dau) 
born 1817, died 1876; Dea. James died 



July 23, 1846, aged 85 yis; Abigail (his 
wife) died Aug 15, 1838. aged 74 yrs; 
William died Oct 7, 1870, aged 85 yis 
5 nios 19 dys: Mary B. (wife) died 
Dec 29, 1873, aged 82 yrs 7 mos 19 dys; 
Clarissa Pinkerton died March 25, 
1840, aged 19 yrs 3 mos 22 dys; James 
Pinkerton died Oct 3, 1817, aged 11 
mos 23 dy.s; Sarah Elizabeth died 
Jan 25, 1830, aged 16 mos 13 dys; Dea. 
Humphrey died Oct 11, 1870, aged 74 
yrs; Betsy Low (his wife) died Feb 
20, 1881, aged 84 yrs; Sarah H. died 
April 30. 1893, aged (5(J yrs 3 mos; Lyd- 
ia G. died June 1, 1846, aged 21 4 
mos 23 dys; Frank I. died July 3, 1865, 
aged 29 yrs 5 mos 19 dys; Humphrey 
died April 29. 1838. aged 85 yrs; Isaac 
P. (son of Dea. James and Abigail 
Choate) died Oct. 26. 1826, aged 28 
yrs; Abigail (dau of Dea. James and 
Abigail Choate) died April 15, 1809. 
aged 15 yrs; Dea. James died Oct 4, 
1861, aged 70 yrs 1 mo; James War- 
ren (son) died April 3, 1842,, aged 3 yrs 
8 mos; Frances (son of Dea. James 
and Abigail Choate) died Sept 26, 1826, 
aged 17 yrs; George (son) died Dec 13, 
1803, aged 3 yrs; Mary H. (wife of 
Charles Choate) born July 13, 1817, 
died July 3, 1878; Arthur L. (son of 
Charles and Mary H. Choate) died 
May 13, 1872, aged 20 yrs; Arthur 
Dewelyn (son of Charles and Mary 
H.) died April 1, 1851, aged 6 weeks; 
Adeline Alice (dau of Nathan and 
Louisa K. Choate died March 27, 1842, 
aged 3 yrs 8 mos 13 dys; Elder Wil- 
liam died Jan 4, 1835, aged 75 yrs; 
Susan A. (his wife) died April 11, 
1829, aged 64 yrs; Capt. John (Master 
of the Brig Caesar of Boston, lost 
overboard at sea) Oct 21, 1817, aged 
29 years; David (his second ofBcer 
was lost also; they were driven from 
their moorin.gs during a hurricane 
in the West Indies) Oct 21. 1817, aged 
22 yrs. 
CLARK. Alfred died Aug 15, 1861, aged 
28 yrs 10 mos; Lieut. Matthew died 
Oct 19. 1828, aged ,58 yrs; Hannah rhis 
wife) Jan 1, 1827, aged 58 yrs; Betsey 
died Aug I, 1816, aged 20 yrs; "O 
Homo si soires, quod esses et unde- 
venius, menquam gauderes, sed in 
iimni tempore fleres. Here lyeth the 
liody of the Reverend Mr. Matthew 
Clark who departed this life on the 
27th day of February Anno Domine 
1735 Aetates suae 76." Joshua A. 
diea June 26. 1891. aged 37 yrs; Eliza- 
beth died Aug 31, 1851, aged 73 yrs; 
Agnes (wife of John Clark) died 
March 1, 1835, aged 91 yrs; Sarah H. 
died March IS, 1870. aged 67 yrs 5 mos; 
Charles died Feb 14. 1864. aged 55 yrs; 
Rebecca C. died June 9. 1884. aged 84 
yrs; John died Aug 29. 1850. aged 42 
yrs; Jennette (his wife) died Feb 15, 
1876, aged .57 yrs; William died Feb 
12, 1859. aged 44 yrs 5 mos; Samuel 
died March 10. 1884. aged 85 yrs; Eliza 
Gregg (his wife) died Nov 20. 1881, 
aged 77 yrs; Mary Ann (dau) died 
July 2. 1832, aged 3 yrs; Lucindia 
(dau) died Jan 29, 1866. aged 32 yrs; 
(see Ham) Walter Stanley (son of D. 
C. and M. L. Clark) died Jan 17. 1864, 
aged 6 yi-s 11 mos; Mabel (dau) died 
Dec 11, 1865, aged 2 yrs 11 mos 11 dys; 
Joshua died Nov 9, 1859. aged 75 yrs 
7 mos; Eliza (his wife) died March 18, 
18,58, aged 58 yrs 10 mos; Samuel died 
Feb 22. 1866, aged 69 yrs 3 mos; Robert 
(son of Samuel and Ruth Clark) died 
Dec 28, 1843. aged 17 yrs 7 mos; Jesse 
P. (son) died Sept 19. 1848. aged 6 yrs 
2 mos; Deacon William D. died Dei. 
14. 1882. aged 72 yrs 5 mos; Almira E. 
(his wife) died Dec 30. 1891. aged 77 
yrs 1 mo 4 dys; Isaac R. died Feb 15, 
1891, aged 42 yrs 11 mos 13 dys; Sarah 
J. (dau of Leonard and Sophia Clark) 
.14 



WILLBT'S BOOK OF NUTFIEL3. 



died Oct 1, 1861, aged 15 yrs; Leverett 
K. (son of Leonard and Sophia Clark) 
died Oct 19. 1861, aged 5 yrs; Alfred 
(son) died Oct 24. 1861, aged 2 yrs; 
Hannah (dau) died Nov 25, 1861, aged 
9 yrs; Howard P. (son) died Dec 13, 
1861, aged 11 yrs; Moses L. (son) died 
Jan 28, 1862, aged 13 yrs; Deacon Mat- 
thew died Aug 26, 1873, aged 76 yrs; 
Jane died March 4, 1888, aged 86 yrs 
7 mos; Mary died Oct 24, 1860, aged 63 
yrs; Matthew died Nov 13, 1859, aged 
90 yrs; Jenny McMurphy (his wife) 
died Feb 15, 1854, aged 8i yrs; Mary 
(wife of Robert Clark) died June 13, 
1S30, aged 55 yrs; William (son of 
John and Nancy Clark) died April 28, 
1801. aged 17 yrs; Robert died Feb 2, 
1816, aged 44 yrs; James died Oct 13, 
1768, aged 77 yrs; Elizabeth (his wife) 
died July 9, 1732, aged 35 yrs; Mary 
(his wife) died April 19, 1762, aged 63 
yrs; Samuel P. (son of Eben and Re- 
becca Clark) died March 21, 1843, 
aged 4 yrs 10 mos;Rebecca (dau) died 
March 30, 1843, aged 7 yre 6 mos; Jen- 
net (wife of Samuel Clark) died April 
15, 1833, aged 85 yrs; Sarah (wife) died 
May 1, 1776, aged 32 yrs; Samuel died 
Aug 9, 1790, aged 52 yrs 1 mo; Wil- 
liam died Feb 23, 1807, agea 20 yrs; 
John died May 31, 1806, aged 69 yrs; 
Robert d ed April 20, 1775, aged 65 yrs; 
Letitia (his wife) died June 16, 1784, 
aged 76 yrs; Lettia died Jan 3, 1848, 
aged 76 yrs; David died Aug 19, 1821, 
aged 54 yrs; Jane (wife of Alexander 
Clark) died Sept 25, 1778, aged 67 yrs; 
Mary Ann (dau of Samuel and Eliza 
Clark) died July 3, 1832, aged 2 yrs 8 
mos; Sophia (dau of Capt. John and 
Sarah T. Clark) died at Ypsilanti, 
Mich., Jan 18, 1844, aged 31 yrs; 
Nancy M. (dau) died April 10, 1839, 
aged 27 yrs; Capt. John died Jan 6, 
1851, aged 76 yrs; Sarah T. (wife) died 
July 25. 1818. aged 42 yrs; Mary T. 
(wife) died Nov 16, 1822, aged 33 yrs; 
Mary C. (wife) died Sept 25, 1828, aged 
44 yrs; John Newton (son) died Sept 
8. 1815. aged 3 mos; Henry died June 
23, 1803, aged 13 dys; Matthew died 
Jan 22, 1805, aged 72 yrs; Margaret 
(his wife) died Dec 15, 1805, aged 73 
yrs. 

CLEMENT. Mary H. (wife of Peter 
Whittemore) born Nov 12, 1812, died 
April 22, 1890; (See Whittemore). 
Col. David died Oct 20. 1869. aged 76 
yrs; Abigail (his wife) died Jan 1. 
1869. aged 75 yrs; Louisa A. died Jan 
5. 1867, aged 39 yrs. 

CLENDENNEN. Benjamin died Jan 
20. 1863. aged 78 yrs; Sally (his wife) 
died July 5. 1853. aged 69 yrs; John H. 
(their son) born Sept 6. 1821. died 
Sept 26. 1827; John H. died Oct 10. 

1837, aged 63 yrs; Betsey (his wife) 
died Nov 10, 1849, aged 72 yrs; Wil- 
liam died Jan 26, 1851, aged 75 yrs 6 
mos; Mary (his wife) died Dec 29, 
1851, aged aged 72 yrs; Susanna (wife 

of Whitney) born May 14. 1833. 

married Aug 23. 18.57. died Feb 15, 
1881. (Fine stone inscription with a 
cross: In hoc signo vinces). 

CLYDE. John died Aug 26. 1844. aged 71 
yrs; Mehetable (his wife) died May 23. 

1838. aged 62 yrs. 

COCHRAN. William died April 22, 
1747, aged 12 yrs; Abigail died Jan 8. 
1762, aged 65 yrs; Lieut. Robert died 
June 8. 1752. aged 48 yrs; Elizabeth 
died April 5. 1756. aged 31 yrs (wife 
of John Cochran); Dinah died Aug 11. 
1819. a.ged 84 yrs; Hannah (dau of 
Jonathan and Elizabeth) died Aug 8. 
1779. aged lyr 2 mos 19 dys; Ann (Mrs.) 
died April 24. 1786. aged 55 yrs; John 
died Aug 26. 1777. aged 74 yrs; John 
and Peter (sons of Peter and Jean 
Cochran) died Jan 24, 1724, aged 31 
days; Peter died Sept. 1, 1733, aged C 



3^9 

mos; John died March 10, 1747. aged 
29 yrs; James died Feb 17, 1795, aged 85 
yrs; John died Feb 17, 1795, aged 66 
yrs; William died June 14, 1774, aged 
69 yrs; Elizabeth (his wife) dau of 
Elder James Reid) died April 1, 1756, 
aged 30 yrs; Mary (his wife) (dau of 
Moses Barnard) died Feb 12, 1794, 
aged 60 yrs; Christine (Mrs) died 
April 14, 1734, aged 33 yrs; Robert died 
Jan 17, 1734, aged 45 yrs; Peter died 
Dec 25, 1722, aged 96 yrs; Janet (dau) 
died April 6. 1760, aged 85 yrs; An- 
drew (son of Peter and Jean Coch- 
ran) died Aug 2, 1750, aged 7 yrs; Rob- 
ert (son) died Jan 1, 1758, aged — 
COFFIN, Jacob died Dec 3, 1808, aged 
5 mos (son of Jacob and Betsey Cof- 
fin); George Sullivan (son of Jacob and 
Betsey Coffin) died Dec 13, 1808, aged 
7 yrs. 
COGSWELL, Joseph died Nov 22, 1843, 
86 yrs; Abigail (his wife) died April 
11, 1825, aged 62 yrs; Mary (their dau) 
died Feb 26. 1844. aged 47 yrs; Bet- 
sey (wife of John Cogswell of Bosca- 
wen and dau of Dea James and Abi- 
gail Choate) died Sept 23. 1839, aged 
50 yrs; John died May 21, 1856, aged 
74 yrs 10 mos; Mary (his wife) died 
April 5, 1823, aged 29 yrs; Betsey (his 
wife) died Sept 23, 1839. aged 50 yrs; 
Mary Parsons (dau) died July 11, 1849, 
aged 27 yrs; Abigail (wife of Dea. 
James Choate) died Aug 9, 1855, aged 
60 yrs. 
COLBY, Jesse H. died Nov 23, 1826, 
aged 20 yrs 8 mos; George Edward 
(son of George W. and Harriet N. 
Colby) died Sept 11. 1845. aged 5 mos 
9 dys; Infant child died June 1. 1843; 
Betsey died Aug 6. 1814. aged 21 yrs; 
Isaac Jr. died July 9. 1833. aged 32 yrs; 
Sophronia (dau of Isaac and Hannah 
Colby) died June 10. 1830. aged 6 mos; 
Isaac died Nov 30. 1866. aged 59 yrs 6 
mos; Lucy A. (his wife) died Sept 5, 
1892, aged 80 yrs 7 mos; Alonzo born 
Oct 2, 1833, died Nov 6, 1875; Sophronia 
(wife of Leonard Clark) died March 
16. 1886. aged 74 yrs. 
COLLINS. Nancy died Jan 19. 1881, 

aged 79 yrs. 
COTTON. Hannah (wife of Nathaniel 
Cotton and dau of Joseph and Sally 
Eastman of Deerfleld, N. H.) died 
April 15, 1838, aged 44 years. 
COl^CH. Jacob S. born July 28, 1828, 
died Sept 18, 1892; Catherine B. Cool- 
idge (his wife) born April 20, 1830, died 
April 9, 1S94; Charles C. (son) born 
Aug 6. 1863. died Aug 9, 1863. 
COX. Mrs. Eleanor died Oct 2. 1749. 
aged 73 yrs; Mary (dau of Charles and 
Mary Cox) died — 
CRAIG. Jean (dau of William and Jean 
Craig of Chester) died Oct 6. 1745, 
aged 16 yrs; Hannah died March 18, 
1847, ageci 81 yrs; Grisell (wife of Alex- 
ander Craig) died June 8, 1756. aged 
48 yrs; Ellen (wife of Patrick Tracy) 
died March 2. 1856. aged 71 yrs; David 
died Feb 2. 1747. aged 58 yrs. 
CRISTY. Jesse died Aug 8. 1739. aged 
67 yrs; Mary (his wife) died Dec 24, 
1776, aged 79 yrs; Peter died Jan 11, 
1753. aged 43 yrs; Thomas died June 30, 
1780. aged 92 yrs; Martha (his wife) 
died Dec 11. 1780. aged 46 yrs; Sarah 
(his wife) died Aug 28. 17(53. aged 39 
yrs; Rebekah (dau) died Jan 1. 1767, 
aged — 
CROSS, Mary (wife of Oilman Cross) 
died May 19, 1830, aged 29 yrs John 
died Dec 11. 1825. aged 81 yrs; Lucy 
(his wife) died Sept 1. 181S. aged 78 
yrs; John died Sept 19. 1866. aged 69 
yrs 2 mos: Rebecca O. (his w<ife) died 
Feb 25. 1881. aged 63 yrs 18 dys; Eliza 
Chis wife) died Dec 28, 1847, aged 50 
yrs 9 mos; Abner died Aug 8, 1823, 
aged 45 yrs. 



54° 



WtLLET'S BOOK OP NUTFIELD. 



CROCKER, Elizabeth (see Palmer); 
Marg-aret (wife of Elder JohnCrocker) 
died March 11, 1843, ag-ed 79 yrs; Elder 
John died July 15, 1814, aged 54 yrs; 
Marg-aret (dau) died Dec IS, 1810, aged 
2 jTs; Lydia (dau) died March 3, 1804, 
aged 8 yrs. 

CROMBIE, Rufus C. died March 1874, 
ag«d 24 yrs 3 nios; Mai-y Adams (dau) 
dfed April 17,1894, aged 24 dys; Rebecca 

' (wife of William Crombie of Boston) 
and dau of Archibald Clendennen) 
died May 14, 1752, aged 30 yrs; Robert 
(son of William and Rebecca Crom- 
bie) died June 25. 1752, ag«d 1 mo Idy ; 
John died in Dublin Nov 9, 1811. ag-ed 
84 yrs; Rebecca (his wiife) died Dec 21, 
1792, aged 57 yrs; Huldah (dau) died 
Jan 10, 1793. aged 25 yrs Jane (dau) died 
Sept 29, 1787. aged 16 yrs; John died 
Sept 25, 1772, aged 75 yrs; Jane (his 
wife) died Aug 8, 1772, aged 76 yrs; Dr. 
James (noted physician and surgeon 
in this 'town and Francisto-wn) died 
Pab 4, 1853, aged 78 yrs; Joanna Jones 
(his -wife) died March 10, 1S51, aged 
72 yrs; Joanna Jones (see Dr. Wood); 
Dr. James H. born Temple. N. H., 
Sept 2, 1813, (noted physician and sur- 
geoin) died Derry, N. H., June 30, 1884; 
Sarah (wiife) born FrancesStown April 
13, 1820, died Derry, N. H.. Feb 8. 1SS8; 
Benjamin Jones (son Dr. James and 
Joanna Crombie) died Temple April 1, 
1804, aged 4 yi-s; William Clark (son) 
died Feb 8, 1805, aged 14 mos. 

CUMMINaS. Anne (wife of Dr. Alexan- 
der Cummings celebrated physician 
erf this town) died Nov 16, 1770, aged 
86 yrs; Fi-iances Davidson relict of the 
lehe Reverend William Davidson em- 
'inemt divine of Londonderry) died 
Sept 3, 1790, aged 86 yrs, (she -w-as dau 
of Dr. Alexander and Anne Ctim- 
mings.) 
The memory of the just is blessed. 
These two inscriptions are on a large 

horizontal slab of dark stone. 

CUNNINGHAM, William died March 1, 
1777, aged 34 yi%s; Jeanne-tte (wife of 
A/rOhibald Cunningham) died March 1, 
1791, aged 90 yrs; Archibald died Sept 
8, 1755, aged 41 yrs; Mary C. died Aug 
13, 1866, aged 57 yrs; Archibald died 
Dec 25, 1839, aged 67 yrs; Jane (his 

. wife) died April 8, 1852, aged 76 yrs; 
WiUliam born July 10, 1S05, died May 
10,1881; EMza J. Harper (his-vvife)born 
Julv 3, 1804, died Sept 3. 1.889; William 
H. born Dec 3, 1838, died May 10, 1.882; 
(Eliza J. Choate born Sept 26. 1824. 
died Dec 3, 1892); Jessie D. Rametti 
(wife of John D. Cunningham) born 
Nov 20, 1852, died Oct 4, 1893; Langdon 
born Oct 4. 1893, dlied Oct 4. 1893. 

CURRIER, Mai-y died July 10, 1844, 
aged 71 yi-s; Saraih Craig died April 

I, 1847. aged 81 yrs; David Craig died 
Jan 4, 1860, aged 72 yrs; Mary Craig 
dted Miardh 1, 1862, aged 76 yrs; (The 
above four names are all on one 
s*one;) David (father) no dates. 

CUTTER, Rosa E. born June 15, 1849, 
died Aug 10, 1875; Mrs. Elizaeth B. 
born June 30, 1807, died May 16. 1874. 

CUTTING, Susan Julia (wife of Lewis 
Cutting) died Sept 25, 1831, aged 24 yrs. 

DALTON, Michael Strafford died April 

II, 1783, aged 38 yrs; Hannah (his wife) 
died June 23, 1842, aged 88 vrs. 

DANFORTH, Capt. William died July 
21, 1804, aged 47 yrs; Lucy (his wife) 
died Dec 25, 1801, aged 42 yrs; David 
(son of John and Betsey Daniforth 
aind graindso.n of William Greggs) died 
Sept 24, 1792, aigie d2 yrs 2 i-nos Simeon 
died Julv 27, 1846, aged 63 yrs. 

DAVIDSON, Thomas died June 29, 1827, 
agied 73 yrs; Margaret died Nov 13, 
1827, aged 65 yrs; Martha died Feb 14, 
1869, aged 92 yrs; Here lies buried the 
body of Rev. William "who died Feb 



15, 1797, in the 77th year of his age and 
the 51ist year of his ministi-y; Frances 4 
(Mb wife) (see Cumming's) (see Nes- 
milth). 

DAVIS, G. W. (no dates); Ann Augusta 
(dau of Charles and Rachel F. Davis) 
died Oct 31, 1853, aged 6 yrs 5 mos 22 
dys; Rachel F. (wife of Charles Davis) 
born May 20, 1817, died July 25, 1890. 

DERBY, Gen. Elias Hasket born in 
Salem, Mass., 10th of January, 1766, 
removed to Londonderry December, 
1815, died 16th of September, 1826, in 
'the 61st year of his age, "greatly re- 
spected for his talents and extensive 
information and beloved for his gen- 
erosity, benevolence, hospitality and 
public spirit." 

DAT. Emily Haskell (wife of Rev. P. B. 
Day) died Nov 25. 1850. aged 37 yrs; 
Dea. Daniel J. died Jan 14, 1878, aged 
73 yrs 9 mos; Lucy (his wife) died 
March 25, 1838, aged 39 yrs; Sally (his 
wife) died Jan 25, 1840. aged 36 yrs; 
Lucy Elizabeth (dau) died July 29. 
1857. aged 10 yrs 6 mos; Lizzie (dau of 
Charles H. and Martha Day) died 
March 7, 1.S70, aged 3 yrs 7 mos; Little 
died Oct 21, 1845, aged 79 yrs; Sally 
(his wife) died May 21, 1815, aged 48 
yrs; Margaret R. (his wife) died May 
17, 1821, aged 44 yrs; Leonard L. died 
Jan 28, 1875, aged 83 yrs 3 mos; Sarah 
N. (his wife) died Feb 10. 1847. aged 53 
yrs 10 mos; Sarah Jaques (only child) 
died Oct 14, 1845, aged 26 yrs 7 mos 21 
dys. 

DICKEY, Matthew died Oct 3, 1802, 
ag'ed 74 yrs; Janet (his wife) died July 
12, 1808, aged 75 yrs; Samuel died Jan 
8, 1849, aged 75 yrs; Sophia Stark (his 
wife and dau of Gen. John Stark) died 
June 18. 1870, aged 88 yrs 5 mos; David 
W. died Nov 19, 1854, aged 43 yrs 11 
mos; Harrison T. (son of D. W. and 
Sarah A. Dickey) died March 24. 1842. 
aged 1 vr 1 mo 18 dys; Margaret Ann 
(dau) died Dec 5, 1854, aged 16 yrs 10 
mos; Horace G. (son) died Nov 10. 
1855, aged 12 yrs 6 mos; Thomas (son 
of Adam Dickey) died Aug 29, 1788, 
aged 23 yrs; Margaret (wife of John 
Dickey) died Feb 16, 1742. aged 43 yrs. 

DICKINSON. Stephenson died May 25. 
1842. aged 73 yrs; Susan (his wife) died 
March 19, 1853, aged 74 yrs. 

DINSMOOR, Rachel (wife of James 
Dinsmoor) died May 9, 1790, ag-ed 30 
yrs; John T. G. died Nov 9. 1866, aged 
66 yrs 8 mos; Mehitabel (his -nlfe) died 
Feb 8, 1872. aged 68 yrs; Cadford Mil- 
Ion died April 21. 1806. aged 29 yrs; Su- 
sanna (his wife) died July 16, 1865, 
aged 84 yrs; David died Jan 31, 1776, 
aged 60 yrs; Elizabeth (his wife) died: 
Samuel died Nov 2, 1753, aged 21 yrs; 
Lieut. Robert died Oct 14. 1751. aged 
58 yrs; Margaret (his wife) died June 
2, 1752, aged 61 yrs; John Esq. died 
April 15. 1814, aged 55 yrs; Susanna 
(his wife) died Oct 27, 1807, aged 46 yrs. 

DODGE, David died Oct 10, 1763, aged 
42 yrs; Ednah died July 8, 1855, aged 
84 yrs. 

DOLE. Miss Eunice late of South 
Hampton born Sept 29, 1774. died Nov 
14, 1833; Betsey (wife of Capt. Moses 
Holt) born April 29. 1780, died March 
7. 1847. 

DORR. Hiram died Aug 19. 1865. aged 
66 yrs 9 mos; Mary (his wife) died 
March 15. 1883. aged 84 yrs 5 mos 3 dys; 
-Belinda S. (dau) died Oct 5. 1848, aged 
19 yrs; Martha E. (dau) died Sept 20. 
1848. aged 17 yrs; James J. died Sept 
10, 1874, aged 34 yrs; Martha Gilmore 
died March 18, 1883, aged 79 yrs 10 mos; 
Mary A. died Feb 26, 1887, aged 46 yrs 
6 mos. 

DUNLOP. Martha H. (wife of Lieut. 
John Dunlop) died May 5. 18.32, aged 
36 yrs. 

DUSTIN, Caleb died Aug 14, 1845, aged 



77 yrs; Susannah (his wife) died Julie 
S, 1854, aged 82 yrs; Eliza (wife of the 
Rev. Caleb Dustin) died Jan 30, 1863, 
ag-ed 66 yrs 10 mos. 

EASTMAN, Benjamin F. born Feb 13, 
1830, died Nov 19, 1887; Kate Walton 
(dau) died Aug 31, 1856, aged 7 mos Vi 
dys; Benjamin died March 18, 1859, 
aged 57 yrs; Sophia Symms (his wife) 
died Dec 13, 1880, aged 79 yrs; George 
Warren died Aug 8, 1835, aged 6 mos 
25 dys; Charles Prescott died April 16, 
1836, aged 3 yrs 1 mo; Sophia Louisa 
(wife of S. H. Quincy) died Sept 11, 
1855, aged 25 yrs 6 mos; Josephine 
Prescott (wife of C. E. Bradford) died 
Dec 7, 1874, aged 38 yrs 6 mos; Charles 
Emerson Bradford born in Turner, 
Me., Oct 14, 1830, died Peabody, Mass., 
Jan 22, 1878, soldier, teacher in pub- 
lie schools ISVo years; Infant (child of 
Timothy Y. and Abigail Eastman) 
died April 16. 1833, aged. 

EATON. Berneretta J. (dau of James 
H. and Hannah E. Eaton) died Oct 14, 
1885, aged 13 vrs 10 mos 2 dys. 

EAYERS, Susannah Tolford (wife of 
William Eayers) died July 28, 1758, 
aged 22 yrs; Rebecca (wife of William 
Eayers) died Sept 15, 1792, aged 48 yrs; 
William died Nov 12, 1760, aged 60 yrs. 

EELS. Mary Ann Dweley (dau of Jos- 
eph and Sarah B. Eels) died April 10. 
1842. aged 18 mos. 

ELA. Capt. Clark died Dec 31. 1832. aged 
52 yrs; Mary (dau of Dea Clark and 
Mary Ela) died April 13, 18.58, aged 27 
yrs 10 mos; John W. (their son) died 
Dec 21, 1820, aged 12 mos; Harriet M. 
(wife of William G. Ela) died March 1. 

1868, aged 40 yrs; Dea William died 
June 6. 1865, aged 82 yrs 5 mos; Mary 
(his wife) died Oct 20, 1876. aged 86 yrs 
7 mos 3 dys; George died Aug 15, 1868, 
aged 49 yrs; Sarah Ann (his wife) 
born Jan 29, 1826. died April 25. 1885, 
David died Feb 19. 1822. aged 63 yrs; 
Nancy (his wife, dau of Dea Samuel 
and Sarah Fisher) died Feb 19, 1837, 
aged 90 yrs; John died Jan 4, 1811, 
aged 48 yrs; Sarah (his wife) died 
April 1, 1816, aged 65 yrs. 

EMERSON. Agnes (wife of Richard 
Emerson) died July 29. 1783. aged 28 
yrs (she was dau of William Gregg). 

EMERY. William died Dec 22. 

1869, aged 20 yrs; Mary E. 
(dau of Albert G. and Abi- 
gail R. Emery) died Nov 9, 1850, aged 
16 yrs 5 dys; Clara A. (dau) died Feb 
22, 1850, aged 10 yrs 4 mos; William 
born May 2, 1808, died April 9, 1884; 
Florienda (his wife) born Aug 20, 
1809, died April 9, 1884; Edward L. 
born Dec 13, 1838, died Nov 4, 1878; 
Helen A. Nichols (his wife) born Jan 
27, 1844, died Dec' 15. 1883; Eliza Nich- 
ols (dau of Edward L. and Helen A. 
Emery) died Sept 13, 1872, aged 3 mos; 
Josie (dau of Daniel M. and Sylvia 
M.) died Oct 31, 1861, aged 1 yr 2 mos 

9 dys;Daniel died March 27, 1883, aged 
52 yrs 10 mos; Sylvia M. died Jan 8, 
1879, aged 38 yrs 7 mos 10 dys; Joseph 
P. died July 5, 1860, aged 58 yrs 7 mos; 
Eliza P. (wife of John Bean) died Jan 
27, 1886, aged 81 yrs 15 dys, 

ESTEY, Edward P. died Aug 26, 1888, 
aged 68 yrs 2 mos 12 dys; Lydia C. 
Hemphill (his wife) died June 26, 1878, 
aged 46 yrs 8 mos; Mary F. Bullard 
(wife of Willford A. Estey) born Dec 
17, 1862, died May 10, 1880; Sally (wife 
of John Estey) died Dec 28, 1851, aged 
71 yrs 6 mos 18 dys. 

EVANS, Bathsheba (wife of Enoch 
Evans) died June 27, 1853, aged 55 yrs; 
Elias Smith (son of Elias and Mahala 
Aevans(died June 26. 1837. aged 53 yrs 

10 mos; Charles Sullivan (son of Elias 
and Mahala Aevans) died Sept 11, 
1839, aged 21 mos 9 dys; Mary M, (dau 
of Abram and Mary Evan.s) died Jan 



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17 1863, aged 5 yrs 4 mos 23 <3ys; Ann 
Augusta (dau of James and Try- 
phena Evans) died Aug 25, 1874, aged 
30 yrs; Our Baby (no dates). 
EWINS. Agnes (wife of James Ewms) 
died Jan 6. 1742, aged 37 yrs; Agnes 
(dau of James and Agnes Ewins) died 
Jan 25, 1782. aged 47 yrs 1 mo 3 dys; 
James died June 26, 1781, aged 70 yrs 

10 mos. . .V,,, 

FARRAR. Dr. Geovge (emment_ phy- 
sieian of ttiis town) died Sept la. 185S. 
aged SO vrs; Hannah Cochran (his 
w.te) died Dec 16, 1S57, aged 67 yre: 
Sarah Prentice (his wife and dau of 
Hon John Prentice) died Jan 29, 1822, 
a=ed 37 yrs; George Humphrey (son 
o?Dr George and Sarah Farrar) died 
April 11, 1816, aged 8 mos; Lucy (wife 
of Humphrey Farrar of Colebrook) 
died Jan 6, 1S32, aged S6 yrs 
FIELD. Timothy Davis born 1802. died 
188-^ ■ Mary Douglass Gooding (his 
wife) born 1800, died 1S81. 
FISHER Martha (dau of Dea. Samuel 
Fisher) died June 21. 1837, aged 6!) yre; * 
Agnes (wife of Dea Samuel Fisher) 
died April 17, 1747. aged 21 yrs. 
FITZ Mary died May 16, 1863, aged 81 
yrs-' Currier died Jan 20, 1841. aged 77 
vrs; Sarah (his wife) died June 10, 
1846. aged 81 yrs; George (A. M.) (then- 
son) died Winnesborough, S. C. 
March 29, 1826, aged 25 yrs. 
FLOYD Daniel born March 29. liS.. 
died Nov 19, 1S67; Esther born Jan 28, 
1778, died April 9, 1874; Sewell died Jan 
5 1883, aged 65 yrs 5 mos 17 dys; Sarah 
J. (his wife) died May 3, 1884, aged 59 
yrs 2 mos 29 dys. 
FOLLANSBEE. Willard D. (son of 
Willard S. and Rebecca Follansbee) 
died April 25. 1S39. aged 16 yrs 9 dys. 
FOLSOM, Hon. John died Aug 9, 1850, 
aged 74 yrs 5 mos; Dorothea (his wife) 
died Dec 5, 1846, aged 46 yrs 8 mos; 
Mary (dau. and wife of George 
Edwin Hodge) born Dec 4, 
1S36. died Nov 12, 1869^ 

Nancy (wife of John Folsom. Jr.) died 
Aug 6. 1869. aged 49 yrs 6 mos; Doro- 
thy J. (dau of John and Nancy Fol- 
som) died Sept 11, 1857, aged 4 wks; 
(ieo.r<'e H. (son of John and Nancy 
Folsom) died Feb 16, 1853, aged 2 yrs 

FORD . Dorcas Sherburne (wife ot 
James Gibson and Caleb S. Ford) died 
oot 29, 1864, aged 81 yrs 9 mos; Susan 
P (dau of Caleb S. and Dorcas S 
Ford) died Dec 26. 1865, aged 41 yrs. 
FORGER. Katherine (dau of Henry 
and Katherine Forger) died Oct. 8. 
1864, aged 5 yrs 3 mos; Dean H. (son) 
died Oct 7, 1864, aged 4 yrs. 
FOSS Daniel (son of John T. and 
Elizabeth Foss) died July 20, 1843, 
aged 23 yrs; Edwin (son) died Sept 29, 
1843, aged 23 dys. 
FRENCH, Samuel of Deerfield. N. H.. 

died May 23, 1813, aged 26 yrs. 
FITLTON. James of Chester, died 
Sept 19. 1754. aged 48 yrs; Eliza- 
beth (wife of Robert Fulton, her in- 
fant in her arms and two children 
buried at her side) died March 3. 1763. 
aged 31 yrs. 
FPRNISS. Hartman K. (with a monu- 
ment of fine churchly design of hope 
and the resurrection) born in Ports- 
mouth, N. H., connected with the 
Rogers family of this town, died in 
New York Novl8,lS78. "Simply to thy 
Cross I cling." 
GALE. Charles C. P. died March 1. 1838. 
at Boston, aged 38 yrs; Martha (his 
wife) died at Exeter Sept 6. 1863. aged 
59 yrs 7 mos; Helen McGregor (their 
dau) died at Exeter. N. H.. Oct 9, 1840. 
aged 2 yrs 9 mos; Charles W. (son) 
born May 9. 1835. died Feb 1, 1865; 
Mary H. (dau) born Jan 28, 1833. died 
July 22, 1865, 



GAULT, Benjamin died May 6, 1824, 
aged 39 yrs; Martha, died Feb 20, 1851, 
aged 64 vrs; Henry Allen (son of 
Hugh andNancy Gault) died Oct 23. 
1842 aged 29 yrs; Hugh died Sept 5, 
1833', aged 50 yrs; Nancy (his wife) 
•died Aug 26, 1869, aged 82 yrs. 
GEORGE. Harriette E, (wife of Lucian 
George and dau of Joseph and Jane 
Morrison) died Aug 2, 1851, aged 25 
yrs 7 mos; Willie H. (son of O. B. and 
Annie W. George) died Dec 30, 1886, 
aged 16 yrs 8 mos 15 dys. 
GERAH, Sarah Melinda (dau of James 
and Elizabeh Gerah) died Dec 5, 1852, 
aged 10 mos 5 dys. 
GILLMORE. John died Dec 26. Ii54. 
aged 9 yrs; William (son of Robert 
Gillmore) died Feb 18. 1831. aged 79 
yrs; William (son of John Gillmore) 
died March 7. 1747. aged 26 yrs; Will- 
iam died May 9. 1753, aged 68 yrs; 
James, (megible); Robert died Sept 
3 17S'J aged 83 yrs; Elizabeth, died 
Sept 1. 1783, aged 70 yrs; Mrs. Ann 
(wife of James Gillmore) died Sept 24. 
1755. aged 22 yrs. (She was dau of 
Jesse and Mary Cristy); Martha died 
May IS. 1841, aged 79 yrs 10 mos (see 
Dorr). 
GIVEN, Robert died July IS, 1841, aged 

74 yrs. 
GOODRICH. Dea. John died Nov 22. 
1828, aged 62 yrs; Mary (his wife) (and 
wife of William Dalton) died April 28, 
1860, age.- 89 yrs; Sophia died 1811, 
aged 11 yrs; Theodore died Jan 1813, 
aged 17 yrs; Hazen died June 11. 1824. 
aged 22 yrs. ^ ■, r^ 

GOODWIN. Charles W. (son of I. G. 
and Lizzie M. Goodwin) died Oct 1, 
1865. aged 1 yr 6 mos 17 dys. 
GORDON. William died April 8, 1753. 

aged 33 yrs. 
GOSS, Jane McMurphy (wife of Capt. 
Allen Goss) died April 18, 1830, aged 
40 yrs. 
GREENE. David G. born March 7. 1823. 
died Aug 10. 18S2; Annie born Feb 14. 
1865. died Aug 20. 1868; Augustus W. 
born Sept 4, 1866, died Aug 16, 1868. 
GREEN, Moses died July. 1826, aged 

66 yrs. 
GREGG. Hon. David died May 15, 1866,, 
aged 78 vrs; Mai'tha Hurit (his wife) 
born Northfield. Mass.. April 28. 179S, 
died in Derry Feb 9, 1843; Dydia Sul- 
livan (his wife) born Exeter. N. H., 
Oct 4, 1806, died in Derry June 9, 1849; 
George Sullivan (son) died Sept 28, 
1854 aged 6 yrs 4 mos; Edw'ard Ii-ying 
(son) died Sept 19, 1854, aged 6 yrs 
4 mo«; Charlotte (diau of Hon. David 
and Charlottte Butler Gregg, died Feb 
16 1859, aged 4 yrs; John born Dec 2. 
1813. died June 30. 1873; AnMe May 
(dau of J. and H. J. Gregg) born May 
19 1859. died May 2. 1860; Joseph born 
July 22, 1779, died Aug l-», 1853; Lucy 
W. (his wife) born Oct 16. 1780. died 
Feb 16. 1860; John died Jan 30. 1836, 
aged 65 yrs; Mrs. Mary died Jan 17. 
18''3 aged 48 vrs; Blbridge G. died 
March 12. 1822. aged 9 yrs; Sylvester 
died Aug 12. 1824. aged 24 yrs: Paul- 
ina Merritt died at Dynm Jan 29. ISS-i, 
laged 25 yrs; Stephen died March I'", 
1846, aged 42 yrs; (Monument with 
last six names erected by Louisa 
Gregg in 1847) Ebenezer died 
Nov 14. 1838. aged 70 yrs; Ann (his 
wife) died July 17. 1837, aged 62 yrs; 
Hannah Jane (dau) died July 2, 1832, 
laged 23 vrs; Margaret C. (dau) died 
Nov 22. 1831, laged 20 yrs; Mary Ann 
(dau) died Oct 17, 1827, aged 21 yrs; 
Beitty (dau of Capt. Ebenezer and 
Betsey Gregg) died Aug 17. 1800. aged 
5 yrs; Barbara (wife of Col. William 
Gregg) died July 31. 1766. aged 33 vrs; 
M-argaret (wife <^f James Gregg) died 
Julv 11. 1788. aged 56 yrs; Janet (dau) 
(lied Feb 20, 17S4, aged 22 yrs U mos 



541 



17 dys; William died May 10. 1752, aged 
57 yrs; JonaWhan (son of James and 
M'ary Gregg) died July 2. 1789, aged 
32 yrs; Lieut Samuel died Oct 1. 1778, 
aged 73 yrs; James (son of James and 
Miargaret Gregg) died Nov 17. 1789, 
aged 26 yrs 5 mos 21 dys; Dea James 
died Feb 27, 1856, aged 82 yrs; Anna 
(wife of Lieut. James Gregg) died Oct 
3. 1804. aged 25 yrs; Oapt. James died 
March 10, 1858, aged 85 yrs; Betty (dau 
of James and Mary Gregg) died Aug 
14, 1788, aged 27 yrs; Major Joseph died 
Mardh 6, 1803, aged 64 yrs; Susanna 
(his wife) died July 30, 1827, aged 
82 yi-s; Nathaniel (son) died May 6, 
1801, laged 24 yrs; Susanna (dau) died 
May 16, 1786, aged 16 yrs; Barbara 
(dau) died aged 2 mos; Oapt. John died 
Fe'b 28. 1789. aged 87 yrs; Agnes (his 
wife) died Oct 7, 1743. aged 36 yrs; 
Rosanna (his wife) died April 14, 1789, 
aged 67 yrs; (These three were on a 
horizontal slab together) The follow- 
ing on marble upright stone within a 
wooden fence paSnlted white and the 
gmve amid blooming shrubs: Lucy 
(dau of Joseph and Lucy Gregg) died 
Oct 4. 1843. aged 22 yrs; "So fades a 
summer cloud away. So sinks the gale 
when storms are o'er, So gently shuts 
the shore." 
(JRIFFIN, RufuiS born Feb. 25. 1831, 
died June 10, 1861: Harriet D. Major 
(his wife) bwn Feb 13, 1826, died Aug 
21, 1886: Fidelia (wife of Oscar C. 
Griffin) born Dec 17, 1840. died Jan 26, 
1894. 
GRINNELL, Harry (son of W. H. and 
M. C. Grinnell) d'.ed Nov 28, 1873, aged 
7 mos. 
HOAKE, Fred C. died Nov 11, 1894, 

aged 45 yrs 1 mo 6 dys. 
HALE. Dolly M. died April 16, 1852, 
aged 33 yrs; Mary died Oct 29, 1855, 
aged 24 yrs; Leonard died May 4, 1840, 
aged 50 yrs; Elizabeth (wife) March 
20, 1880, aged 90 yrs. (See Miltimore.) 
HALTj. Timothy (of Keene. N. H.) died 
in Derry, N. H. Aug 3. 1853, aged 72 
yrs; Mrs. Eliza Macgregor died in 
Princeton, Mass.. Aug 8, 1882, aged 
88 vrs; Mrs. Maria Macgregor Cogs- 
well died March 25, 1883, aged 90 yrs 
6 mos. (Iroai fence around these - 
three stones.) Joseph H. died April 
9, 1875, aged 75 yrs; Hannah (his 
wife) died Jan 8. 1874, aged 65 yrs: 
Robert died Sept 28, 1842, aged 57 
yrs 10 mos: Nancy Macgregor (his 
wife) died Nov 9, 1868, aged 79 yrs; 
William James born May 20, 1832, 
died Oct 9. 1882: Mary Ann Macgreg- 
or died Oct 10, ISllj. aged 18 mos; in- 
fant (dau) d'led Jan 31, 1816; Nancy 
Jane Ba.rr (dau) died Aug 18, 182o, 
aged 4 yrs 5 mos: George Macgregor 
(son) died in Texas Feb 19. 1858, aged 
28 vrs 10 mos. 
HAM. Alice Marion (dau of William 
and Eliza A. Ham) died Oct 6, 1878, 
aged 7 yrs 4 mos. 
HANSON. M. Alice died June 20, 1870, 

aged 75 yrs 6 mos. 
HARDY, Marv W. (wife of Wilham G. 
Hardv) died May 22. 1860. aged 43 yrs: 
Mary" A. (dau) died Sept 28, 1853, aged 
6 yrs. , 

HARPER. Luo'.en bo<rn Sept 22, 180(, 
died Feb 7. 1865: Eliza J. (wife of Wil- 
liam Cunningham. 
HARTSHORN, Hannah J . (wife of 
Lowell S. Hartshorn) died Jan 26, 
1888, aged 41 yrs 1 mo 7 dys. 
HJASEUTON. Diantha died Feib 10, 

1887, aged 63 yrs. 
HATCH. Reuben died Sept 20, 1854, 

aged 52 yrs. 
HAYES, Lyman died April 21, 1865, 
aged 55 vrs 2 mos 15 dys;Betsey (his 
wife) died Nov 29, 1887, aged 82 yrs; 
Dr Henry, physician and surgeon, 
born Perth, Scotland, June 17, 1804, 



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WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



died at Memphis, Tenn., wiiile acting 
as surgeon in tlie United States army 
Sept 4, 1864; Anna Gibb (ills wife) 
born in Banff, Scotiand, April 12, 
1812, died in Derry Oct 12, 1863; Hat- 
tie B. H. (tlieir dau and wife of N. H. 
Brown) born Feb 5, 1839, died March 
11. 1S66; (Annabel Brown dau of Na- 
thanial H. and Hattie B. H. Brown) 
d.ed March 7, 1866. 
HEAD, Betsey M. (wife of George W. 
Head) died Sept 30, 1868, aged 45 yrs 
4 mos. 
HEBARD, Elizabeth (wife of William 
H. Hebard) died May 27, 18S7, aged 74 
yrs. 
HEMPHILL, Elvira (dau of Nathaniel 
and Jane Hemphill) died July 14, 1868, 
aged 32 yrs; Mary Jane (dau) died 
Aug 25, 1855, aged 37 yrs; Hannah 
(dau) died May 1, 1845, aged 25 yrs; 
Isabel (dau) died Dec 10, 1839, aged 5 
yrs 10 mos; Nathaniel died Aug 6, 
1843. aged 55 yrs; Jane (his wife) died 
May 20, 1859, aged 64 yrs 2 mos 6 dys; 
Little Melvin (only child of John and 
Betsey Hemphill) died April 4, 1S60, 
aged 3 mos 24 dys. 
HEMPHILL, Jane died May 30, 1866, 
aged 76 yrs; Nathaniel died Aug 
22, 1821, aged 65 yrs; Jane (his wife) 
died April 7, 1833, aged 80 yrs; Lydia 
C. (wife of Edward P. Estey) (q. v.) 
HERRICK, Israel died Sett 9, 1880, 
aged 75 yrs 5 mos; Mary C. Ford (his 
wife) died March 27, 1857, aged 46 yrs 
6 mos; Infant (son) died March 21, 
1849, aged — ; Mary Jane (dau) died 
Sept 28. 1847. aged 11 yrs 9 mos; Nancy 
B. (dau) died Sept 19, 1847, aged 10 yrs 
1 mo; Infant (dau) died June 26, 1841, 
age — . 
HILDRETH, Henry Martyn (son of 
A. F. and Ann E. Hildreth) died July 
7, 1841, aged 16 yrs; Eliphalet G. (son) 
died Feb 9. 1823, aged 20 mos; In- 
fant (child) died Sept 19. 1823, — ; 
Ann Elizabeth (mother) died Oct IS, 
1S43, aged 47 yrs. 
HILL. John S. died Nov 25. 1883, aged 
87 yrs 3 mos 4 dys; Keturah Lord 
(his wife) died July 6, 1867, aged 74 
yrs 1 mo 20 dys; Henry L.; Mary M. 
(his wife) died Dec 30, 1885. aged 53 
yrs; Fred W. (their son) died Feb. 7, 
1877, aged 20 yrs 4 mos; Etta L. Web- 
■ ster (wife of George Hill and dau of 
Stephen B. and Belinda Webster) 
died May 6, 1885, aged 21 yrs 8 dys. 
HILLIARD. William T. (son of T. M. 
and Catherine P. Hilliard) died April 
1, 1852, aged 33 yrs; T. M. died Jan 29, 
186.">, aged 69 yrs. 
HINSDALE, Mrs. Sarah C. for many 
years missionary of the American 
Board of Commissioners of Foreign 
Missions died June 10, 1857. aged 48 
yrs "She hath done what she could." 
HODGE. Benjamin Franklin (son of 
Capt. John and Rhoda Hodge) died 
Dec 20. 1834. aged lyr 5mos. 
HOTTGHTON. Mary wife of Henry S. 

Warner) (q. v.) 
HOIT. Charles born April 26, 1800. died 
Aug 3, 1877; Hannah T. (his wife) born 
March 17, 1799. died Oct 23. 1881; 
Capt. Moses born Jan 6. 1773. died 
Nov 29. 1853; Betsey Dole (his wife) 
born April 29. 1780, died March 7, 
1847. 
HOLMES. Abraham died May 20. 1753. 
aged 70 yrs; Grisel (his wife) died 
Feb 21, 1788. aged 78 yrs; Nathaniel 
died Sept 25, 1764, aged 45 yrs; Lieut. 
John died Nov 2, 1794. aged 47 yrs; 
Martha (his wife) died Sept 5. 1778, 
aged 25 yrs; Samuel (their son) died 
March 7, 1786, aged — : Susanna died 
April 28, 1809, aged 49 yrs; John died 
June 1, 1813. aged 26 yrs; Mary Adams 
(wife of Elder John Holmes) died Nov 
29. 1852. aged 68 yrs; James died 
March lO, 1S67. aged 74 yrs; Susan W, 



(his wife) died Oct 28, 1855, aged 56 
yrs; Susan K. (his wife) died June 7, 
1883, aged 73 yrs 9 mos 8 dys. 

HOOD, Harvey born June 1, 1798, died 
Sept 18, 1878; Rebecca (his wife) born 
Aug 5. 1797, died Oct 27, 1882, stone 
giving her age 115 yrs; Ellen M. (dau) 
born July 10. 1S40, died April 20. 1860; 
Edward P. (son) born March 3. 1838, 
died Nov 6, 1860: Henry C. (son) born 
Nov 19, 1835, died Feb 22, 1866; Mary 
A. (dau) born Aug 28, 1833, died June 
26, 1886. 

HOPKINS, John Esq., died April 5, 
1834. aged 63 yrs; Mary (his wife) died 
Feb 24, 1826. aged 50 yrs; John (their 
son) died Dec 30. 1823, aged 25 yrs; 
Mary P. (dau of Robert and Ruth 
Hoplvins) died Sept. 25. 1848, aged 17 
yrs 6 mos; Helen M. (dau) died Sept. 
1, 1839. aged 4 yrs; Elizabeth (dau) 
died May 12. 1849. aged 7 yrs 3mos; 
Robert died May 13. 1849. aged .51 yrs; 
Ruth (his wife) died April 3. 1870, aged 

71 yrs; Martha (his wife) died Sept 28, 
1855, aged 35 yrs; Naomi died April 2, 
1753. aged 21 yrs. 

HORLOR, Emily died Dec 7, 1894, aged 

72 yrs. 

HORNE. Clara A. (dau of Peter and 

Mary A. Home) died Feb 10, 1854, 

aged 1 yr 11 mos 10 dvs. 
HOUSTON. Samuel died Sept 25, 1757, 

aged 65 yrs; Martha died May 21, 

1755, aged 22 yrs. 
HOVEY. Charlotte died Oct 31, 1865, 

aged 67 yrs; Elizabeth died May 30, 

1847, aged 86 yrs. 
HOW, Isaac died July 3, 1879, aged 85 

yrs; Sarah Hal! (his wife) born June 

I, 1797, died April 2, 1874; Charles 
(son of Isaac and Abigail How) died 
Oct 30, 1851, aged 21 yrs. 

HUBBARD, Ithamar born Aug 13. 
1808. died Oct 6, 1874; Mary MacNeill 
(his wife) born April 17, 1819. died 
March 24. 1885; Henry H. (their son) 

■ born May 31. 1S46, died Sept 5, 1885; 
George I. (son) born Nov 16, 1855, died 
Nov 19. 1888. 

HUMPHREY, Dr. Benjamin died Feb 
9. 1839. aged 65 yrs; Margaret (his 
wife) died Oct 20, 1836, aged 48 yrs; 
James died June 26, 1S2S, aged 75 yrs; 
Jane (his wife) died Jan 3. 1846, aged 
92 yrs; Deacon John died April 14, 
1867, aged 81 yrs; Rebecca Brewster 
(his wife) died Nov 12, 1871, aged 93 
yrs; Little Allie (dau of Daniel F. 
and Harriet A. Humphrey) died Nov 

II, 1865, aged 6 yrs 15 hours; Mrs. 
Mary died Feb 4. 1763. aged 81 yrs; 
Charles R. (son of William and 
Bridget Humphrey) born July 5, 1854. 
died May 5, 1874; Lizzie (dau) died 
Aug 3. 1879. aged 15 yrs 4 mos 4 dys; 
Samuel Fisher (son of Elder John 
and Rebecca Humplirey) died Mav 
12. 1826. aged 7 yrs; Sarah died July 
8, 1866, aged 73 yrs; Jennette died 
April 17. 1874. aged S3 yrs; William 
died Dec 25. 1767, aged 81 yrs; Wil- 
liam died April 25, 1814, aged 75 yrs; 
Barbara (his wife) died Aug 8, 1808, 
aged 63 yrs; Samuel F. (son of James 
and Jane Humphrey) died June 15. 
1808, aged 24 yrs; Jane (dau of Wil- 
liam and Barbara Humphrey) died 
Jan 11, 1835, aged 51 yrs; William 
born Nov 9. 1789. died Sept 10. 1840; 
Margaret (his wife) born April 2, 
1797. died Jan 10. 1876; Betsey (dau) 
died March 30. 1821, aged 2 vrs 6 mos. 

HI^NKINS. Hannah Adams (wife of 
John Hunkins) difd Nov 19. 1872. 
aged 73 yr.*: 6 mos. 

HUNT. Daniel died Jan 6. 1860. aged 
76 yrs; Mary (his wife) died April 25, 
1875, aged 80 yrs; Enoch Ordway (son 
of Frederic E. and Eliza R. Hunt) died 
Dec 24. 18.31. aged 16 wks; Martha 
(wife of James Nesmith) died Aug 
IS. 1846. aged 24 yrs 8 pins; Martha 



(wife of Hon. David Gregg) born 
Northfield. Mass.. April 28. 1798, died 
in Derry Feb 9. 1843; Electa (wife of 
Ellsworth Hunt) died March 16, 1825, 
aged 53 yrs. 
HUNTER, Ina H. (wife of C. O. Hunt- 
er) (see Bean)- James (son of John 
and Agnes) died May 11, 1764, aged 14 
yrs; Jemima (wife of Robert Hunter) 
died March 29, 1774, aged 29 yrs; 
Robert, soldier, died in Danbury, N. 
H. in the service of his country, 1778, 
aged 36 yrs. 
HUTCHINSON. Lydia Jones (wife of 
Nathan Hutchinson died Nov 28. 1S73, 
aged 90 yrs; Austeen Stuart died May 
11. 1884, aged 63 yrs; Martlia J. died 
Feb 14, 1873, aged 40 yrs 8 mos; Al- 
exander, Co. C, 11th Reg.. N. H. Vol. 
died Peterburg. Virginia. June 28, 
1864, aged 28 yrs 11 mos 2 dvs. 
HUSTON, A. J., Co. H. 2nd Mass. Art. 
(No date) Companion (no name nor 
dafe). 
JACK. Alexander died March 20, 18.53, 
aged 60 yrs; Elizabeth Ferrin (his 
y wife) died Oct 8, 1829, aged 27 yrs; 
Samuel died March 26, 1793, aged 43 
yrs; Poley Morrison (dau of Capt. 
Samuel and Jean Jack) died Sept 3. 
1791. aged 2 yrs 11 mos 10 dys. 
JAMES. Joseph Y. died March IS. 1877, 
aged 58 yrs 9 mns; Mary W. McMur- 
phy (his wife) died Sept 20. 1865, aged 
42 yrs 1 mo; Fred Wilson (san) died 
Sept 26, 1858, aged 3 mos. 
JEFFERS. Robert, veteran of 1812. died 
April 12. 1S71. aged SO yrs 5 mos; Mar- 
tha Patten (his wife) died Nov 21, 1862. 
aged 70 yrs 3 mos 4 dys; Richard Mel- 
vin (son) killed at Murfreesboro Dec 
31, 1862, aged 28 yrs; Martha E. (dau) 
died Oct 12, 1851, aged 14 yrs 7 mos; 
Susan F. (dau) died Sept 16. 1838. aged 
4 mos 19 dys; Sarah C. Buttrick (wife 
of William Jeffers) died Oct 20. 1850, 
aged 29 yrs. 
JENNESS, Catharine (wife of John S. 
Jenness) died Sept 11. 1853, aged 25 yrs 
26 dys; Abraham D. died Oct 24, 1863, 
aged 45 yrs 5 mns; Abigail S. H. (his 
wife) died March 7. 1866, aged 43 yrs 
11 mos; Joseph died Sept 25."lS69. aged 
83 yrs 3 mos; Daty Drake (his wife) 
died March 27, 1836, aged 49 vrs 5 mos. 
JEWKTT. Eunice died Jan" 12, 1871, 
aged 84 yrs; George died March 19, 
1880, aged 67 yrs; Mary died Feb 5, 
1875, aged SO yrs; Moses died Sept 9, 
1857, aged 67 yrs 4 mos; Nathaniel died 
Nov 25, 1838. aged 86 yrs; Elizabeth 
(his wife) died Nov 20, 1833, aged 77 
yrs. 
JOHNSON. Frank H. died Elkhart. 
Ind.. Feb 24. 1884. aged 32 yrs 5 mos 12 
dys. (His monument is a cast iron 
shaft six or seven feet high, very 
pretty in design.) Bartlett D. died 
Sept 25. 1857. aged 26 yrs 4 mos 21 dys; 
Willie (son of W. L. and F. J.) died 
Aug 28. 1889. aged 17 dys; John B. died 
Feb 3, 1846, aged 34 yrs 7 mos; Stephen 
died Dec 9, 1827, aged 48 yrs; Hannah 
(his wife) died Aug 13, 1857, aged 69 
yrs; Sophia (dau) died Aug 20, 1826, 
aged 2 yrs 6 mos; Nathan born April 
26. 1777. died March 25. 1853: Pollv born 
April 22. 1782. died Feb 6. 1876; Eliza A. 
(dau) born May 2. 1809. died Feb S. 
1S7S: S. Maria (dau) born Dec 3. 1823, 
died Aug 3. 1891; Ehenezer died Dec 5, 
1838, aged 61 yrs; Mary (his wife) died 
Jan 19, 1825. aged 48 yrs: Lucinda 
(wife) died Feb 25. 1840. aged 39 vrs; 
Sophia (dau) died Oct 21. 1822. aged IS 
yrs: Mary (dau) died Dec 23.' 1832, 
aged 31 yrs: Louisa (dau) died April 
6. 1836, aged 33 yrs. 
JONES. Enoch died Aug 19. 1845. aged 
64 vrs; Mary (his wife) died Aug 6, 
1841, aged 62 yrs; Van Ranselier died 
Dec 25. 1871, aged 51 yrs 7 mos; Mar- 
garet H, (his wife) died .Tune 29, 188S, 



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343 



aged 52 yrs; Linda (dau) died May 5. 
1880, aged 18 yrs 6 mos; Gilbert died 
Sept 11, 1855, aged 59 yrs; Betsey (his 
wife) died April 13, 1882, aged 80 yrs; 
Kzel<iel died Sept 29, 1879, aged 82 yrs 
8 mos 10 dys; Fanny (his wife) died 
March 18, 1846, aged 49 yrs 1 mo 18 dys; 
Hugh born May 15, 1802. died Nov 21, 
1881; Mehitabel Wyman (his wife) born 
Oct 23, ISOO, died March 30, 1859; Wil- 
liam (son) born Jan 24, 1829, died 
March 2, 1831; Elizabeth MacMurphy 
(wife of Joseph Jones and dau of 
Archibald and Isabella MacMurphy) 
died Sept 28, 184S, aged SO yrs 1 mo 14 
dys 
KARR, John (son of David and 
Hannah Karr) died Nov 22, 1851, aged 
47 yrs; Henry D. (Sfin) born Jan 2. 
1816, died July 10, ISSO; David died Oct 
2. 1867, aged 89 yrs 7 mos; Hannah 
Duncan (wife and dau of John and 
Hannah Duncan) died July 24, 1852, 
aged 74 yrs 8 mos 15 dys; John died 
Nov 2, 1765, aged 20 yrs; John died Nov 
16. 17.50. aged 48 yrs; an illegible in- 
scription; Margaret died Sept 6, 1849, 
aged 71 yrs; John died July 11, 1846. 
aged 71 yrs; William died Aug 31, 18.37. 
aged 69 yrs; John died Oct 2. 1784. aged 
52 yrs; William (son of David and 
Hannah D. Karr) died Dec 10, 1876, 
aged 75 yrs; Clarissa Cobb (his wife 
and dau Lieut. Malatiah and Rebecca 
Cobb) died May 22. 1884. aged 87 yrs; 
Luther Bell (their son) died Oct 29. 
1839. aged 5 yrs; Mary (wife of John 
Karr) died Feb 2. 1834. aged 95 yrs; 
Agnes (dau of John and Mary Karr) 
died Aug 30. 1.800, aged 28 yrs; Agnes 
(dau of John Karr) died Feb 2, 1817, 
aged 92 yrs; William died March 23. 
17.54. aged 62 yrs. 

KAST. Philip Godfrid (a curious slate 
stone slab with elaborate designs and 
symbols, some of which are Sun. 
Moon, Stars, an Altar Lighted with 
Three Candles, Plummet, Level. 
Square and Compass. Trowel. Coffin, 
Buskin and Shoe. Inscription as fol- 
lows: "Virtue Silence. Erected 

in memory of Philip — Godfrid — Kast. 
He was a gentleman of extensive ac- 
quaintance and his benevolence was 
no less confined. His hospitality was 
without ostentation. In a word he 
was a benefactor to his kind. In his 
last sickness his pain was extreme, 
which he endured with a truly philo- 
sophic spirit without the least repin- 
ing almost beyond example. He has 
left an inconsolable widow and five 
small children, joined by the multi- 
tude to lament the loss of a tender 
husband and indulgent parent and 
valuable friend. He departed this 
life September 6th. 17—)." 

KELSEY. Ida May( only dau of John 
and Mary Kelsey) died Nov 13. 1870. 
aged 14 yrs; Walter A. (son) died Nov 
26. 1848. aged 2 yrs; Mary died Sept 22. 
1884. aged 75 yrs 1 mo 20 dys; Eliza- 
beth (dau of Alexander and Elizabeth 
Kelsey) died April 4. 1848. aged 27 yrs 
10 mos; Alexander died Dec 13. 1846. 
aged 65 yrs; Elizabeth (his wife) died 
Aug 29. 185,1. aged 70 yrs 8 m:os. 

KELSO. Alexander died Sept 15. 1775. 
aged 52 yrs; Ann (his wife) died Sept 
4. 1754. aged 45 yrs; John (their son) 
'died Sept 29. 1755. aged 16 yrs; Ann 
(dau) died Oct 6, 1763. aged 14 yrs: 
William died May 10. 1769, aged 69 vrs; 
John died March 9. 1774. aged 49 yrs. 

KELLEY. Mabel W. died Nov 18. 1888. 
aged 21 yrs 3 mos 11 dys: Esther 
(wife of James Kelley) died Oct 8. 
1838. aged 49 yrs; Triphena (dau) died 
Oct 22. 1836. aged 20 yrs. 

KELLY. James died Feb 24, 1865. aged 
55 yrs; Susan (his wife) born; Susan 
Maria (dau) died Feb IS, 1854, aged 
3 yrs 4 mos 14 dys; Elizabeth G. born 
J814, died 1SS9; John died Jan 21, 1860, 



aged 87 yrs 6 mos; Hannah (his wife) 
died Nov 5. 1S33, aged 59 yrs; John S. 
(son) died Ogdensburg, N. Y., Oct 17, 
1858, aged 54 yrs; (in the same lot Otis 
Bramhall 1813-1888; A. M. K. 1816-1886. 

KENT, Mariner died Dec 7, 1843. aged 
86 yrs; Sarah (his wife) died May 24. 
1843. aged 82 yrs. 

KERSHAW. Hannah (wife of James 
Kershaw) died Sept 17. 1852, aged 60 
yrs. 

KIMBALL, Benjamin died Feb 15, 1863, 
aged 71 yrs; ±-olly C. (his wife) died 
July 17. 1853, aged 52 yrs; Orman 
Dana (son) died March 24, 1833, aged 
1 yr 9 mos; Robert Smith (son) died 
May 23, 1837, aged 1 yr; Amos died Oct 
18, 1852, aged 79 yrs; Affa (his wife) 
died March 22, 1857, aged 85 yrs; Mary 
Ann (wife of William B. Kimball and 
dau of Charles and Betsey Redfield) 
died Oct 31. 1838. aged 23 yrs 6 mos; 
Eliza Ann (wife of Benjamin Kim- 
ball, formerly wife of George Burn- 
ham, died Jan 2. 1857. aged 48 yrs) 
died Sept 4. 1867. aged .57 yrs 5 mos; 
Adeline A. (dau of Daniel and Debo- 
rah Kimball) died Jan 11. 1839. aged 
18 yrs 6 mos; John died Sept 2. 1851. 
aged 81 yrs; Rachel (his wife) died 
March 9. 1837. aged 63 yrs; Charles 
Franklin (son of Lorenzo and Abigail 
Kimball) died June 17. 1S68. aged 23 
yrs; Abbie Francis (dau) died July 15. 
1867. aged 32 yrs; Lorenzo died Jan 22. 
1871. aged 67 yrs. 

KLEIN. John H. died Jan 20. 1S63. aged 
6 yrs 10 mos 12 dys; Frederick died 
Feb 15, 1863, aged 5 yrs 3 mos IS dys; 
Lizzie died Dec 5, 1871, aged 19 yrs 
3 mos 9 dys;Charles died March 12, 1885, 
aged 24 yrs 11 mos 3 dys. Four chil- 
dren of Joseph and Elizabeth Klein. 
"Sunft ruhe deine asche." 

KNIGHT. Antoinette De G. (wife of A. 
B. Knight) born Dec 20. 1842. died Jan 
16. 1890; Irving. 7 yrs; Emma L., 16 
dys; Lucy B.. 26 dys. 

LAMMERING. Joseph (son of H. and 
J. Lammering) died Felj 19, 1865, aged 

5 yrs. 

LANE, Col. G. W. (Tomb). 

LARRABEE, Eunice S. (wife of Will- 
iam Larabee) died July 3. 1S53, aged 
47 yrs; George W. (son) died Aug 18, 
1848, aged 5 mos 27 dys. 

LEACH. Emily L. (dau of James and 
Emily Leach) died Oct 9. 1848, aged 12 
wks; Emily (wife of James Leach) 
died Dec 28, 1852, aged 31 yrs; William 
died March 22. 1872. aged 53 yrs; Jos- 
eph Jr. (son of Capt. Joseph and Mar- 
tha Leach) died July 17. 1854. aged 26 
yrs; Dea. Joseph died Oct. 29. 1871. 
aged 83 yrs 5 mos; Martha Corning 
(his wife) died Jan 30, 1888, aged 96 yrs 

6 mos 16 dys. 

LELAND. Warren S. died April 23, 1874, 
aged 51 yrs 7 mos. 

LINDSAY, James died June 17. 1774, 
aged 94 yrs; Martha (his wife) foot- 
stone, no dates. 

LITTLE. Margare't (wife of Matthew 
Little) died Nov 23. 1.S03. aged 85 yrs. 
(See Pinkerton for more Littles.) 

LOGAN. Robert died May 16, 1762, aged 
37 yrs. 

LOW, Wesley died Nov 3, 1865, aged 49 
yiTS 7 mos; Hannah (wife of Elezier 
Low) died Aug 24, 1850. aged 68 yrs; 
Capt. Eleazer died March 14. ]S3i. 
aged 70 yrs; Sarah (his wife) died 
July 10. 1814. aged 47 yrs; George H. 
(son of John H. and Mary A. Low) 
died Oct 2, 1861, aged 1 yr 14 dys; Al- 
lie E. (dau) died Jan 10. 1S66. aged 3 
yrs 11 mos 26 dys: John died July 6. 
1870. aged 71 yrs; Mary P. (his wife) 
died Jan 11. 1874. aged 72 yrs 1 mo IS 
dys; Mary P. (dau) died Nov 2. 1835. 
aged 2 yrs 3 mos;David B. (son) died 
May 25. 1839. aged 1 yr 6 mos; George 
M. (son) died April 5, 1850, aged 3 yrs 
9 mos, 



MACK, Irena (wife of John Mack) died 
Sept 4, 1869, aged 63 yrs 6 mos. 

MAJOR, Harriet D. (wife of Rufus 
Griffin) born Feb 13. 1826, died Aug 21, 
1886; Rachel E. (wife of Thomas P, 
Major) died Aug 3, 1S83, aged 65 yrs; 
Joseph A. died June 28, 1859, aged 33 
yrs; Lynda died Nov 2S, 1872, aged 46 
yrs 1 mo; John died June 28, 1857, 
aged 78 yrs; Martha died Feb 11, 1874, 
aged 91 yrs 9 mos; Augustus H. (son 
of Jr-hilip and Persis D. Major) died 
Feb 25. 1849. aged 4 yrs 4 mos. 

MALLER. Hannah (wife of James 
Mailer) died Aug 12, 1751, aged 32 
yrs. 

MARSHALL. James P. C. (son of 
Joshua and Sarah Marshal)died Sept 

26, 1832, aged 10 mos 6 dys; Samuel 
died Dec 10, 1882, aged 90 yrs; Han- 
nah B. (his wife) died April IS, 1867, 
aged 67 yrs; Louisa died Sept 6, 1855, 
aged 26 yrs; Andrew J. died Aug 2, 
1861, aged 30 yrs; Samuel Jr. died June 
29, 1S62, aged 27 yrs; William died 
March 29. 1865, aged 27 yrs. 

MARTIN. Lucy (wife of Capt. Jacob 

Miartin) died July 20, 1787, aged 44 yrs. 
MAY. Hattie L. born 1864, died 1886; 

Jonathan born 1809, died lS85;Mary A 

(wife) born 1S08, died 1886, 
MAYO, John W. died Jan 18, 1854, aged 

37 yrs. 
MATTHEWS, Maria P. (wife of H. C. 

Matthews) died Oct 27. 1849, aged 32 

yrs; Sarah M. (dau and wife of J. C. 

Rollins) died Aug 5, 1878, aged 24 yrs 

9 mos. 
MARSH. Ephraim died Oct 16. 1760, 

aiged 50 yrs. 
McCartney. Alexander died Dee 4. 

1748. aged SO yrs; Martha (his wife) 

died April 21. 1769; Katrina died Sept 

1, 1754, aged 53 yrs. 
McCLITER. Martha (wife of Andrew 

McCluer and mother-in-law of John 

Reney and William Gregg) died Dec 

27. 1769. aged 80 yrs. 
McCARTEE. Robert died Feb 22. 1S62. 

aged 66 yrs 4 mos 16 dys; Sophia (his 
wife) died April 11. 1S71, aged 69 yrs 
7 dys; Sarah (dau) died April 9,, 1855, 
aged 17 yrs 2 mos 11 dys; George W. 
(son) died June 22. 1855, aged 26 yrs 
3 mos 16 dys; Sarah A. (wife of Henry 
McCartee) died Jan 29, 1859, aged 35 
yrs. 

McCOLLOM, Robert died Feb 14, 1850. 
aged 71 yrs; Lydia died Oct S. 1865. 
aged 83 yrs; Elizabeth boi-n July 15. 
1787, died Aug 9, 1S75; Jonathan diied 
Feb 24, 1851, aged 65 yrs; Martha died 
Jan 2, 1862, aged 73 yrs. 

McDUFFEE. Daniel died March 2. 1767. 
aged 76 yrs; Ruth (his wife) died Nov 
9. 1778. aged 86 yrs. 

McFARLAND. Andrew died Sept 18. 
1754. aged 20 yrs; Robert died April 14, 
1S06, aged 74 yrs; Mary (his wife) died 
Sept 26, 1829, aged 81 yrs. 

McGAW, Arabella (dau of Thomas and 
Hannah Mc(5aw) died Oct 28, 1818, 
aged 7 yrs; Thomas M. (son of 
Thomas and Hannah McGaiw) died 
Nov 19. ISIS, aged 5 yrs. 

MCGREGOR. Alanson T. born Aug 28, 
18.50, died Sept 23. 1S71; Marion born 
Dec 28. 1853. died March 27. 1875; 
Elizabeth born Dec 3. 1814. died Feb 
18. 1892; A. C. Thornton (wife of Da- 
vid McGregor) died Feb 23. 1873. aged 
73 yi-s; George Reid (son) died in Wy- 
oming Territory April 26. 1871. aged 
47 yrs; Helen (dau) died Oct 28. 1S34, 
aged 5 yrs; James (son of the Rev. 
James McGregor) died June 1. 1776, 
aged 53 yrs; Mary (his wife) died Nov 
13, 1775, aged 63 yrs; Robert (son ot 
Rev. David McGregor) died Sept 16. 
1816. aged 67 yrs; Elizabeth Reid (his 
wife, and dau of Gen. George Reid) 
died March 5. 1S47. aged 81 yrs; 
David (their son) died Bona Vista, 



344 



WILLEr'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



Cape d'Verde' Jan 16, 1829, aged 39 
yrs; George (son) died in New York 
June 29, 1837, aged 47 yrs; James (son 
of Rev. David McGregor) died June 
23, 1818, aged 70 yrs; Margaret (liis 
wife) died Dec 13, 1840, aged 88 yrs; 
David (tlieir son) died Nov 3, 1803, 
aged 23 yrs; Steplien (son) died June 
14, 1824, aged 31 yrs. 
"Here lyetii interred tiie body of tlie 
Reverend Mr. James McGregor, wlio 
departed tliis life March tiie 5th 
Anno Domine 1729, aged 52 years. 
Here also lyeth the body of Mrs. 
Maryanne McGregor, who was mar- 
ried to the late Reverend James Mc- 
Gregor, first minister in the town, 
August the 29th, 1706, and after his 
decease to the Reverend Mr. Mat- 
thew Clark the 2nd. She died Jan- 
uary the 1st, 1736 Anno Domme, 
Aetatis suae 62." (George McGregor, 
son of David and Catherine L. Hall) 
died Nov 29, 1S53, aged 1 yr 4 mos; 
James died June 23, 1846, aged 59 yrs; 
Jane (his wife) died June 8. 1S29, aged 
39 yrs; Jane Parker (his wife) (and 
formerly the wife of Elder John 
Parker of Litchfield) died Aug 26 
1870, aged 80 yrs. Etsi mors indies 
accelerat tamen virtue post /"nera 
vivit; Rev. David McGregor (son of 
the Rev James McGregor) died May 
30 1777. aged 68 yrs; Mary (his wife) 
died Sept 28, 1793, aged 70 yrs; James 
d ed sept 19 1825. aged 48 yrs; Robert 
dild dJc 19, 1845, aged 63 yrs 7 mos^ 
Lewis Aiken born Aug 12. 1812, died 
March 8 1882; Alexander born Nov 
Tim. died Feb 1, 1885 Sarah Wise 
(his wife) born June 8, 1813, diea 
M^rch 25 18S7; Sarah (their dau) 
?£nd wife of Daniel W. Hayes) died 
jub 23. 1S73, aged 34 yrs 6 mos, Ros- 
anna Aiken (dau of Samuel and Isa- 
bel Aiken) (and wife of James Mc- 
Gregor) born in Chester March 2, 
17S4 died in Londonderry Nov 23. 
1867' This stone was erected by her 
sister, Mrs. Mary Whitney; Susanna 
(see Bassett); Mary (wife of Re\ 
David McGregor of Bedford) died 
Dec 1, 1802, aged 27 yrs; Nancy (see 

M?KEEN, John died Aug 24 1822 aged 
28 yrs; Peggy (his wife) died Oct -2, 
1836, aged 47 yrs; Adam (son of Sam- 
uel McKeen) born May 25, 179/, died 
June 3 1814; Betsey (wite of Samuel 
McKeen) died July 5, 1798. aged 29 
yrs; Daniel. Jr. died Oct 16, 1819, aged 

28 yrs. 

The McKeen monument — In memoij 
of James McKeen, Esq., a principal 
proprietor and the first magistrate of 
the little colony which first settled 
the town, who died Nov. 9, 1756, aged 
91 years. His children by Jane 
Cochran, his first wife, were: Eliza- 
beth, the wife of James Nesmith and 
Jannette the wife of John Cochran. 
and bv Annas Cargill, his second 
wife: John McKeen, a member of 
the first provincial congress in N. H., 
James McKeen. Jane, the wife of 
William Orr, Martha, the wife of 
John Dinsmore and Mary, the wife 
of Robert Boyd. His other near rel- 
atives were his sister, Mary Ann, the 
wife of the Rev. James McGregor, 
Jannette. the widow of his brother 
John McKeen, and his and her three 
sons and one daughter formerly of 
Londonderry. Also in memory of 
Annas, his second wife, who died 
Aug. 8, 1782, aged 94 yrs. They were 
members of the Presbyterian church 
and to en.ioy their opi'-'i-ins in peace 
they and the Other colonists emigrat- 
ed from the north of Ireland to this 
country. In gratitude to God and in 
honor of departed worth this monu- 
ment was erected in the year 1848 by 
certain descendants of the deceased; 



Elizabeth (wife of James McKeen, 
Esq.) died April 22, 1752, aged 27 yrs; 
John died Oct 9, 1793, aged SO yrs; 
Mary (his wife) died June 22, 1798, 
aged 79 yrs. 

McKENDRY, Neal— no dates. 

McKENNEY. Abraham died Aug 2. 
1862, aged 62 yrs 20 dys; Betsey (his 
wife) born Sept 4, 1807, died Nov 6. 
1874; Walter Edwin (son( died May 25, 
1862, aged 29 yrs 5 mos 8 dys; Mary 
Ann (dau) died July 28, 1856, aged IS 
yrs 3 mos 14 dys; Julia Florence 
(dau) died March 9, 1858, aged 7 yrs 
2 mos 5 dys; Sargeant William Ham- 
bleton (son) Co. M, Mass. Cav. killed 
near Snicker's Gap. Va., July IS, 1864, 
aged 22 yrs S dys; Andrew Jackson 
(son) Co. B, 14th Mass. regiment, died 
Oct 30, 1865, aged 25 yrs 2 mos 29 dys. 

McLAREN. Cynthia (wite of James 
McLaren) died July 21. 1851, aged 53 
yrs. 

McMURPHY. Dea. Benjamin died Nov 
14, 1859, aged 80 yrs 6 mos; Susan Cobb 
(his wife) died Feb 16, 1S62, aged 70 
yrs 1 mos; Rebecca (dau) died Aug 5, 
1888, aged 68 yrs; John B. (son) died 
Jan S. 1858, aged 29 yrs; Alice (sister) 
died Sept 14. 1871. aged 90 yrs 1 mo 
14 dys; William Adams (son) died 
Nov 10, 1866, aged 31 yrs 2 mo, (Susan 
Cobb the wife of Dea. Benjamin Mc- 
Murphy was dau of Lieut. Malatiah 
and Rebecca (Brewster) Cobb of Lon- 
donderry;) James born Nov 22, 1797, 
died Jan 28, 1881, "Gone up higher;" 
Sarah Reid (his wife) born June 14, 
1809, died Dec 25. 1894, "For all live 
unto him;" Henry James (son) grad- 
uated at Dartmouth college 1867. born 
Sept 26. 1843, died March 3. 1S6S, "Thy 
brother shall rise again:" Abby Fran- 
ces (dau) a teacher in the public 
schools ait Lawrence, born Feb 25. 1874, 
died Feb 3. 1875, "She is not dead but 
sleepeith;" Lieut. Robert died July 18. 
1818. aged 66 yrs: Jane Rankin (his 
wife) died Jan 13. 1806. aged 50 yrs; 
Sarah Cristy (his wife) died Dec 26, 
182S, aged 69 yrs; Alexander died Jan 
8, 1763. aged 33 yrs; Archibald died 
Feb 19. 1816, aged 71 yrs; IsabeUa 
Aid (his wife) died Oct 7. 1830, aged 84 
yrs; Charles died May 31. 1S56. aged 27 
yrs S mos: James died at Panama 
Aug 22, 18.50. aged 28 yrs 9 mos: Lydia 
Frances (dau of James and Lydia Mc- 
Murphy) died .Sept 21. 1S51, aged 3 
yrs 10 mos: Robert Esq. died Jan 26. 
1814, aged 91 yrs; Jane Shirley (his 
wife) died Jan 31, 1804, aged 84 yrs; 
Robert (son of Robert and Mary Mc- 
Murphy) died Jan 27, 1839. aged 4 yrs; 
James (son of Lieut. Robert McMur- 
phy) died Sepit IS. 1814. aged 19 yrs: 
John died March IS. 1819. aged 22 yrs: 
James died Oct 16. 1S52, aged 76 yrs: 
Polly Jack (his wife) died April ?1, 
1821, aged 32 yrs; James died May 30. 
1792. aged 57 yrs; Mary Wilson (his 
wife) died May 10, ISIS, aged 79 yrs; 
William (son of Robert and Jane Mc- 
Murphy) died Aug 10. 1791. aged 35 
yrs: Squire John member of the gen- 
eral court for more than thirty years, 
died at Portsmouth Sept 21, 1755. aged 
73 yrs: Mary (his wife) died Nov 19, 
1770, as'ed 87 yrs: Alexander born 
Dec 9. 1813: Sarah A. Gibson (his wife) 
born April 2. 1.818; Fliza Jane (dau) 
horn June 19. 1849. died Feb 3. 1S5S- 
Angeline (dan) born Oct 16, 185?. died 
Jan 9. 18.54: Sarah (dau) born Feb 24. 
1855, died May 17. 1S55; Fmma Car- 
oline (dau) born Dec 20. 1857, died Aug 
10, 1865: Ebenezer died April 26. 1854. 
aged 65 yrs: Julia A. (dau of Fben- 
pzer and Pollv McMurohy) died Mav 
■*. 1854. aged 29 ^-rs: Eliza A. (wife of 
Sila« Dinsmore McMurnhy) died July 
5, 1880, aged 65 -v^rs: Ge^rs-e I*^ai"*"ar 
born May 23, 1817. died Feb 13. 1891; 



Jane (wife of Capt. Allen Goss) (q. v.) 
Mary Tolford born Aug 3, 17S3, died 
Sept 18. 1876. 

McNeill, Daniel (eldest son of Alex- 
ander and Jean McNeill) died March 
11, 1782, aged 46 yrs; Alexander died 
June 2. 1751. aged 56 yrs 8 m is: Robert 
(son of Alexander McNeill) died June 
29, 1753. aged 11 yr.s; William died May 
13, 1831, aged 61 yrs; Persis Thom (dau 
of William and Elizabeth McNeill) 
died Jan 22, 1816, aged 22 mos; Hannah 
(wife of John McNeill) died Aug 2, 
1755, aged 23 yrs. 

MCQUESTEN. Judith (dau of James 
and Margery) died Aug 14, 1821. aged 
13 yrs; Mellen Robert born 1805. died 
1890; Lucinda G. (wife) born 1895, died 
1S89 

MELVIN, Richard died Jan 16, 1870, 
aged 83 yrs 11 mos: Ann (his wife) died 
Aug 15, 1842, aged 43 yrs; Jane D. Karr 
(his wife) died March 5, 186S, aged 61 
yrs 2 mos; Eliza Ann (dau) died Oct 
29, 1840, aged 10 yrs 10 dys; George B. 
(son) died Aug 26, 1857, aged 23 yrs 6 
mos. 

MERRILL. Sarah G. (wife of William 
B.Merrill) died Dec 26, 1S73, aged 60 yrs: 
5 mos 14 dys: Jane (wife of Benjamin 
Merrill) died May 24, 1886, aged 67 yrs 

10 mos; Sarah (wife of Benjamin Mer- 
rill) died Aug 19, 1848, aged 68 yrs; 
Benjamin died Jan 4, 1848. aged 69 yrs; 
Sarah P. (dau of Benjamin and Sarah 
Merrill) died March 23. 1837, aged 21 
yrs; Arthur (son of Benjamin and 
Jane Merrill) died Dec 21, 1856. aged 1 
yr 3 mos: Arthur L. (son) died Sept 22, 
1852, aged 11 yrs 8 mos; Edwin died 
Feb 9. 1862. aged 49 yrs; Mary died 
July 3, 1861. aged 85 yrs 4 mos; (Sarah 
Dodge died Feb 10, 1863, aged 84 yrs 

11 mos): Austin G. died March 12. 1881, 
aged 64 yrs; Maria J. (wife of George 
W. Barker) died Sept S, 1869, aged 36 
yrs: Col. William died July 22. 1880, 
aged 72 yrs 10 mos: John died Oct 11, 
1833, aged 67 yrs; Betsey (his wife) 
died Sept 10, 1S52, aged 82 yrs. 

MESSER. Ira A. died Jan 23, 1872, aged 
71 yrs. 

MILLER. Abraham died April 24. 1851, 
aged 74 yrs: Martha W. (dau of Abra- 
ham and Narcissa Miller) died April 
26. 1850. aged 16 yrs. 

MILLS. Hugh died March 21. 1872. aged 
82 yrs 10 mos: Lydia (his wife) died 
April 2, 1868, aged 73 yrs; Lydia (their 
dau) died July 5, 1849, aged 29 yrs; 
Sarah E. died Aug 25, 1871. aged 37 yrs 
3 mos. 

MILTIMORE. Rev. William born June 5, 
1770, died May 12, 1848. Graduated at 
Dartmouth college 1798. Phi Beta 
Kappa, ordained to the ministry Fal- 
mouth, Maine. 1803. in 1839 removed to 
pastorate in Litchfield, N. H.. where 
he died; Samuel D. (son of the Rev. 
William Miltimore) died Oct 27, 1814, 
aged 7 yrs: Col. Daniel died Aug 8. 
1S28. aged 75 yrs: Agnes (his wife) died 
Sept 3, 1842, aged 90 yrs; Janet died 
Aug 5. 1852, aged 86 yrs 2 mos; Martha 
died April 5, 1849. aged 71 yrs; Janet 
(wife of William Miltimore) died Aug 
14. 1820. aged 84 yrs; William died Aug 
5. 1814, aged 78 yrs; James died Feb 4, 
1794. aged 77 yrs: Elizabeth (his wife) 
died March 9. 1789, aged 64 yrs: John 
H. died Oct 10. 1857. aged 74 yrs; Leon- 
ard Hall (son of James and Sarah Mil- 
timore) died April 3, 1849, aged 7 yrs 
2 mos 6 dys: William Henry (son) died 
March 17. 1849, aged 5 yrs 3 mos 21 dys; 
Daniel James (son) died March 26. 
1849. aged 11 mos 22 dys; Elias B. (son) 
died Sept 5, 1850. aged 20 dys: James 
died Nov 19, 1,S75. aged SI yrs; William 
(son of Jameis and Elizabeth Milti- 
more) died Sept 7. 1789. aged 24 yi-s; 
Elizabeth (dau of .Tames and Eliza- 
beth Miltimore) died Feb 12. 1784. aged 



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U?, 



17 yrs; Janet (dau) died May 12. 1764, 
aged 7 yrs. 
MITCHELL, Ann (wife of Samufl 
Mitcliell) died June .5. 1753. aged 71 
yrs; Capt. John died Aug 10 1776 aged 
.SO yrs: Eleanor (his wife) died March 
16. 1771. aged 74 yrs. 
MONTGOMERY, Lieut. Hugh die'd Jan 
4, 1800, aged 60 yrs: Peggy (his wife) 
died June 5, 1791, aged 38 yrs 5 dys: 
Rol^ert died July 15. 1775, aged 80 yrs: 
Rebecca (his wife) died March 20. 1769. 
aged 66 yrs; Robert (son) died Sept 12, 
1746. aged 5 yrs; Rebecca died Oct 12. 
1840, aged 59 yrs; Elizabeth (dau of 
John and Mary Montgomery) died Oct 
9. 1767, aged 15 yrs; General William 
died Sept 30, 1845, aged 57 yrs; Mary 
Wallace Anderson (his wife) died 
April 10. 1854. aged 63 yrs: Dea. Robert 
born 1790, died 1864; Mary (wafe of 
William Jeffers) (dau of William and 
Mary Montgomery) died Oct 27. 1860, 
aged 42 yrs: Jane Wallace (dau of 
Gen. Wm. and Mary Montgomery) 
died Oct 26. 183», age'd 28 yrs; (she died 
at Twiford, Westmoreland, Va.). 
MOORE, Capt. John; Mary Ann (his 
wife) (dau of Andrew and Maryann 
Clendennen) died April 15, 1766. aged 
38 yrs; Elder James died March 6, 
1817, aged 46 yrs; Jane (his wife) died 
March 27, 1853, aged 85 yrs; James 
died Sept 30, 1755. aged 49 yrs; James 
died Sept 7, 1775, aged 28 yrs: Col. 
Robert died Oct 25, 1778, aged 52 yrs: 
John died Jan 24, 1774, aged 91 yrs; 
Jenet (his wife) died March 8, 1776, 
aged 89 vrs: John died Sept 15, 1862, 
aged 68 yrs; John died Feb 24, 1827. 
aged 74 yrs; Hannah (his wife) died 
Jan 13, 1825, aged 74 yrs; Mary (dau 
of Andrew and Ann Moore) died Aug 
4. 1806, aged 13 yrs; William died Jan 
1. 1739, aged 59 yrs; John died Nov 30, 
1870, aged 71 yrs 2 mos 11 dys; Alice 
(his wife) diedApril 11, 1883, aged 73 
yrs 1 mos 22 dys; Catherine (wife of 
Capt. John Moore) died Nov 3. 1819, 
aged 50 yrs; Ann died Jan 7, 1845, 
aged 75 yrs; George died Oct 25, 1782, 
aged 64 yrs; Jane died Dec 1, 1815, 
aged 90 yrs; William died March 8, 
1808. aged 41 yrs; Catherine (his wife) 
died Oct 28, 1822, aged 59 yrs; George 
died April 22, 1871, aged 74 yrs; Sally 
(his wife) died May 26, 1833, aged 37 
yrs; Sharh H. (his wife) died June 27. 
1875, aged 72 yrs 9 mos; William died 
Sept 20, 1874, aged 86 yrs 8 mos; Sally 
(his wife) uied June 1, 1842, aged 44 
yrs; Mary (his wife) died Sept 1, 1881, 
aged 85 yrs; Josiah died Jan 28, 1827, 
aged 23 yrs; Elder Andrew died Jan 
15, 1835, aged 74 yrs; Ann (his wife) 
died April 19, 1832, aged 72 yrs; Cath- 
erine (dau) die'd Sept 6, 1830, aged 30 
yrs; Nancy (dau) died March 28, 1843, 
aged 46 yrs; Ann died April 20, 1760, 
aged 8 yrs 9 mos; Eupheme died June 
12, 1742, aged 3 yrs 7 mos; Mary (wife of 
Samuel Moore) died April 8, 1733, aged 
72 yrs; Sarah Reynolds (wife of 
George Moore) died June 1, 1875, aged 
53 yrs; (William H. Ayer died Feb 5. 
1866, aged 33 yrs); Harriet (his wife) 
died April 8, 1867, aged 34 yrs; Letitia 
(wife of Dea Robert Moore) died Dec 
6, 1882, aged 88 yrs; Jane (their dau) 
died Aug 22, 1867, aged 85 yrs; Janet 
(dau) died Jan 4, 179a, aged 42 yrs. 
This monument is erected to the mem- 
ory of Deacon Robetr Mwir who de- 
parted this life April 4. 1796, aged 72 
years and Mrs. Lettia Moore deceased 
wife to Deacon Robert Moore and dau 
to Thomas Coghran Elder in New Bos- 
ton and Mrs. Janet his wife, who de- 
parted this life March 11, 1775, in the 42d 
year of her age, also two children of the 
above named Jean died Aug 24, 1758, 
aged 15 dys; Mary died March 9, 1737, 
aged 18 mos; John (son) died Aug, 



1802, aged 30 yrs; Sarah Bradford died 
Aug 10, 1867, aged 41 yrs 9 mos. 

MORRILL, Ephraim died April 21, 
1888, aged 77 yrs; Sarah died Feb 4, 
1885, ag-ed 72 yi's; Mary A. died Feib 5, 
1879, aged 35 yrs. 

MORRISON, Betsey died July 28, 1858, 
aged 81 yrs 6 mos; Ann (w"ite of Capt. 
Jo^hn Moirison) died Feb 3, 1786. aged 
64 yrs; David died March 28, 1755, aged 
88 yrs; Mary Ann (his wife) died Jan 
9. 1751. aged 70 yrs; Samuel died Sept 
29. 1757, aged 76 yrs; Margaret (his 
wife) died April 30, 1774. aged 90 yrs: 
Samuel died March 15. 1775. aged 43 
yrs; Dea HalbeiU died June 6, 1753, 
aged 70 yrs: Dea David died Feb 24, 
1825, aged 95 yns; Elizabeth (his wife) 
died Dec 1, 1816, aged 77 yrs; Mary 
(dau) died Dec 5, 1847, aged 83 yrs 7 mos; 
Mary (wife of Thomias Morrison) die'd 
Feb 26, 1760. aged 24 yrs: Samuel died 
(Jet 25. 1752. aged 17 yrs; Mrs. Jean 
died Oct 19. 1753, aged 53 yrs; Rebecca 
died July 7, 1828, aged 56 yrs; Alfred 
B. born Jan 22. 1857, died Jan 16, 1892; 
Samuel died Oct 19, 1851, aged 61 yrs: 
James Oliver Meriam (son of Ira G. 
and Diantha) died June 5. 1879. aged 

4 yrs 1 mo; John died March 13. 1851. 
aged 81 yrs; Sarah D. (his wife) died 
Feb 8. 1873, aged 69 yrs 3 mos; Halbert 
(son) died Jan 10. 1831. aged 2 yrs 7 mos: 
John died Jan 10. 1836, ageid 52 yrs; 
Sarah (his wife) died Feb 9, 1871, aged 
91 yrs; John died June 9, 1852, aged 72 
yrs: Jannebte R. (his wife) died Sept 
8, 1851, aged 74 yrs: Ann (wife of 
Squire John Morrison) died Feb27,1825, 
laged 68 yrs; Susanna F, (dau of John 
and Jannette Morrison) died March 28, 
1811. aged 28 yrs; James (son of John 
and Jannette MoiTison) died Dec 25. 
1820, aged 32 yrs; Mary died Nov 12, 
1835. aged 78 yrs; Jane died Dec 16. 
1843. ageid 88 yrs; Thomas died April 2. 
1804, aged 57 yrs; Dea Samuel died 
June 21, 1802, aged 92 yrs; Jennet (his 
wife) died Jan 8, 1800. aged 87 yrs; 
Elder Robert died Feb 7. 1794, aged 80 
yrs; Williaim died Feb 28. 1788. aged 
62 yrs: Joseph died April 16, 1814, aged 
72 yrs; Harriet E. (wife of Lucian 
George and dau of Joseph and Jane 
Morrison) died Aug 2. 1851. aged 25 yrs 
7 moiS. 

MORROW, Elizabeth died Sept 17, 1728, 

aged 56 yrs. 
MORSE, Humphrey (son of Robert and 

Alice Morse) died July 7, 1804, aged 

5 yrs 7 mos; Mary died 1804; Robert 
Jr. died Oct 13. 1847, aged 31 yrs; 
Joseph died Sept 25, 1828, aged 24 yrs; 
Doctor Moody (physician of LoTidon- 
derry) died May 7, 1830, aged 90 yrs; 
Moody died Nov 6, 1889, aged 82 yrs 
2 mos: Alice G. Burnham (wife of 
Robert Morse) died July 3, 1876, aged 
24 yrs 10 mos; Joseph (son of Moody 
and Hannah Moree) died July 10, 1860, 
aged 18 yrs 4 mos; Mary E. (dau) died 
Sept 18. 1866, aged 21 yrs 8 mos; 
Jd.^ihua born April 1, 1824, died Dec 11, 
1887: Dea Robert born March 8, 1776, 
died March 17, 1855; Alice D. (wife) 
born June 1, 1780, died Dec 2, 1868; 
Arthur {:srm of Nathan a.nd Lydia 
Morse) d5ed Oct 18, 1857, aged 3 mos 
1 dy; Alberta (dau) died Oct 24 1857, 
aged 3 mois 7 dys; Lydia A. (wife of 
Nathan Morse) died Oct 27, 1857, aged 
22 yrs 8 mos 21 dys; Hattie Ann (dau) 
d!i<?d Feb 28, 1863, aged 2 yrs 5 mos 1 dy: 
Luther Waterman (son) died May 18, 
1865, aged 1 yr 5 mos 5 dys. 

MORTON. Reverend James minister 
of Glasgow is buried without dates: 
his diaughter whose name is not 
mentioned died June 12, 1746. 

MOSES. Abby C. (see Boyd.) 

MOIILTON, Asa D. died Aug 15, 1852. 
aged 61 yrs; Harmah K. (his wife) died 
May 22. 1860, aged 69 yrs. 



MITRDOCK, Charlie H. died Jan 15, 
1874, aged 1 yr 4 mos; Lucy M. (wife 
of John C. Murdocli) born Nov 20, 
1844, died Sept 22, 1879. 

NEAL, John died Nov 21, 17S8, aged 45 
yrs. 

NBSMITH, Martha Hunt (wife of 
James Nesmiith) died Aug 12, 1846, 
aged 24 yrs 8 mos; Jane (wife of Dea. 
James Nesmith) died Feb 28, 1822, 
aged 82 yrs; Mary (dau of JameB and 
Mary Nesmith) died March 23, 1778, 
aged 10 mos. 

NebMI'I'H. monument: John died 
Nov 9, 1844, aged 78 yrs, (who mar- 
ried Susan Hildreth) died 1813, aged 
.36 yrs; Lydia Sargent (2d wife of 
John Nesmith) their first child died 
Aprilia, 1856, aged 6 yrs; John P.; Isa- 
bella A.; Susan H.; Samuel H.; James 
P. died at Matanzas April 21. 1834. 
aged 27 yrs; Mary died Feb 21. 1869, 
aged 60 yrs; Thomas, Elizabeith, 
dren of 2d wife; Albert S. died April 
1. I860, aged 11 yrs; Charles E.;* 
Thomas died Nov 30, 1789, aged 58 yr."^; 
Anni^Wilson (his wife) died Jan 4, 
1824, aged 82 yrs; John (son) nuarried 
Lucy Martin; El.zabeth (dau) mar- 
ried Jonathan Wallace. She died at 
Essex, N. Y. ; Thomias died in infancy; 
John died Feb 4. 1806: Lucy Martin 
(whose fii-st husband was John Nes- 
mith afterward married Daniel Mc- 
Keen) she died Feb 2, 1837, aged 72 
yrs, her children by first marriage: 
Jacob M.. Thomas. Elizabeth (who 
married Alexander Park) died at 
Windham Jan 18. 1836. aged 44 yrs; 
John. James W.. Lucy (who married 
John Patten) died April 22. 1848. aged 
49 yrs: Annis. married William David-")' 
son. George R. Jonathan W. died at 
Somei-sville Nov 2. 1847, aged 42 yrs; 
Eliza G. P. (wife of James W. Nes- 
mith) died Aug 28, 1865. aged 58 yrs: 
their children were: James Augus- 
tus died Sept 23, 1845, aged 11 yrs; 
James Nesmith emigrated from the 
north of Ireland in 1718, and with 15\ 
other families were the original set- ^ 
tiers of Londonderry, N. H., in 1719, 
he died in 1767. aged 75 yrs; his wife, 
Elizabeth dau of Rev. James Mc- 
Keen died 1763, aged 67 yrs. Their 
children were: Arthur who settled 
in the south ptart of Londonderry and 
afterward removed to Maine; James 
who settled in the north part of Lon- 
donderry, John who settled in the 
south part of Londonderry, and mar- 
ried Elizabeth Reid, Thomas who set- 
tled in the south part of Londonderry 
and married Annis Wilson. Elizabeth 
John died 1815, aged 87 yrs; Eliza- 
beth (his wife) died 1793, aged 64 yrs. 
Their children were: James who mar- 
ried Elizabeth Brewster and Arthur 
M.. Mary Duncan. John who mar- 
ried Susan Hildreth and Lydia Sar- 
gent, Ebenezer who married Jane 
Troler; Thomas died 1815, aged 40 yrs; 
Elizabeth who married James Pink- 
erton, Mary who inaiTied John Mil- 
timoie, Jane who married John Mil- 
derson. 

NICHOLS. Mrs. Ann (wife of William 
Nichols) died Nov 6, 1758, aged 58 yrs; 
Helen A. (wife of Edward L. Emery) 
(q. v.); Andrew J. born June 26, 1841, 
died May 28, 1883; Francis W. died 
July 24. 1869. aged 39 yrs 9 mos; Re- 
becca (his wife) died Jan 11. 1882. 
aged 50 yrs 2 mos 27 dys; Cora (dau 
of F. W. and R. J. Nichols) died Jan 
16, 1882, aged 23 yrs 4 mos 15 dys; 
Joseph B. died March 31, 1867, aged 
■68 yrs 1 mo; Emily W. (his wife) died 
July 28. 1877. aged 77 yrs 1 mo; Eph- 
raim E. born Nov 23. 1841, died 
May 7, 1889; Emily C. died June 11. 
1872, aged 33 yrs; Jonathan died Feb 
28. 1868, aged .85 yrs 6 mos 11 dys: 



u<^ 



WIL LEY'S Book OP NUTFJPLD. 



Charlotte (his wife) died Jan 6, 1859, 
aged 76 yrs 6 mos 9 dys; Mary died 
Aug 18, 1840, aged 36 yrs; Clarissa 
Morrill died July 15, 1885, aged 77 yrs; 
James died May 29, 1831, aged SO yrs; 
Margaret (wife of John Kinkaid) 
died March 11, 1823, aged 90 yrs; 
Mary (wife of James Nichols) died 
Dec 5, 1848, aged 74 yre; James (son 
of James and Mary Nichols) died Nov 
6, 1822, aged 12 yrs; Ellsworth P. (son 
of Jonathan P. and Sally Nichols) 
died Dec 7, 1835, aged 4 yrs 6 mos; 
Woodburn died Oct 20, 1851, aged 56 
yrs 6 mos; Eliza K. (his wife) died 
July 24, 1872. aged 72 yrs; Jonathan 
L. (son) died Oct 26, 1841, aged 16 yrs 
5 mos; Sarah G. died Aug 20, 1864, 
aged 37 yrs; Leonard Day (son of 
Samuel and Jane Nichols) died June 
6, 1851, aged 24 yrs 11 mos 24 dys; 
Helen A. (dau of Charles E. and Car- 
oline Nichols) died March 25, 1871, 
aged 71 yrs 7 mos 5 dys; Jonathan P. 
Co. I, 4th N. H. Reg. died Oct 25, 1871, 
aged 40 yrs 9 mos 15 dys; John K. 
died May 19, 1878, aged 59 yrS Aman- 
da B. died June 19. 1885. aged 28 yrs 
7 mos; Alexander died Jan 21, 1775, 

aged 48 yrs; Mrs. Margaret 

Margaret (dau of William and Abi- 
gail Nichols) died Dec 31, 1799, aged 
18 yrs. 
NOWELL. Nathaniel died April 15, 
1843, aged 75 yrs; Frederick died May 
20, 1863, aged 42 yrs 6 mos; Betsey 
Ann (his wife) died Sept 7, 1862, aged 
JO yrs 5 mos; Capt. Nathaniel died 
Feb 6. 1832, aged 87 yrs; Jane (his 
wife) died March 4, 1839, aged 92 yrs; 
Jane (dau) died Aug 28. 1814. aged 44 
yrs; Elizabeth (dau) died March 27. 
1822. aged 44 yrs; Joseph N. (son) 
died Oct 11, 1791. aged 19 yrs; Samuel 
died Jan 14. 1850, aged 76 yrs. 
NOTES. Moses died Nov 19. 1868, aged 
76 yrs; Sally Wyatt (his wife) died 
June 17, 1884, aged 86 yrs; Ira Wes- 
ton (son) died Sept 10. 1845, aged 24 
yrs 8 mos; Marietta J. (d'au) died Feb 
12. 1861. aged 28 yrs 1 mo; Frances 
Sidney (son) died Jan 9. 1860. aged 22 
yrs 6 mos; Sophronia I. (dau) died 
Dec 21, 1841, aged 2 yrs 3 mos; Annie 
E. Scott (wife of Rev. James Noyes) 
born June 21, 1837, died Dec 4, 1875. 
ORAM. William H. died Feb 15, 1865, 
"aged 72 yns 6 mos; Hannali H. (his 
wife) died Dec 18, 1877, aged 86 yrs 4 
mos. 
ORDWA.Y, Enoch died July 2, 1827, 
aged 64 yrs; Dorothy (his wife) died 
Sept 19, 1835, aged 69 yrs; Mary E. 
(wife of Enoch Ordway Jr.) died Oct 
18. 1836, aged 30 yrs. 
OSGOOD, Anna died March 4, 1870, aged 

68 yrs. 
ORK. William died Aug 4. 1775. aged 67 
yrs; Jean (his wife) died March 29, 
1799. aged 78 yrs; James died March 
28. 1797. aged 35 yrs; Susanna died 
Dec 17. 1773. aged 15 yrs; John (son 
of James and Lucy Orr) died Feb 22. 
1802. aged 11 yrs; Joan (dau of James 
and Lucy Orr) died June 22. 1816, aged 
19 yrs. 
PARK. Elizabeth N. (wife of Alexander 
Park) died Jan IS. 1836. aged 44 yrs; 
Margaret (2d wife of Alexander Park) 
died May 11. 1752, aged 61 yrs. 
PAGE. John M. died May 16, 1863, aged 
31 yrs 13 dys; Daniel P. died Nov 8, 
1869, aged 72 yrs 2 mos; Mary (his 
wife) died July 10. 1846. aged 39 yrs. 
PALMER. David C. died April 26, 1883. 
aged 74 yrs; Mary (his wife) died 
Sept 2.5. 1887, aged .80 yrs; Sally died 
Nov 14. 1893, aged .88 yrs 6 mos; Na- 
thaniel died Jan 4, 1888, aged 93 yrs 
8 mos; John died Aug 29, 1828, aged 39 
yrs; John died April 14, 1834, aged 79 
yrs; Sarah fhis v/ifel died April 27 



1834, aged 69 yrs; Benjamin died Dec 
8, 1838, aged 72 yrs; Elizabeth Carle- 
ton (his wife) born Nov 5. 1768, died 
April 15, 1860; Wallace H. (son of John 
M. and Mary E. Palmer) born Dec 1. 
1858, died July 13, 1892; John T born 
Aug 12. 1867. died Jan 4, 1868; Meriam 
E. (dau of C. F. and L. A. Evelyn 
Palmer) died April 14, 1890, aged 2 yrs 
2 dys; Evelyn (dau) died Feb 25, 1894, 
aged 4 mos 10 dys; Eleder James died 
Feb IS, 1829, aged 94 yrs; Marv (his 
wife) died Oct 9, 1818, aged 83 yrs; 
Thomas died Oct 17, 1802, aged 25 yrs; 
James born Oct 23, 1796, died Aug 16, 
1878; Elizabeth Crocker (wife of Dea 
James Palmer) died Oct 22, 1854, aged 
54 yrs; Thomas died in Boston July 
24, 1S67, aged 62 yrs 9 mos; Hannah 
Holbrook (his wife) died in Boston 
Feb 10, 1864, aged 61 yrs 6 mos; Eliz- 
abeth C. (their dau and wife of Ben- 
jamin Crowley) died June 27, 1864, 
aged 31 yrs 7 mos; Willliam H. (son) 
died Jan 4. 1864, aged 27 yrs; Benja- 
min (son) died Jan 27, 1871, aged 31 yrs 
11 mos; Thomas Holbrook (eldest son) 
2d Mass. Battery born Dec 16, 1834, 
died Feb 8, 1877; Mabel Hannah (dau) 
born Nov 21, 1867, died Oct 22, 1872; 
John Cowdin (son) born March 30, 
1871, died Dec 13, 1874; Thomas Hol- 
brook Jr. born Feb 19, 1876, died Feb 
24. 1881. 
PARKER. Rev. Edward L.. for forty 
years pastor of the First Presbyte- 
rian church in Derry. died July 14. 

1850. aged 65 yrs. Diligent in business, 
fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; 
Mehitable K. (his wife) died June 19. 
1852. aged 70 yrs; Harriet Mehitable 
(dau of Rev. Edward L. and Mehita- 
ble Parker) died March 9. 1817, aged 
27 yrs 6 mos; Edward P. died April 8, 
1878, aged 61 yrs; Frank W. born May 
10, 1846, died Dec 21, 1887; Charles C. 
died June 17, 1869. aged 51 yrs; Sarah 
Taylor (his wife) died Jan 5. 1880, aged 
58 yrs; George (son of James A. and 
Susan C. Parker) died Jan 19, 1844, 
aged 4 mos; Susan Anderson (dau) 
died Sept 25, 1842, aged 1 yr 7 dys; 
Dea. Nathaniel died May 31. 1850. aged 
69 yrs; Lois M. (his wife) died Feb 16, 

1851, aged 65 yrs; George Coffin (son) 
died Sept 9. 1840, aged 14 yrs; John J. 
died June 28. 1878, aged 43 yrs 5 mos 
1 dy; John H.. Co. B. 13th N. H. Vols., 
killed at Cold Harbor. Virginia. June 
1, 1864, aged 18 yrs; John murdered at 
North Andover, Mass.. Dec 19, 1863. 
aged 42 yrs. (This stone erected by 
his dau Lucy); Elizabeth (wife of 
John Parker) died Nov 9, 1872, aged 
42 yrs. 

PATTEN, Lucy Nesmith (wife of John 
Patten) died April 22. 1848. aged 49 yrs; 
Martha (wife of Robert Jeffers) (q. v.)-. 
John died June 14. 1786, aged 59 yrs; 
Jane (his wife) died Sept 13, 1813, aged 
84 yrs; Dea. John died Dec 19, 1866, 
aged 68 yrs; Mary J. Clark (second 
wife) died April 28. 1881, aged 74 yrs; 
Capt. Samuel died May 17. 1843. aged 
76 yrs; Mary (his wife) died May 19, 
1852, aged 79 yrs. 

PARSHLEY, Seth W. died Jan 31. 1871, 
aged 59 yrs 1 mo 5 dys; Lavina N. 
Floyd (wife of George A. Parshley) 
born 1840. died 1881. 

PARSONS. Caroline M. (wife of Rev. 
E. G. Parsons) died Jan 1, 1862, aged 
42 yrs; Frances A. (dau) died May 23, 
1843. aged 2 yrs. 

PATTERSON. James (son of Peter and 
Grisel Patterson) died Aug 1, 1767, 
aged 4 mos; Sarah (dau) died Aug 14 
1750, age'd 1 yr; Samuel died Aug i. 
1755. aged 59 yrs; Susanna (dau of 
James and Rachel Patterson) died 
Dec 14, 1764, aged 2 yrs S mos; James 
(son of James and Rachel Patterson) 
died Nov 27, 17.54, aged 1 yr; Jean (dau) 



died Oct 12, 17,50, aged 8 yrs; Samuel 
(son) died Aug 26, 1750, aged 5 yrs 6 
mos; James Betton (son of David and 
Sarah Patterson) aied Feb 23, 1788, 
aged 6 yrs 5 mos 23 dys. 
PAUL, Matthew died June 23. 1832, aged 
49 yrs; Mary (his wife) died July 29, 
1S64, aged 81 yrs; Thomas (their son) 
died Jan 2, 1839, aged .30 ysr; Mary 
(dau of James Paul) died June 22, 
1759. aged 4 yrs; Thomas (son of James 
and Margaret Paul) died May 26, 1761, 
aged 11 yrs; James (son) illegible. 
PAYNE, Little Johnny (son of J. B. and 
Amanda Payne) died Jan 21. 1855, aged 
5 yrs 4 mos; Bertha May (dau of John 
P. and Anna M. Payne) died July 19, 
1881, aged 10 mos 3 dys; Frank Eugene 
(son) died April 26, 1881, aged 8 mos 
PEABODY, Betsey (wife of Brinsley 
Peabody) died Nov 17, 1848, aged 93 
yrs 3 mos. 
PEASLEY, Miary died June 13, 1870. 

aged 34 yrs. 
PERKINS, Spencer died Feb 14, 1888 

aged 64 yrs 9 mos 4 dvs. 
PETTEE, Seneca 1818—1887, (on a black 

granite cube.) 
PERKINS, Stephen S. (son of John and 
Mary Perkins) died Sept 9, 1827, aged 
2 yrs. 
PERHAM, Roibert died March 5, 1861, 
aged 78 yrs; Jane (his wife) died Nov 8, 
1846, aged 60 yrs; Rev. Etbridge died 
March 7, 1878. aged 66 yrs 7 mos; Mary 
(his wife) died Aug 20. 1854, aged 36 yrs- 
Charles A. (son) died Sept 1, 1870, aged 
19 yrs. 
PILLSBURY, Thomas iborn April 9 
1823, died Feb 26, 1875; Mary Ann (his 
wife); Arthur Fuller (son) born Nov 9 
1857, died Feb 21. 1875; Clara Ann (dau) 
born April 19. 1847. died Aug 12 1854- 
Capt. Eliphalet died Feb 25. 1823. aged 
73 yre; Elizabeth (his wife) died May 18, 
1832, aged 77 yrs; Moses C. Esq. diecl 
June 28. 1848, aged 70 yrs; Lois C. (his 
wife) died Dec 3, 1834, aged 53 yrs- 
Mehitable Crocker (wife of Moses c' 
Pillsbury Esq.,) died Aug 5, 1877, aged 
82 yrs. 
PINKERTON. Elizabeth Nesmith (wife 
of James Pinkerton); James died Sept 
16. 1863. aged 83 yrs; Hannah (his wife) 
ched Jan 26. 1862. aged 76 yrs; George 
W. Jr.. born March 18, 1846, died Oct 6 
1886, (black granite shaft— polished) 
George W. Pinkerton 1809—1879; Eliza- 
beth N. P. (his wife) 1813-1894; Mar- 
tha (dau) 1850— 1871— on a rough uncut 
granite boulder; John Morrison died 
Feb 6, 1881, aged 63 yi-s; (a pla.in 
slab witlh nothing to indicate that 
■he wa s the liberal benefactor 
of Pinkerten academy in tihe en- 
dbwment of two hundred thou- 
'sand dollars); Elizabeth Aiken 
died March 23, 1877, age d65 ws. (she 
was the wife of Herbeson Pinkerton) - 
David Herbeson died July 3. 1S71, aged 
56 yrs; John (son of David Herbeson 
and Elizabeth A. Pinkerton) died 
March 7, 1871, aged 22yrs;Chaa-le3(son) 
died Nov 23, 1848, aged 5 vrs; Bessie 
(dau) died May 14, 1856, aged 3 mos- 
William Wallace (son) died Oct 10, 
1883, aged 37 yrs; Rebecca W. (wife of 
Perkins A. Hodge) died Sept 23. 1867 
aged 56 yrs; (Children James P. Hodge 
died July 7. 1S42, aged S yrs, and Fran- 
ces R. Hodge died Nov 17. 1839, aged 
3 yrs); Jane (wifeof JoshuaAiken) died 
Oct 1, 1871. aged 75 yrs; Clarissa (wife 
of Robert Emerson Little) died Sept 
22, 1880, aged 77 yrs; Henry A. Little 
(son) born July 20, 1829, died Jan 19 
1893. 
PLIMPTON, Sophia died June 27 1,8:30 

aged 28 yrs. 
POOR, Capt. John C. died July 3, 1884, 
aged 87 yrs; Susain W. (his wife) died 
April 6, 1851, aged 54 yrs. 



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347 



PORTER Monument— Squire John and 
others; Helen M. H. died Nov 27. 1857, 
aged 18 yrs. 
POWELL, Re\-. Geoge C. born March 25. 
1821, died May IS, 1878; Annie E. (his 
wife) born Aug 25, 1823, died Sept 2. 
1885. 
PRENTICE, Hon. John died May 18, 
1808, aged 61 yrs; Ruth (his first wife) 
died July 20. 1791, aged 42 yrs; Tabitha 
(his second wife) died Aug 21, 1806, 
aged 37 yrs; John (son) died 1770, in- 
fant; Susan (diau) died 1792, agedl9yrs; 
Hannah (dau) died 1793. aged 20 yrs; 
Ruth Lemon (dau) died 1794. infant; 
Mary died 1796. infant; Hannah 2d. 
died 1798. infant; Johm 2d. died April 
9, 1801. aged 1 yr; George died Feb 1806. 
infant: John 3d. (son) died Dec 14, 1823. 
aged 22 yrs; Nailhan'iel P. S. died Nov 
19. 1828. aged 26 yrs. 
PRESSEY. Albert Leslie (son of Albert 
and Amelia Pressey) died Sept 18. 1867. 
aged 1 yr 8 dys; Lemuel H. died Nov 
11. 1868, aged 9 yrs 8 mos 22 dys. 
PRIEST. John H. died July 17, 1878, 
aged 27 yrs 5 mos; James died June 
28, 1892, aged 79 yrs; "Passed to the 
Spirit Life." 
PROCTOR. Jacob died Feb 8. 1836. aged 
61 yrs; Lois (his wife) died Dec 21, 
1851. aged 66 yrs 2 mos; Jacob 3d died 
April 9, 1836. aged 26 yrs; Joseph died 
Feb 7, 1826. aged 48 yrs; Mary (his 
wife) died April 3, 1847, aged 70 yrs; 
BenjaminrEsQ. died Feb 10, 1S48, aged 
61 yrs; Rachel (his wife) died May 19, 
1826, aged 39 yrs; Isaac (son) died 
Aug 17, 1822, aged 2 yrs 7 mos; Louisa 
died Nov 5. 1857, aged 47 yrs; Isaac 
(son of Capt. Benjamin and Eleanor 
Proctor) died Aug 11, 1833, aged 3 yrs 
7 mos; Silas died April 13, 1854, aged 
76 yrs 7 mos; Betsey A. (his wife) died 
Aug 28, 1863, aged 70 yrs 6 mos; Joseph 
died March 23, 1824, aged 73 yrs; Han- 
nah (his wife) died Alarch 22, 1807, 
aged 58 yrs; Eunice (2nd wife) died 
Oct 14, 1827, aged 69 yrs; Clara Emma 
(dau of Alexis and Emma Proctor) 
died Feb 18, 1858, aged 4 yrs 9 mos; 
Benjamin D. (son) died Nov 8. 1851. 
aged 6 mos 3 dys. 
RADCLIFFE. Harriette Augusta (dau 
of Charles B. and Adeline S. Rad- 
cliffe) died April 2. 1852, aged 11 mos. 
RAMETTI. Jessie (wife of John L. Cun- 
ningham) born Nov 20. 1852. died Oct 

4, 1893. 

RAMSEY. Hugh died Nov 11, 1787, aged 
60 yrs; Lydia (his wife) died Dec 23, 
1763, aged .36 yrs; Ann (dau) died Aug 

5. 1751. aged 7 mos. 

RAND. Samuel Nowell (son of Jere- 
miah and Mary Rand) died Sept 14, 
1829. aged 11 wks. 

RANKIN, Mary (wife of William Ran- 
kin, dau of John Tolford) died Oct 30, 
1756, aged 22 yrs; Hugh died Jan 6, 
1755, aged 81 yrs; Mary (wife of Alex- 
ander Rankin) died Nov 27, 1765, aged 
81 yrs; Agnes (dau of Alexander and 
Mary Rankin) died June 12, 1751, aged 
24 yrs. 

REDFTELD. John Henry (son of 
Wyllys and Louisa) died Sept 7. 1833. 
aged 15 mos: Mary Ann (wife of Will- 
iam E. Kimball and dan of Charles 
and Rptsey Redfleld) died Oct 31. 1838. 
aged 23 yrs B mos; George died Feb 11, 
1869. aged 43 yrs; Frederick H. died 
Nov 17. 18S0. aged 57 yrs; Nathaniel 
Brown born Sept 8. 179S. died March 
26, 1870: Martha (his wife) born Nov 7, 
1808, died Aug 24, 1872. 

REID, Mary E. Adams (wife of Orison 
G. Reid) died May 18. 1SS9. aged 36 
yrs 4 mos 26 dys; Infant (child); M. E. 
(child); David died Dec 22. 1834, aged 
70 yrs: Martha McMurphy (his wife 
and dau of Archibald and Isabella 
McMurphy) born July 9. 1770, died 
1854; Mary J. (dau) born Nov 2, 1811; 
35 



died aged 2 yrs 8 mos 20 dys; James 
M. (son) born June 4. 1809, died 1840; 
Capt. Stephen Holland died March 21, 
1835, aged 35 yrs; General George died 
Sept 17, 1815, aged 82 yrs; Mary (his 
wife) died April 7. 1823. aged 88 yrs; 
James (son) died in London May 6, 
1827, aged 60 yrs; John (son) died in 
Philadelphia Dec 8. 1834, aged 63 yrs; 
Stone to these four persons erected 
by Elizabeith McGregor; John died 
Feb 12, 1803, aged 58 yrs; James died 
Nov 1, 1755, aged 60 yrs; Mary (his 
wife) died Feb S. 1775, aged 76 yrs; In 
the same lot with the General were 
these three just mentioned and the 
following one of which a more par- 
ticular description is given; a large 
horizontal slab on four pillars, or- 
namented with figures of a skull 
and crossed bones, an hour glass and 
a coffin in a square, above the square 
of emblems the words "Memento 
Mori;" on the right of the square the 
words "O mors quam dura, quam 
tristia sunt tua jura;" on the left of 
the sq-uare the words; "Si mors non 
e.s.set quam laeitus que libet fiat;" and 
below the square the words: "Here 
lyeth the body of John Reid who de- 
parted this life on the 7th day of 
November in the year of Our Lord 
1738, being 14 yrs and 9 mos old " 
REEDHEAD, widow Adelia died Dec 
28, 1847, aged 72 yrs; Catherine A 
Hyde (her dau) died Dec 14, 1843 
aged 31 yrs. 
REYNOLDS. Alfred died March 25 
1861. aged 49 yrs 3 mos; Maria l' 
Gushing (his wife) died Oct 15, 1857, 
aged 33 yrs; Sarah (wife of Thomas K 
Reynolds) died July 30, 1813, aged 60 
yrs; Thomas K. died at Lowell June 
13, 1845, aged 64 yrs; Adeline Ann 
(dau) died in Boston Feb 9, 1839, aged 
24 yrs; Col. Daniel died Dec 13. 1795 
aged 53 yrs; Hannah (his wife) died 
Jan 23. 1829, aged S3 yrs; Betsy (dau) 
died March 5, 1817, aged 33 yrs; Eliza 
(dau of Stephen and Sarah Reynolds) 
died June 14, 1S44, aged 27 yrs; Co! 
Stephen died April 15, 1.S4S. aged SO 
yrs; Sarah (his wife) died Sept 19 
1860. aged 75 yrs; Hannah (wife of 
William Reynolds) died Nov 27 1850 
aged 32 yrs. 
RICE. Henry F. born Oct 24, 1837- 
Amanda N. Blye born Sept 25, 1837* 
died Aug 5, 1891. 
RICHARDSON. Charles (son of Caleb 
and Julia) died Jan 26. 1S49. aged 3 
yrs; James died May 4, 1S41, aged 44 
yrs 4 mos 19 dys; Mary H. (his wife) 
died Nov 7. 1836, aged 38 yrs 10 mos 8 
dys; Adeline (dau) died June 6, 1842, 
aged 5 yrs 7 mos 19 dys. 
RILEY. Eliza Ann (dau of James and 
Ann Riley) died Jan 17. 1856. aged 7 
yrs 9 mos. 
RING. May (dau of Dexter and Helen 
Ring) born Oct 12, 1887, died Sept 4, 
1S93. 
ROBBINS, Isabella Banks (wife of 
John Bobbins) died Jan 26, 1893, aged 
69 yrs 5 mos; John W. (son) died 
June 3. 1S75. aged 16 yrs 11 mos; Isa- 
bella J. (dau) died Dec 9. 1865, aged 
9 yrs 1 mo 17 dys. 
ROBIE. Darwin T. died Nov 11. 1877, 
aged 27 yrs; Louise S, died Aug 15. 
1887. aged 60 yrs 8 mos 18 dys. 
ROGERS. Robert (the Ranger) (two 
other stones illegible); Sargent died 
July 1, 1S46, aged 76 yrs; Phebe (his 
wife) died Oct 31. 1847. aged 75 yrs; 
David (son of Capt. James and Mar- 
garet Rogers) died Nov 2. 1766, aged 
4 yrs; Hugh died arch 24, 1763. aged 
80 yrs; Jean (his wife) died Feb 28. 
1756. aged 63 yrs: Jean (dau) died Jan 
19, 1755, aged 22 yrs; Capt. William 
died May 13. 1817. aged 47 yrs; Robert 
died Oct 2, 1878, aged 83 yrs 6 mos; 



Sarah Lane (his wife) died June 29, 
1S82, aged 85 yrs 6 mos; George a' 
(son) died July 26. 1840, aged 5 yrs 4 
mos. 

ROLFE, Joseph died July 1, 1781 aged 
53 yrs; Anna (his wife) died Aug 23, 
1826, aged 88 yrs. 

ROLLINS, George F. born Feb 16 
1868, died April 18. 1890: Sewell P (of 
Deerfield. N. H.) born March 14, 1807 
died Sept 1, 1S8S; Sophronia C (Ms' 
wife) born Dec 7, 1809, died May 10, 
1891, 

ROWE, Sarah E. (wife of William 
Cogswell) born East Kingston, died 
in Derry July IS. 1S49, aged 33 yrs 

SALTMARSH, Freddie F. (son of J F 
fl!^ ^- ^}- S'altmarsh) died June is], 
1875. aged 6 yrs 10 mos 21 dys 

SANDERS. Gei >rge B. died Sept 3 1849 
aged 92 yrs; Ella M. (wife of Charles 
b. banders) died Sept 3, 1884. aged 33 

?'7^,!.'P'^^' ^"""^ ^- M- 'da-u) died Aug 
31, 1886, aged 11 yrs 2 mos. 

SARGENT monumeht fine granite 
shaft— 7 names: Charles born Dec 25 
1779. died May 27, 1829; Eleanor CLark 
(his wife) born Apr.I 11, 1780, died Oct 
12, 1S70; Mary C. born Dec 13, 1806 
died Feb S, 1877, Eliza (wife of John 
^^nnoble) born Sept 19. 1811, died June 
17, 1878; Charles born April 8, 1822 
died Sept 11, 1848; Hiram bcrn Dec U 
1809, died June 6, 1882; Simon born 
Dec 14, 1809, died Aug 15, 1885; Moses 
died Jan 5, IS4S, aged 72 yrs; John dieci 
Dec 24, 1865, aged 51 yrs 6 rac?; John 
S. (son of Thomas and Sara* Sargenit) 
died Oct 2, 1842. aged 2 yrs 9 mos; 
Charles (son of Charles and Eleanor 
Sargenit) died Sept 11, 1848, aged 2a 
yrs; Charles died May 27, 1S29, aged 4a 
yrs. 
SAXTON, Harriet (wife of James O 
Buswell) died March 9, 1870, aged 67 
yrs. 
SAWYER, Joseph C. died Jan 6. 1864. 
aged 41 yrs; Leonora (his wife) died 
Jan 11. 1S74. aged 49 yrs 7 mos; Etta 
M. (dau of Thoma.s J. and Carrie M. 
Sawyer) died July 29, 1889, aged 11 
yrs 6 mos. 
SCOBEY, Mrs. Alice died Aug 29, 1753, 

aged 29 yrs. 
SCOTT. Annie E. (wife of Rev. James 
Noyes) born June 21, 1837, died Dec 4. 
1875. 
SEAVEY. Isaac L. died Oct 8, 1876. 
aged 59 yrs 7 mos; Mary H. (his wife> 
died Jan 16, 1885, aged 63 yrs. 
SENTER, Matthew born Feb 22, 1823, 

died May 15, 1881. 
SHATTUCK. Lizzie (wife of Daniel W. 
Shattuck) died March 16. 1885. age* 
23 yrs 11 mos 10 dys; Frank (son),- 
"Willie (son). 
SHEPARD, Edgar H. Co. H. 18th 
Reg. N. H. Vol. died in camp at Con- 
cord Mairch 6. 1S65. aged 21 yrs 10 
mos; William born July 28, 1779, dierT 
Jan 31, 1867; Lucy H. (his wife) born 
Jan 15, 1782, died Feb 7, 1862; Walter 
B. born Holderness. N. H. Dec 18. 
1S11. died in Derry Nov 17. 1880. 
SHELDON. Reuben E. Co. K. 3rd Reg. 

Mass. H. A., 1847 1S90; Fannie R. 

(dau of R. E. and C. E. Sheldon) born 
July 10. 1880. died Feb 8. 1890. 
SHIRLEY. William M. (son of James 
and Clara Shirley) died Sept 8. 1831, 
aged 3 yrs. 
SHT^MWAY. Annie M. (wife of Gifford 
A. Shumway) died Oct 9. 1885. aged 
23 yrs 10 mos; Gifford A. (son of Gif- 
ford A. and A. M. Shumway) died 
Oot 5. 1885. 
SHUTE. William B. died Sept 17. 1871. 
aged 75 yrs; Sarah (his wife) died Feb 
15. 1868. aged 72 yrs 5 mos; Elizabeth 
Ann (dau) died April 28. 1855. aged 
26 yrs; Sarah R. (dau) died Nov 30. 
1848. aged 24 yrs; Lucy J. (dau) died 
Aug 20, 1843, aged 23 yrs; John C. (son> 



348 



WILLEV'S BO OK OF NUTFIEL D. 



died May 16. 1846, aged 13 yrs 9 mos; 
Charles Edwin (son of George and 
Sarah Shuite) died Dec 22, 1871, aged 
22 yrs 3 imos; Arthur Lawrence (son) 
died Feb 11, 1854, aged 1 yr 4 mos 13 
<3ys; Geo'i-ge Kimball (son) died June 
18, 1836, aged 6 mos 20 dys; Jajmes Ed- 
win (son) died Feib 9, 1847. aged 1 yr 
2 mos ; Benjaminidied Doc 25, 1847, aged 
88 yrs; Retec^^a Boiardman (Wis wife) 
died Sept 5. 1802. aged 38 yrs; Lucy Orr 
(2d wife) dSed Feb 16. 1842, ag^d 73 yiis; 
Almira died Junie 11, 1842, aged 30 yrs; 
SMITH, Frank B. (son of Stephen and 
Julia B. Smith) died May 20, 1864, aged 
1 yr 10 mos 18 dys; Freddie A. (son) 
died Aug 19, 1875, aged 8 yrs 10 mos 
14 dys; Alden B. died Dec 14, 1886, aged 
49 yrs 2 mos 26 dys; A. B. Co. A., 1st 
N. H. Heavy Artillery; Andrei' (on 
large Tiortzontal slab) died Sept 30, 
1757, 'aged 26 yrs; James Sr. (cm large 
horizontal slab) died Sept 16, 1753, aged 
70 yrs; Samuel (on large horizontal 
slab) died May 19, 1852, aged 33 yrs; 
James Jr. (on large horizontal slab) 
died May 30. 1848, aged 25 yrs;— (These 
four slates and names ai-e noitable); 
Stephen born April 19. 1803. died June 
23, 1859; Angelina Cummings (his wife) 
born Jan IS, 1S02, died Feb 10. 1882; 
Julia Ann Maria born Dec 25, 1827, 
died Jan 1, 1829; Geoirge Washington 
born Sepit 1, 1831. died Jan 9. 1872; 
Charles Wesley born Mairch 29. 1843, 
died Feb 5. 1845; Addie M. (wife of 
Williaim J. Williams) born Dec 10. 
18.38. died May 30. 1879; Hattie May 
■Williams (dau of W. J. and A. M. 
Williams) born Feb 7, 1876, died Aug 
17. 1876. 
SMYLIE, Agnes (dau of Frances and 
Agnes SmyMe) died April 5. 1749. aged 
18 yrs. Tlhe Smylie sDone is of dark 
slate. V shape. o\-al top. round ears, 
ornamented with lineal tracei-y upon 
the top and sides. 
SPOLLETT. Samuel died March 30. 1847. 
aged 52 yrs; Hannah (wife of Freder- 
ick Spollett) died July 11. 1845. aged 46 
yrs; Abby V. (wife of Samuel Spollett) 
died Aug 9, 1866, aged 36 yrs 3 mos 17 
dys. 
STEARNS, John died Oct 16, 1888, aged 

54 yrs. 
STEELE, Thomas died Feb 22, 1748. 
aged 65 yrs; Martha (his wife) died 
Oct 29, 1759. aged 73 yrs; Thomas died 
Oct 12, 1746, aged 25 yrs; Samuel died 
Dec S. 1761, aged 32 yrs; Margaret 
(wife of James Steele) died March 1, 
1760, aged 31 yrs; Moses C, 1830 — 1890; 
Arthur G. died April 25, 1873, aged 5 
mos 1 dy; Albert H. (son of M. G. and 
M. S. Steele) died March 1. ISSn. 
STEVENS. Plummer died Feb 5. 1867. 
aged 59 yrs 3 mos 6 dys; Mary J. (his 
wife) died March 21. 1S73, aged 45 yrs 
2 mos 5 dys. 
STEWART. Abraham W. died Jan 3, 
1870. aged S3 yrs 5 mos; Betsey R. (hi.s 
wife) died Jan 9. 1868, aged" 77 yrs; 
Lucinda T. (dau) died Nov 27. 1844. 
aged 17 yrs; Mary P. (dau) died Sept 
14, 1834, aged 5 yrs; Jane (wife of John 
Stewart) died March 8, 1773. aged 59 
yrs. 
STUARD (?) John died April 6. 1741, 
aged 60 yrs; Mary (dau of John and 
Elizabeth Stuard) died Nov 7, 1737. 
aged 25 yrs; (Last two names on a 
large horizontal slab). 
STINSON. Robert died Jan 24, 1776. 
aged 21 yrs: Elizabeth — ; John died 
Sept 11. 1,S47. aged 66 yrs; Betsey (his 
wife) died Oct 28, 1861, aged 70 yrs; 
John died Feb 6, 1785. aged 89 yrs; 
Mary (his wife) died Oct 4. 1793, aged 
SO yrs; Sarah E. (dau of David and 
Elizabeth Stinson) died Aug 14, 1S75, 
aged 15 yrs 6 mos; Ida M. (dau) died 
Sept 3. 1874. aged 16 yrs 11 mos; Willie 
H. (son) died Sept 30. 1866, aged 3 yrs 



20 dys; Charles Henry (son) died Sept 

22, 1855, aged 5 mos 22 dys; Ella Fran- 
ces (dau) died Oct 6, 1853, aged 1 yr 11 
mos 15 dys; David died Oct 8, 1887, 
aged 66 yrs; Elizabeth (his wife) died 
Oct 2, 1873, aged 54 yrs 5 mos. 

SCOBEY. John (son of Joseph and 
Mary Scobey) died June 27. 1756, aged 
6 yrs; Jean (dau of the same) died 
May 21. 175S. aged 6 yrs; James (son) 
died May 8. 17,59. aged 4 yrs. 

STICKNET, Ebenezer died Oct 3, 1844, 
aged 64 yrs 9 mos; Hannah (his wife) 
died Feb 8, 1863, aged 84 vrs; Aaron 
F. (son) died Aug 19. 1810. aged 1 yr 
3 nios; Aaron F. (son) bora June is 
1816, died June 21, 1872; Marv C. (wife) 
born March 24, 1820, died March 27, 
1891, Abbie (dau) died May 9 1884 
aged 6 wks 3 dys; Abbie E. (dau) 
born 1845, died 1847; infant (child) 
born 1860, died 1860; infant (child) born 
1862. died 1S62. 

STORER. Thomas died July 9. 18.54 
aged 70 yrs. 

STOWBLL, Laura (wife of Capt. Jo- 
eiah Stowell) died Sept 11, 1825, aged 
27 yrs 1 mo 10 dys; Emeline Frances 
(dau) died Aug 1. 1825, aged 22 dys. 

TABER. Geoi-gie Emma (dau of J. E 
and L. Z. Taber) died Jan 23. 1894 
aged 4 mos 20 dys; Eben S. died May 

23. 1885, aged 81 yrs 11 mos; Sarah j 
(his wife) died Nov 23, 1883, aged 74 
yrs 7 mos. 

TAR BELL, Thomas B. died June 5, 
18S9. aged 63 yrs; Angeline C. (has 
wife) dlied Sept 23, 1891, aged 67 yrs- 
Thomas W. (son) died Sept 4, 1859, 
aged 7 mos, 

TAYLOR, Frank M. (son of Robert and 
Mary Taylor) born 1845, died 1880; 
Ida Lewis (his wife dau of John and 
Nellie E. Lewis) born 1849, died 1891- 
Mary M. (dau) born 1S77. dlied 1879; 
Robei't born 1818, died 1866; Jajnes 
died Sept 1, 1893, aged 85 vrs; Sarah 
(his wife) died March 20. 1889. aged 77 
yrs; Hattie L. (dau) died Dec 20. 1871 
aged 24 yrs 7 mos 16 dys; Walter d' 
(son) died Oot 24. 1871, aged 16 yrs 9 
mos 21 dys; Frank H. (son) died Sept 
20, 18<1, aged 21 yrs 10 mos 10 dys; 
Lyd.a Ann (wife of Frederick W 
Taylor) died Feb 2. 1862. aged 35 yrs 
9 mos; Robert born Aug 10. 1799, died 
Dec 16 1877; Elizabeth (wife of Robert 
Taylor) born Jan 1, 1800, died Jan 16 
1869; Helen A. (dau) died June 23 
1834, aged 13 dys; George H. born June 
18. 1819. died July 11. 1889; Curtis 
(ohiild); John A. (son of Lieut. John 
and Nancy Taylor) died April 26 
1818. aged 21 yrs; Sally (dau of the 
same) died Maroh 2. 1815. aged 21 yrs; 
Nancy (dau) died June 26. 180S. aged 
19 yrs; Ephraim (son) died Feb 28. 
1803, aged 4 yrs; John A. (son) died 
Feb 14. 1796, aged 2 mos 9 dys; Lieut 
John died Dec 13, 1825, aged 66 yrs; 
Robert died May 10, 1837, aeed 67 yrs; 
Dolly (his wife) died Nov 20. 1841, 
aged 60 yiis; Adam died Jan 26. 1834^ 
aged 64 yrs; Paul txirn 1811, died 
1884; Betsey A. born 1800. died 1885; 
Lieut Samuel P. died Aug 1. 1S30.' 
aged 50 yrs; Sarah (infant child) died 
Sept 25, 1813; Thomas P. (son of Lieut 
Samuel F. anid Margaret) died Sept 
22, 1825, aged 11 yrs; Harvey C. (son) 
died Sept 17. 1825. aged 7 vrs; John 
(son) died Sept 18. 1825, aged 3 yrs; 
James died May 4. 1849, aged 65 yrs; 
Gertrude D. Lackey died Aug 20, 1887, 
aged 11 yrs 6 mos; John (son of Wil- 
liam and Jane Taylor) died Aug 12, 
18.59, aged 28 yrs 3 mos S dys; Lu- 
oinda (dau) died June 6, 1855, "aged 18 
yrs 2 mos 14 dys; William died Dec 19, 
1838, aged 51 yrs 8 mos 20 dvs; Jane 
(His wife) died Aug 29, 1869. 'aged 70 
yrs 5 mos 14 dys; Lieut John died June 
14, 1824, aged 32 yrs 4 mos 8 dys; 



Helen Augusta (dau of Robert and 
Elizabeth) died June 23, 1834, aged 19 
mos 11 dys; Eliza Nesmith (dau of 
James and Sarah Taylor) died June 
25, 1848, aged 11 yrs 6 mos; Deacon 
Henry died April 27, 1865, aged 81 
yrs; Deacon James died April 6 1864 
aged 79 yrs; Persis Hemphill (his 
wife) died July 2, 185S, aged 71 yrs- 
Harriet (dau) died Dec 8, 1876, aged 
60 yi^s; Emma L. (dau) born Aug 25 
1827, died Dec 3, 1886; Willis I. 1845- 
1862; Elbrie I. 1855-1863; Martha B 
1849-1863; Frank A. 1844-1883; Helen 
L. 1847-1872; (Five children of John B 
Taylor) John B. bora Sept 12 1813 
died Feb 13. 1869; Lucinda (his wife) 
bora Oct 10, 1810, died Jan 1, 1885- 
John born Nov 29, 1781, died Feb 2o! 
1857; Judith B. (his wife) born April 
9. 17S9, died Nov 21, 1873; James C 
born March 16, 1834, died Jan 14, 1888- 
Blizabeth P. (his wife) living; Har- 
riet P. (his wife) died Nov 15, 1853. 
aged 26 yrs; Ella Eliza (dau) died 
Nov 25, 1853, aged 3 yrs; Henry Loren 
(son) died July 2, 1857. aged 5 yrs 6 
mos; Nathaniel M. died Oct 6. 1862. 
aged 52 vrs; Almira Adams (his wife) 
died March 29. 1881. aged 68 vrs; Sam- 
uel died June 1, 1803, aged 58 yrs; 
Sarah (his wife) died Nov 1, 1772. 
aged 20 yrs; Eunice (2d wife) died 
Sept 1, 1833, aged 84 yrs; Capt. Adam 
died April 13. 1806. aged 69 yrs; Mary 
(his -nife) died Aug 25. 1812, aged 70 
yrs; Jennette (dau of Samuel 
Taylor) died Jan 1, 1S06. aged 27 yrs; 
Mary died 1787. aged 18 mos; 3 "in- 
fants of one birth 1777. died (chil- 
dren of Samuel and Eunice Taylor); 
Matthew died Jan 12. 1770. aged 80 
yrs; Annis 'dau of Elder John Tay- 
lor) died March 31, 1837, aged 50 yrs; 
Sarah (wife of Charles C. Parker) (q. 
V.) 
THOMAS, Zylpha (wife of James 
Thomas) died Oct 20, 1868, aged 27 yrs. 
THOM, General George born In Minne- 
sota Feb 21, 1819, died at Washington, 
D. C. June 29. 1891. held cammlsskms 
In all military grades including that 
of Colonel and w-as brevetted Briga- 
dier General IT. S. A.; William Arthur, 
ensign U. S. Navy, born St. Paul. 
Minn., Sept 26, 1857, died in Ashevllle. 
N. C. Dec 11, 1S86; Mary Lucia Griffin 
(wife of Gen. George Thom) born 
Abbeville. S. C, Aug 21, 1830, died in 
Portland. Me.. Jan 15. 1881; George 
Langdon born Washington. D. C, 
Feb 2, 1853, died there Dec 15, 1864; 
Elizabeth H. born Portland, Me.. Oct 
15. 1865. died there Dec 28. 1866; Mary 
Ducla horn Fort Vancouver. Wasih., 
Nov 23. 1860. died in Derry June IS. 
1863; James Allen born Washington. 
D. C, July 12, 1855, died there April 
27, 1S64; William born Sept 5, 1821. died 
Sept 21. 1SS5; Julia St. Felix born 
Brooklyn. N. Y.. Feb 7. 1S31. died Feb 
S. 1893; Harriet E. (dau) born Brook- 
lyn, N. Y.. Nov 20. 1860, died Washing- 
ton, D. C. Nov 27. 1863; Mary Persis 
died Nov 17. 1844. aged 2 yrs; James 
died Nov 27. 1852. aged 67 yrs; Harriet 
C. (his wife) died June 19. 1873. aged 84 
yrs; James Jr.. died Nov 10. 1859. aged 
42 yrs; Isabel (dau of James and 
Elizabeth W. Thom) died Jan 18. 1869. 
aged 13 yrs 10 mos; Persis 1st died 
June 9, 1776, aged 2 yrs; Isaac 1st died 
Oct 16, 1777, aged 1 yr; Isaac 2d died 
Aug 2, 1827, aged 44 yrs; Nathaniel 
died at sea Sept 16. 1810. aged 22 yrs; 
George died July 19. 1S12. aged 20 yrs; 
Dr. Isaac, physician in Londonderry, 
died July 13. 1825. aged 79 yrs; Persis 
died June 23. 1821, aged 71 yrs; Chris- 
topher S. died Nov 6. 1841. aged^71 yrs; 
William S. died In New Orleans Nov 
19. 1812. aged 40 yrs; Persis married 
John Bell of Chester, she died March 



23, 1836, aged 71 yrs; Susan married 
John A. Harper of Meredith, he died 
June IS, 1S16, aged 36 yrs, she died Feb 
22, 1845, aged 64 yrs. 
THOMPSON. Benjamin died Jan 17, 
1759, aged 44 yrs; Mary (wife of Daniel 
Wilkins and granddaughter of Archi- 
bald and Isabella McMurphy) died 
Aug 17, 1839. aged 25 yrs 2 mos (she 
was dau of John and Isabella Thomp- 
son); John, drowned at Amoskeag 
Falls, May 31, 1827, aged 48 yrs 11 
mos; Isabella McMurphy (his wife 
and dau of Archibald and Isabella 
McMurphy) died Oct 13. 1S20, aged 40 
yrs 19 dys; Archiljald McMurphy (son 
of John and Isabella Thompson) died 
Jan 9, 1829, aged 12 yrs, (stone erected 
by his aunt. Mary Brewster); William 
died Aug 15. 1832, aged 51 yrs; Jane 
(his wife) died Dec 24, 1843, aged 62 yrs; 
William (son) died April 3, 1812, aged 
23 mos; Jane (dau) died March 27, ISIS, 
aged 9 yrs 8 mos; John (son) died Dec 
13, 1815, aged 21 mos; Lucy Ann (dau) 
died Dec 28. 1828, aged 1 yr; William 
died July 19. 1783, aged 54 yrs; Naomi 
Scobey (his wife) died Aug 20, 1803, 
aged 63 yrs; John H. Esq. died Jan 12, 
1845, aged 51 yrs; Anne Sarah (dau 
John H. and Abby P. Thompson) died 
Nov 30, 1S57, aged 14 yrs 4 mos 27 dys. 
THOMSON, Here lies interred the body 
of the Reverend Thomas Thomson, 
pastor over the flock in this town five 
years, who departed this life Septem- 
ber 22, Anno Domine 1738, in the 34th 
year of his age. (See Rev. William 
Davidson). 
THORNTON, James died Nov 7, 1754, 

aged 70 yrs. 
TITCOMB, Simeon died April 8, 1848, 
aged 84 yrs; Phoebe (his wife) died 
Dec 29, 1S43. aged 76 yrs; Eliza Jane 
(dau of Benaiah and Mary Jane Tit- 
comb) died Oct 16. 1846, aged 9 mos. 
TODD, Rachel died Aug 18. 1745, aged 
S3 yrs; Lieut. John died May 26, 1758, 
aged 23 yrs; Andrew died Oct 26, 1757, 
aged 5 yrs; Ebenezer died Oct 23, 
1757. aged 5 mos; Mary (dau of Capt. 
James and Elizabeth Todd) died Oct 
15, 1775, aged 8 yrs; Willie (son of the 
same) died Oct 22. 1775, aged 7 yrs. 
TRACY, Ellen Craig (wife of Patrick 
Tracy) died March 2. 1856, aged 71 yrs. 
TROY. Sarah C. born Sept 9, 1816, died 

Aug 12, 1873. 
TRUE, Levi died July 28. 1863, aged 27 
yrs; Infant child; John W. (son of 
Hale and Clara True) died Sept 2, 
1849. aged 2 yrs 8 mos; Henry W. (son) 
died Jan 30. 1859. aged 27 yrs 5 mos; 
Alvina J. died Oct 26. 1880, aged 16 yrs 
10 mos. 
TUCKER. Sarah died Aug 19. 1S43, aged 
2S yrs; Lieut. Gilbert A. 10th N. H. 
Infantry, born Jan 22. 1S31. died May 
11, 1884; Rolinda E. (his wife) born 
May 4, 1S21. died Dec 20. 1885; Alan- 
son died June 16, 1863, aged 86 yrs; 
Eliza Thorn (his wife) died Aug 12, 
1873, aged 83 yrs; Alanson died Dec 30, 
1881 aged 70 yrs; Helen (wife of Wil- 
liam Radcliffe) died Oot 8, 1870, aged 
45 yrs; Lewis S. Morris, who married 
a T-ucker. died Oct 6. 1872. aged 58 yrs. 
TUFFT, Joseph died Oct 27. 1767, aged 

3 yrs. 
UPTON, Lieut. George E. Co. F. N. H 
Vols. 1S32-1S64. (killed at Petersburg. 
Va., July 31; Mary J, (his wife) 1831- 
1S66; Mary A. (dau) 1859-1868. 
UNDERHILL, Ellis John born Aug 20 

1850, died Dec 2, 1879. 
TTNDERWOOD, George E. died Oct 15. 
1885, aged 35 yrs 6 mos; Marv E. (his 
wife) died Feb 15. 1886, aged 31 vrs 11 
mos. 
VANCE. Nancy (wife of William 
Vance) died Nov 14. 1816, aged 54 yrs; 
William (son of William and Nancy 
Vance) died 1783. aged 16 mos; John 



U'JLLErs BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 

died March 28, 1777, aged 82 yrs; Sarah 
(his wife) died April 19, 1778, aged 73 
yrs. 
WALKER, Robert (Elder in the church 
in Bradford) died Oot 10, 1777, aged 69 
yrs; Col. Seth, Revolutionary soldier 
and register of deeds many years 
died Oct 8, 1S38, aged 82 yrs; Temper- 
ance (wife of Col. Seth Walker) died 
at Exeter April 30, 1841, aged 83 yrs- 
Temperance (dau) born Nov 8, 1800 
died Feb 6, 1S73. 
WALLACE. Lieut. William died Nov 
16, 1S05, aged 80 yrs; Hanah (his wife) 
died Aug 17. 1814, aged 90 yrs; Mary 
(dau) died May 9. 1756, aged 2 yrs- 
Matthew (son) died Nov 2, 1775, agx;d 
3 yrs; Robert died April 9, 1818, aged 
88 yrs; Agnes (his wife) died June 13, 
1774, aged 35 yrs; Agnes (dau)- 
George died Jan 25. 1776, aged 30 yrs- 
Jamfrs died Sept 12, 1745, aged 15 yrs- 
Dr. Thomas (phy.sician) died Oot 11,' 
1863. aged 71 yrs; Martha (his wife) 
died Dec 18, 1865. aged .57 yre; Edwin 
P. and Edwin R. (twins) died Sept 
IS. 1831, aged 7 wks; Abram M. (son) 
died Aug 31, 1832, aged 3 yrs 10 mos- 
Josephine (dau) died June 2 184'' 
ag-ed 7 yrs 9 mos. 
WARNER. Ensign Nathaniel died 
Aug 1. 1S38, aged 72 yrs; Margaret 
(wife of Ensign Nathaniel Warner) 
died March 12. 1812. aged 43 yrs; 
Sarah (his wife) died Aug 7, 1851,' 
aged 73 yrs; Jonathan B. died Aug 2 
1831, aged 31 yrs; Susan O. (wife of 
John Warner) died 1816, aged 28 yrs; 
Mary Lane (dau) died Jan 20. 1817. 
aged 9 mos; Daniel died Nov 7. 1808. 
aged 28 yrs; Benjamin died May 1, 
1843. aged 86 yrs; Lucy (his wife) 
died June 23, 1838. aged 77 yrs; John 
died Nov 12. 1842. aged 63 yrs; Jane 
Humphrey (his wife) died July 25, 
1882, agec. 87 yrs 6 mos 3 dys; William 
C. (son) died Jan 19. 1841. aged 17 yrs 
6 mos; George W. (son of Nathaniel 
Jun. and Hai-riet Warner) died 
March 10. 1832, aged 2 yrs 3 mos; 
George N. died Sept 4. 1S6S. aged 74 
yrs 7 mos; Martha (his wife) died 
Sept 24. 1870. aged 72 yrs 9 mos; Jane 
C. (dau) died April 6. 1847. aged 24 
yrs; John C. (son) died Aug 8. 1853, 
aged 23 yrs; Benjamin (son) died Nov 
21, 1863. aged 28 yrs 10 mos; Marv 
Hoghton (wife of Henry S. Warner) 
died Sept 11, 1878. aged 27 vrs; Little 
Horace (son) died July 28. 1S78, aged 
9 mos; Sargent George L. Co. H. 19th 
Reg. Mass. Vols, died Bolivia. Va. 
Oct. 17. 1862. aged 29 yr.s; Nathaniel 
died Aug 26. 1875. aged 73 yrs; Har- 
riet (his wife); Horace (son) died Sept 
27. 1865. a.^ed 22 yrs 8 mos. 
WATERMAN. Luther died Dec 25, 
1842, aged 68 yrs; Elizabeth (his wife) 
died Sept 3, 1865, aged 73 yrs; Sarah 
E. (dau) died Dec 8. 1833, aged 8 mos 
5 dys; John died Oct 3. 1824. aged 21 
yrs. 
WEAVER. Aldin T. (son of Gilbert 
and Abbie A. Weaver) died Dec 7. 
1874, aged 11 mos 18 dys: Nettie B. 
(dau) died Sept 5, 1873, aged 6 mos 1 
dy. 
WEBSTER, Carrie C. (wife of William 
W. Webster) died Nov 14, 1861. aged 
25 yrs 2 mos; Etta L. (wife of George 
Hill and dau of Stephen B. and Be- 
linda Webster) died May 6. 1885, aged 
21 yrs 8 dys; Phin^as died Sept 11, 
1858. aged 83 yrs 6 mos; Hannah (his 
wife) died Oct 4, 1860, aged 86 yrs 7 
mos; Moses died Sept 2. 1872. aged 68 
yre 11 mos; James died Aug 19. 1881, 
aged M yrs 10 mos 28 dys; Maria 
Eayers (his wife) died May 14. 1875. 
aged 67 yrs 1 mos 10 dys; (Charles P. 
died Dec 31. 1865. aged 32 yrs 6 mos; 
Lydia (wife of Horace Plnkham) died 
Nov 18. 1S74. aged 69 yrs. 



349 

WELCH, Catherine R. (wife of Joseph 

W. Welch) died Aug 5, 1846, aged 28 

yrs; G. (dau) died Aug 21, 1847, aged 

1 yr 17 dys. 

WEST, Franklin born 1827,—; Mary E 

(his wife) born 1827, died 1887; Addie 

M. (adopted dau) born 1861, died 1880. 

WHEELER, Thaddeus died Jan 25, 1890 

aged 86 yrs; Caroline (his wife) died 

Oct 3, 1848, aged 42 yrs; Rebecca (wife) 

died Nov 6, 1876, aged 64 yrs; Charles 

F., 1833-1894; Adeline D. Gregg (wife) 

1835-1891; Lucy Caroline (dau) 1860- 

1864; Charles Goodell (son) 1862-1864 

WHIDDEN. Caleb F., Co. G, 1st N. H 

Cavalry; Samuel died Oct 24, 1847, 

aged 63 yrs; Mary French (his wife) 

died Dec 25, 1864, aged 82 yrs; John 

(son) died in Boston Dec 7, 1842, aged 

27 yrs; Mary J. died April 13, 1876, 

aged 64 yrs. 

WHITE, Joseph died in Cincinnati, 

Ohio, Dec 5, 1832, aged 56 yrs; Sarah 

(his wife) died Jan 3, 1864, aged 43 yrs; 

John F. (son) died Feb 4, 1863, aged 17 

mos; John died March 7, 1855, aged 86 

yrs; Hannah (his wife) died Oct 31, 

1872, aged 87 yrs 10 mos. 

WHITTIER, Dearborn died Jan 26, 1850, 

aged 69 yrs; Susan R. (wife of Lewis 

A. McGregor) died Oct 31, 1841, aged 

27 yrs. 

WHITTEMORE, Mary H. Clement 

(■wife of Peter Whittemore) born Nov 

12, 1812, died April 22, 1890. 

WIGHT, John died Dec 3, 1775, aged 72 

yrs; Isabel (dau of John and Agnes 

Wight) died April 24, 1768, aged 29 yrs. 

WILLEY, Henry died Dec 25, 1838, aged 

37 yrs. 
WILSON. Benjamin Franklin (son of 
Capt. Leonard and Elizabeth Wilson) 
died March 8, 1S22, aged 1 yr; Capt. 
Leonard died March 19, 1868, aged 72 
yrs; Elizabeth G. Warner (his wife) 
died Jan IS, 1876, aged 77 yrs 11 mos; 
Mary Ella (dau of Joseph G. and Su- 
san A. Wilson); Ann Augusta (wife of 
Dr. J. C. Eastman) died Feb 17, 1851, 
aged 28 yrs; Mahlon Eastman (son of 
Dr. J. C. and Ann Augusta Eastman) 
died Sept 12, 1847, aged 6 mos; Ettie A 
Eastman (dau of Dr. Eastman) died 
March 14, 1863, aged 14 yrs; Betsey 
(wife of James Wilson) died July 23, 
1834, aged 'o-j yrs; Sarah died July 30, 
1857, aged 64 yrs; John died March 23, 
1830, aged 31 yrs; Mehitable (his wife) 
died Oct 11, 1831, aged 32 yrs; Marga- 
ret (wife of-Capt George R. Nesmith); 
Benjamin born Pelham, March 11, 
1770, died July 17. 1849; Anna Poor (his 
wife) born in Atkinson. N. H., Jan 1. 
1767. died Feb 12, 1860; Adeline Cwife of 
William) died Dec 12, 1S53, aged 31 yrs 
9 mos; Infant (child); Rebecca P. (dau 
of John P. and Adeline A. Wilson) 
died Sept 27. 1853. aged 6 yrs 9 mos; 
Thomas H. (son) died Sept 10, 1853, 
aged 2 yrs ., mos; John Eddy (son) 
died Sept 25, 1853. aged 5 mos; Samuel 
1802-1877; Mary 1803-1878; John A. died 
April 4. 1864. aged 31 yrs 6 mos; Albert 
died Oct 23, 1881. aged 22 yrs 4 mos; 
Clarissa Howard died June 6. 1803. 
aged 5 yrs 5 dys; Samuel died July 6. 
1811, aged 43 yrs 6 mos 9 dys; Capt. 
Robert died May 14, 1825. aged 92 yrs; 
Jean (his wife) died Feb 13, 1792, aged 
49 yrs; James (father of Capt. Robert 
Wilson) died April 15, 1777, aged 74 yrs; 
Elizabeth died Sept 17, 1764. aged 60 
yrs; William died July 20. 1773. aged 
22 yrs; Samuel died Oct 20. 1778. aged 38 
yrs; George (son of James and Janet 
Wilson) died May 29. 1747. aged 19 yrs; 
James died Feb 2. 1761. aged 28 yrs; 
Grisel (wife of Thomas Wilson) died 
May 5, 1753, aged 66 yrs; Thomas died 
Nov 1, 1752, aged — ; Alexander died 
March 4, 1752, ag-ed, 93 yrs; James died 
June 30. 1772. aged 72 yrs; Jennet (his 
wife) died Jan 1, 1800, aged 97 yrs. Her 
descendants are 13 children, 91 grand- 



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children, 146 great grandchildren, 
about 260 In all; Robert died Oct 17, 
1850, aged 91 yrs: Margaret (his wife) 
died March 17, 1813, aged 52 yrs; Ann 
(his wife) died June 2S, 1845, aged 73 
yrs; Thomas died Jan 16, 1863, aged 87 
yrs 5 mos; Rebecca (his wife) died Dec 
3, 1827, aged 49 yrs; Abigail (his wife) 
died Feb 5, 1863, aged 77 yrs; Sarah 
(wife of A. J. Wilson) died Aug 4, 1874, 
aged 27 yrs 11 mos; William H. (son 
of Samuel and Naomi Wilson) died 
Nov 13, 1871, aged 29 yrs 10 mos. 
WISE, Daniel died Sept 22, 1S63, aged 
82 yrs 4 mos. 



WILLIAMS, Addle M. Smith (wife of 
William J. Williams) boi-in Dec 10, 

1838, died May 30, 1879. 

WOOD, Dr. Jacob Abbott, physici'an, 
died in New York city, March 20. 1879, 
aged 68 yi-s; Joanna Jones Crombie 
(his wife) died Dec 15, 187S, aged 70 yrs; 
John died April 26, 1821, aged 61 yrs; 
Hannah (his wife) died Sept 12, 1820, 
aged 58 yrs. 

WOODBURN, John died Nov 22, 1780, 
aged 89 yi-s; James died April 6, 1852, 
aged 69 yrs; Ellen died Oct 4, 1842, aged 
22 yrs; John died Feb 25, 1832, aged 70 
yrs. 



WOODWARD, Abraham died Oct 29. 
1867, a-ged 73 yrs; Mary (his wife) died 
March 2, 1877, aged 74 yrs; Capt. Au- 
gustus A. Co. D, 32d U. S. C. Regt.. 
wounded at engagement Pocotaligo, 
S. C, died at Beaufort, Dec 18, 1864, 
aged 34 yrs. 

WYATT, Sally (wife of Moses Noyes> 
died June 17, 1884, aged 86 yrs. 

WYMAN, Mehitable (wife of Hugh 
Jones) born Oct 23, 1809, died March 
30, 1859. 

YOUNG, (Yong according to spelling on 
stone) Margaret (wife of Hugh Young) 
died Oct 6, 1761, aged 75 yrs. 




INDEX. 



SUBJECTS. 

ORIGIN OF THE NUTFIBLD 

COLONY *8 

Emigranlts Who Founded the Col- 
ony—Material and Spiriitual Rea- 
sons for Leiaving Their Native 
L/and— Maoaulay's Sumiming up of 
Affairs in Ireland— Rev. James Mc- 
Gregor's Four Reasons for Emi- 
grating to this Country— Events in 
Ireland Preceding the Emigration 
of Nutfl&ld Colonists- London- 
derry, Ireland — Enniskillen. Ire- 
land— William, Prince of Orange- 
Arena of Religious Freedom — Hor- 
rors of Bombardment— A General 
Massacre Planned— Brave Defend- 
ers of Londonderry^Exempt 
Farms— Four Presbyterian Minis- 
iters— Embarked to Bositon— They 
Hear of Nutfleld— Meet on Horse 
Hill-^The Sei-rnon in the Wilder- 
ness. 

THE DOUBLE RANGE IN NUT- 
FIELD 7 

(By Rev. Jesse G. MoMurphy.) 
Seven Representative Men — The 
First Twenty Settlers in Nutfield^ 
The Relations of the Settlers on 
(the Various Ranges— The Scotch 
Emigrants^The English in Nuit- 
field— The Cabins by Westrunning 
Brook— The Common Field — Iden- 
tifying the Sites of the Original 
Settlers— From the Old Proprie- 
tors' Book— Allotment of Second 
Divisions — ^Descendants' Interest 
in Old Homesiteads— The Sixteen 
Families — ^Description of a Home- 
stead Lot — James Anderson — ^The 
Common and Graveyard. 

HIGH MINDED SCOTCH-IRISH.. 13 

LIFE OF GEN. JOHN STARK 15 

A Son of Nuffield— Traits of Char- 
aoter— His Ancestry — Archibald 
iSitark — ^From Londonderry, Ire- 
land, to Nutfield— John Stark's 
Boyhood Days— Hunlting Expedi- 
tion — Seized by the Indians — 
Stark Running the G'aunitlet— 
Ransomed — The French War — 
Stark and Robert Rogers^Attack 
Upon Ticonderoga — Battle of Lex- 
ington— 'At Winiter Hill- The 
Rogues' March — The Assault on 
Treniton — Throws up his Comimis- 
slon and Retires from the 
Army — The Battle of Bennington — 
(Also see Page 293)— Zenith of his 
Military Career^Stark Returns 
to his Home — ^His Death, the 
'Hig'hest Tribute. 

THE GREAT WAR MEETING IN 

LONDONDERRY 19 

Address by Mrs. Henry Crowell — 
Response by Captain Sanborn. 
GENERAL LAFAYETTE'S VISIT 

TO DERRY 22 

Letter Written by Pupil of Ad- 
ams Femiale Academy, 1824 — The 
Genei-a.1 Visits the Academy — His 
Last Words, "Farewell Forever" 



— Honored Guest of General Der- 
by 
W'ESLEY B. KNIGHT POST, G. A. 

R 27 

WESLEY B. KNIGHT W. R. C... 29 

EARTHQUAKE OF 1729 31 

DIFFICULTIES OP THE FIRST 

SETTLERS OF NUTFIELD 32 

Party from Haverhill Looking tor 
Trouble. 

THE HILL GRAVEYARD 33 

For Many Years Almost Un- 
known—Given by the Parish — 
Visitors Complain — Row of Dark 
Monuments Tell the Story— Dis- 
tinguished Men in Those Times- 
John Barnard— Names that will 
Never be Forgotten — Vigor and 
Manhood of the Pioneers— The 
Sun that is Setting Over the 
Hills. 
THE SHOE INDUSTRY OF DER- 
RY DEPOT 40 

REV. MATTHEW CLARK 53 

A Poem by Marion Douglass. 
A WEDDING IN THE OLDEN 

TIME 54 

ELDER JOHN PINKERTON 55 

REV. MATTHEW CLARK 55 

HENRY P.\RKINSON 56 

FAMILY" PRAYERS 58 

THE ENGLISH RANGE IN NUT- 
FIELD 59 

(By Rev. Jesse G. McMurphy.)) 
Twelve Months after the Arri- 
val—The Loyalists— Tory Fac- 
tion—Parallel Homesteads— Sur- 
vey of the Farms — The Meadows — 
Embraced a Beautiful Tract— 
Capt. David Oargill— Sawmill 
and Fulling-mill— The Second 
Homestead— Town Meeting, 1720— 
Laying Out of Lots— Description 
of a Homesteald— Governors — 
Resolution Passeid 1719— French 
and Indian Wars— James Hunter 
of Boston— The Limits of the 
Ranig-e— Record oif the Road- 
Present Owners— Births Prior to 
Settlement. 

OLD ZEKIBL 64 

CRIME 65 

MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY 67 

FIRST BIRTH IN NUTFIELD.... 68 
Strife to S.'e Who Should Win the 

BALLOU— McGregor geneal- 
ogy 90 

ELOPEMENT STORY 70 

TITULARY LITIGATIONS 76 

Grants of Land — Petition to Gov- 
ernor Shute— Encouragement of- 
fered by the Governor— Claims 
were Challenged— Indian Deeds— 
Wheelright Purohaise^Bounda.- 
ries of the Province of New Hamp- 
sblre — Town Informally Organ- 
ized—The Officers Apply to the 
General Court of New Hampshire 
—The Name of Nutfield Sacrificed 
— Township Incorporated by the 
Name of Londonderry— Royal Doc- 
ument— Three Years of Struggling 
— Copy of the Royal Grant and 



Schedule — Rights and Interests — 
Disputes Occurred Along the 
Boundaries — Little Currency in 
the Country — The Mason Grant — 
Twenty-five Years after the Ar- 
rival of the Nutfield Colony — Quit- 
claim to Twelve Men of Ports- 
mouth — John Tufton Mason's 
Deed— The Conflicting of Titles — 
Title of Captain John Mason, 
THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH 90 
THE FUNERAL OBSERVANCES 90 

DERRY DOCK RANGES 91 

THE AIKEN RANGE 93 

(Rev. J. G. McMurphy.) 
Position of Section of Land — 
James Aiken — William Aiken — 
John Wallace — John Bell — Saw- 
mill Built— James Gregg— Robert 
Boyce — Resolution — Laying Out 
the Range— Blazing Pine Trees— 
The Bell Family— Town Records — 
Todds Upon their Original Home- 
stead—Canadian Settlement^ 
The John Wallace Homestead — 
Canada Street— The Coghran 
Road— The Aiken Road— Laying 
Out the Road — Meeting-house. 

HORACE GREELEY 98 

Characteristic Letter 

JOSHUA MOORE 99 

PLAIN SPEAKING TO A CLER- 
GYMAN 99 

THE HOVEY FAMILY 100 

THE OLD WILSON HOUSE 101 

One of the oldest in Nutfield 
(Built prior to 1730)— How Con- 
structed — Wilson Genealogy,— Col- 
onel Wilson— The Present Occu- 
pant. 
HOW WE KILLED THE BEAR.. 102 
Black Jim and Curly Jim — Saw- 
mill on Aiken Brook— The Bear at 
the Den— One Josselyn— The Dead 
Bear. 

TOMATOES 102 

NUTFIELD IN THE REVOLU- 
TION 103 

Hardy Race of Warriors— Before 
the Battle of Lexington — Captain 
James Aiken — Demanded the Of- 
ficer to Deliver Prisoners — News 
from Lexington — Men Stop Their 
Work — Volunteers Start for Bos- 
ton — George Reid Chosen Captain 
— Listof Privates— Company Com- 
manded by Captain John Nesmith 
— Voted to Raise a Bounty— List 
of Distinguished Officers — Lieu- 
tenant McClary. 

THE FIRST ROAD 104 

THE LEACH LIBRARY 105 

OUR HOME JUBILEE 106 

WORLDLY WISDOM 108 

COMMUNION SEASONS IN THE 

EARLY DAYS 108 

DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER 109 

SINCERITY in 

THE BEAR AND THE SAW^MILL 112 
A PEW RECORDS OP THE 

PROVINCE 113 

EPIDEMIC DISEASES 114 

INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE HILL 
GRAVEYARD 117 



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THE LONGEST COURTSHIP 91 

THE MAMMOTH ROAD 118 

PINKERTON ACADEMY 119 

(By Rev. E. G. Parsons.) 
Before the Founding of the Acad- 
emy — Offerings of Benevolent Indi- 
viduals — Suggestions by Rev. E. 
L. Parlier — Major Pinkerton's Do- 
nation — Wliat the will Provides — 
The New Academy Building — The 
Library — The Charter Members of 
the Board of Trustees — Tuition — 
First School Only for Boys — Fe- 
male Department — Where the 
Building Must Always Stand — Ad- 
ministration of Abel F. Hildreth. 
A. M. — Principals — Assistant 
Teachers— Present Corps of In- 
structors — Graduates — The Semi- 
centennial Anniversary — The 
Founders of the Academy — John 
and James Pinkerton — John Mor- 
rison Pinkerton. 
MY RECOLLECTIONS OF DR. 

SYLVANITS BROWN 128 

By W. W. Poor 

THE RICHARDSON FAMILY 131 

THE FIRST CHURCH IN NUT- 
FIELD 136 

Older, Even Than the Nuffield 
Government Itself — Establishment 
of Religious Ordinances — The 
First Services — Installation Ser- 
mon — A'oted That a Meetinghouse 
Should Be Built— Charter Ob- 
tained — Church Dedicated — For 
Fifty Years They Worship in First 
Sanctuary — New Church Erected — 
The "Raising" — Second House of 
God — Enlarged. Remodeled, Ren- 
ovated — Rev. E. L. Parker's De- 
scription of Interior— Stoves used 
for the First Time — Foot Stoves — 
Another Change — Interior Mod- 
ernized — Rededicated — Benefac- 
tors—Mr. David Bassett's Leg- 
acy—James C. Taylor, Charles 
H. Day, and Frank W. Parker- 
Other Gifts — Memorial Windows — 
Rev. James McGregor- — Mr. and 
Mrs. Charles C. Parker — Appro- 
priate Memorials— Inscription on 
the Tablet— The Board of Deacons 
(1S51) — Strong Denomination — 
Seven Hundred Communicants — 
West Parish— The Third Society- 
Articles of Faith — Forty Year Pas- 
torate—Repose in the Old Grave- 
yard — Chronological • Record of 
Pastors — Present Condition of 
Church. 
DEER. BEARS AND WOLVES.... 148 

THE MACK FAMILY 149 

THE WAR OF 1812 151 

Not Popular in Londonderry — But 
Few V-olun.tary Enlistimenits — De- 
fense of PontsmouOh — Captain 
James Thom — Mui.«ter Rolls Are 
Silent. 
MONEY IN THE FIRST HALF 

CENTURY 153 

Old Tenor and New Tenor^Con- 
sidered as Enemies Persons Buy- 
ing Gold or Silver — Paper Cur- 
rency. 

GUNPOWDER 154 

Stored in Mieeting^hiouses — Voted 
■to Buy Two Barrels- Entries in 
Old Town Records. 
FIRST M. E. CHURCH, DERRY.... 155 
THE FOUNDERS OF LONDON- 
DERRY 155 

Remarkajble for Thrift and Energy 
— Sooitah-Inish Stock— Sketcih of 
Rev. Clharles B. Brown— Lineal 
Descendant of the Early Dickeys- 
Sent by Baptist Missionary So- 
ciety to Iowa — Instrumental in 
Laying Foundation of Christian 
Churcih— In Sunset of Life— His 
Son, W. C. Brown, a Prominent 
Railrciad Manager in the West. 
ST. LUKE'S M. E. CHURCH. 



DERRY DEPOT 156 

THE FIRST M.EETING-HOUSE... 158 

EAYERS RANGE 159 

(By Rev. Jesse G. McMui'phy.) 
The Proiminence of The Range— 
Occupiied by Bears and Wolves — 
Nuitfield Not the Earliest Applied 
Title— Dunstable an Older Name- 
Headlines of Fann.^— William 
Bayers- Laying Out of Eayei-s' 
Homestead — Identifloation of Bay- 
ers' Homestead — The Present 
T\horougthfare — Abram Holmes — 
Closely Related by Marriage — De- 
scribing Meadows— John McClurg 
— The Owner of Second Division — 
The Rankin Maidoiw — The Craig 
Farm— Thiou sand Poundsof Sugar- 
Maiden Sis<ters— The Tending of 
Sheep. 
LIFE OF GEN. GEORGE REID.. .. 165 
His Early Life — Domestic Life — 
News of the Battle oif Lexington — 
Under Genenal Stark— Comimas- 
sioned Captain— Coinfldence of 
Washington — ^Expedition Against 
Six Nations^Sincere Repentance 
—Man of Courage and Sa.gaoitv — 
Addressed (the Rioters— His Death 
— His Wife a Woman of Rare En- 
dowments-" 'Tis Mmlly Reid"— 
Mrs. Reid's Deia.tlh. 

GRISTMILLS 167 

THE JAMES ROGERS FAMILY.. 168 
James Rogers— Mistaken for a 
Bear and Shot. 
ROBERT ROGERS OR "ROGERS 

THE RANGER" 18R 

His Boyhood Days— The Seven 
Years' War— Fighting the Indians 
—Indians Not the Only Foe- 
Anecdotes of Pilgrim Adventurers 
—"Rogers' Slide"— The St. Fran- 
cis Indians— Accused of Treason 
— ^Reminiscences of the French 
W'ar — Demanded Rogers' Money 
—Espoused the Royalist Cause- 
Leaves His Family Never to Re- 
tui-n- His Death— Gen. Stark 
Served ITnder Rogers;- Robert 
Rogers' Domestic Life— The Wa- 
terman Place. 

ST. THOMAS CHURCH 178 

GARRISON HOUSES 1,S7 

"MY DOG RAN TOO" 188 

READY WIT 188 

INDIANS OF THE MERRIMACK 189 
Their Origin — The Language of 
the Abenakis — Their Principal 
Seat at Pawtucket— The Etymol- 
ogy of the Same— The Indians 
Under Passaconaway — The Nam- 
eke, not the Namoskeags — The 
Nipmucks of Massachusetts, not 
a Part of the Pawtuckets — The 
Penacooiks, the Exten't of Their 
Country, and the Etymology of 
the Name — The Conversion of 
Passaconaway, and his Great 
Speech — He Relinquishes His 
Sachemship to his Son Wonalan- 
cett — Wonalancett Agrees to Be- 
come a Praying Indian — His Con- 
fession of Christianity — Rev. 
John Eliot's and Major (jookin's 
Report of Visits to Wamesit — De- 
struction of Wonalancett's Camp 
at Penacook, by Captain Mosley 
in 1675 — The Nasbaway Indians 
not a Part of the Pawtucket Tribe 
— Meaning of Nashua — Termina- 
tions of the Plurals of Indian 
Nouns — The Errors of Mr. Potter, 
in his Histoi-y — Etymology of In- 
dian Names of Localities About 
Manchester— The Retirement of 
the Pen.acooks td Canada, and 
Subsequent Residence on ITmba- 
gog Lake — The Return of Wona- 
lancett to Wamesit, and his 
Death— The Great Epidemic of 
1618- TheDestruction of the Tribe 
by Sickness — The Blood of Pas.sa- 



conaway in the Veins of our La- 
borers—The Last of the Tribe. 

ST. PAUL'S M. E. CHURCH 196 

A NUTFIELD ENOCH ARDEN.. 197 
Homestead Near the Hill Grave- 
yard—Benjamin Downs— His Do- 
mestic Life— Tha Indian War 
Breaks Out— Homes of Settlers in 
Danger— Downs vjoes to War — 
No Tidings of the Absent. Hus- 
band — The Anxious Wife — Eight 
Years Go by — Mrs. Downs Mar- 
ries Another Man— The Stranger 
—The Missing Husband— Pain- 
ful Scene. 
THE JOHN McMURPHY GENE- 
ALOGY 203 

Traditions of Gardner Murphy of 
Boston— The Half Mile Range— 
Three; Islands in Massabesic 
Pond— Soldier of the Revolution. 
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 

LONDONDERRY .' 204 

Twenty Years After the Settle- 
menit— Petition to be Set Off— The 
Hill Meetinghouse — Taxed for 
Worship — Carried Their Shoes 
in Their Hands— Two Lovers- 
Could not Agree Which Church 
to A ttenid— Windham Parish Set 
Off— Elders of fhe Church— 
"Forty Family Quarrels"— 
Chronological List of Pastors- 
Church Membership— Historic 
Sermon by Rev. Luther B. Pert 

LONDONDERRY TORIES 208 

Committee of Nine— Foes at 
Home— Colonel Stephen Holland 
—Quiets Their Fears — Confiscat- 
ed—Banished—John Clarke. a 
Tory— Barn Raising- Ankle Deep 
in Whig Blood— Debate Over the 
Return of Loyalists and Refugees 
— Sweets of Liberty. 

THE BEAR HUNT OF 1807 212 

Last Successful Hunt — Following 
the Bear— Near Pelham Meeting- 
house — Near Windham Meeting- 
house — Deacon John Fisher— 
The Dead Bear— The Share of 
Each— The Hunt Duly Celebrat- 
ed. 
THE THREE QUARTER MILE 

RANGE 213 

(By Rev. J. G. McMurphy.) 
Before the Charter of London- 
derry — Doubtful Ownership — 
Disputed Territory — Imaginary 
Boundary — The Origin of the 
Name^ — Stephen Pierce's Home- 
stead — Transcript of the Recoirds 
—Deeds of J. Calvin Taylor — Al- 
lotment of the Farms — The Hugh 
Montgomery Lands — Laying Out 
of the Highway — Rapid Changes 
in Ownei^hip — Present Owners of 
the Lots— Horizontal Slab Tells 
the Story. 

TOWN ACCOUNTS 217 

THE FIRST FRAME HOUSE 217 

ONE OF THE QUAINT ENTRIES 218 
"AWFULLY ALARMING TO 

THE WICKED" 218 

EARLY SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL- 
MASTERS 221 

Clearing away the forests — Pri- 
vate Roads — To Provide Means of 
Education — The First School- 
house — The Wages of a School- 
master — Location of the School- 
house — General School Tax — Dis- 
tricting the Town — Rev. James 
MacGregor a School Teacher — 
Other early School Teachers — 
Young Men of Ambition and Tal- 
ent—Young Women Wish for Bet- 
ter Advantages — Londonderry 
Must Have Higher Grades— The 
First High School— Professor L. S. 
Moore — The establishment of Pink- 
erton Academy. 
PLEASANT VIEW CEMETERY.. 224 
Alphabetical List of Inscriptions. 



WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



353 



ON HOLLANDS MAP 

RAISING THE FIRST CHURCH.. 
■■Three Bar! of Rum and Five 
Earl of Cyder" — Great Religious 
Awakening. 

SWEDISH MISSION CHURCH, 
MANCHESTER 

ADAMS FEMALE ACADEMY 

One of the Chief Educational Cen- 
ters of New England — First Incor- 
porated Female Academy in the 
State — Pioneer of Woman's Edu- 
cation in America — Jacob Adams 
—Attained High Reputation— C. P. 
Gale— Principals of the Academy 
—Miss Emma L. Taylor — Assist- 
ants—The Fiftieth Anniversary of 
the Academy— List of Graduates 
—Closed its Separate Existence — 
Act to Establish the Adams School 
District in Derry— What the Act 
Provides. 

JOHN MOORE 

AVhat Will the Town Do About 
Him— Town Saved from Embar- 
rassment — What the Records Say 
— John Moore is Dead. 

THE HIGH RANGE AND MOOSE 

HILL 

(By Rev. J. G. McMurphy.) 
Importance of the Range not Es- 
timated by the Quality of the Soil 
— Characteristics of the People — 
Every Settler a Proprietor— Of 
What Trade Consisted— An Ex- 
amination of the Records — Abram 
Holmes— Bear Hill— Did Not Com- 
ply with Homestead Conditions — 
Present Occupants of the 
Holmes Farm — Present Oc- 
cupants o f Other Farms— 
What Tradition Affirms— The 
Highway— Old Dunstable Path- 
Large Area of Meadow— The Two 
Churches on Mammoth Road — 
Property of Lieut. Andrew Todd — 
The People of Haverhill— King 
George. First— Wild Animals — 
John Goffe. 

THRIFT AND SORROW 

HORACE GREELEY'S VISIT 

The Autumn of 1S32— Home of 
John Dickey his Headquarters — 
Fascinated Both Young and Old — 
His Opinion of New Hampshire 
Militia Musters— His First News- 
jiaper — One Hundred and Nine- 
teen Residents of Londonderry 
of his Kith and Kin. 

DEER KEEPERS 

GLENWOOD CEMETERY 

Its Situation — tomb of David R. 
Leach — The Patterson Monu- 
ment — Alphabetical List of In- 
scrintions. 

JOHN NESMITH ANDERSON.... 
Pure Scotch-Irish Stock — Town 
Clerk Twenty-one Years. 

POPPING THE QUESTION 

Tender Romance — No Beating 
Around the Bush— John Cochran 
Proposed — How he Broached the 
Subject to Mary Woodburn — Her 
Answer — Didn't Want her to Mar- 
ry George Reid. 

THE PLI^MMER FAMILY 

Abel Plummer — Indian Garrison — 
Two Sons in the Revolutionary 
War— Capt. John Anderson Plum- 
mer — Has Resided More Than 
Eighty Years on the Orieinal 
Plummer Estate— Granville Flan- 
ders Plummer — At the Siege of 
Petersburg under Gen. Grant 
when Lee Surrendered. 

THE TOWN HALL. LONDON- 
DERRY 

LONDONDERRY M. E. CHURCH. 
Class Organized — Jackson Hall — 
Preaching in the Town Hall — 
Rev. Henry Nutter— Character- 
istic Zeal— Temple of Worship— 
The Church Dedicated — Minis- 



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226 



227 
229 



230 



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237 
240 



240 
241 



243 



244 



244 



252 
252 



253 



245 
245 



ters Who Have Served the Church 
—Sketch of John P. Young— His 
Remembrance of the Church. 

THE SINGI3RS AT A FUNERAL.. 248 
Not Sent Home Hungry or Thirsty 
—Noteworthy Event — Among the 
Records — Rum, Brandy, and Ci- 
gars. 

A CHAPTER OF TRAGEDIES.... 247 
Murder of Anna Ayer— Killing of 
Jeremiah Johnson — The Famous 
Parker Murder— The Dennis Shea 
Tragedy — John Burke Kills his 
Wife — Colburn Shoots Beauregard 
—Pierre Edward PowersKills John 
Blanchard — "SLASHER" Welch 
and John O'Brien Tragedy — Ex- 
Patrolman Stockwell Shoots Ser- 
geant McAllister and Sentenced to 
State Prison for Thirty Years. 
(Stockwell was sentenced Dec, 
ISg.'i. after this book went to press). 

MANCHESTER TOWN HOUSE 
1S41 

THE ORIGINAL CHARTER 

To Pay One Peck of Potatoes 
Yearly — Payment Neglected— 
Small Panic. 

WEST M.\NCHESTER IN 1768.... 
(By Rev. J. G. McMurphy.) 
Old Indian Trail — One Hundred 
Years Before the Settlement of 
Nuffield — Famous Sites for 
Fishin.g— The Indian Villages— 
By Amoskeag Falls— The Merri- 
mack Rivei- — Parceled and Sold 
for Fishing Stands — Lvand 
Granted to Oapt. Jo'hn Stark— 
Capt. John Stai-k's S&,wmill— 
Highways That Led from Ches- 
ter and Londonderry Now Called 
Nutt Road— The Stark Mills- The 
Jefferson Mills— Line Between 
Bedford and Goffstown— Abra- 
hlam Merrill's Ferry— Matthew- 
Patten. 

A RELIC 256 

Stone Garrison Built 1723— "17 G— 
23 " 

SHRIEVALTY 273 

THE EARTHQUAKE SHOCK.... 274 
Moses Barnett— Entry in the Rec- 
ord's— Memorable Events— Extra- 
ordinary Shock. 

ALEXANDER McMURPHY GEN- 
EALOGY 274 

ALEXANDER McMURPHY, SON 
OF JAMES. GENEALOGY 274 

THE OLD HILL GRAVEYARD.. . . 280 
A Poem bv Frank R. Bagley. 

THE BAPTIST CEMETERY 280 

Names of Persons Buried There 
Alphabetically Arranged. 

WITCHCRAFT IN NUTFIELD.... 284 
The Witdh-Hazel^ManuPaloture of 
Witch-Hazel Oil In Derry— Super- 
stitiions Comcermng tJhe Poiwer of 
this Shrub— Exceedingly Lilteral 
Views of the Meaning ot the Holy 
Scriptures— Operations of Unseen 
Spirits— Our Ancestors' Belief in 
Witches — Persons in Londonderry 
Possessed of Oocult Powers, As- 
sisted iby Sataniic Agencies— In- 
stances of Alleged Witchcraft- 
Reputed Witch on Haverhill 
Road— Load of Logs Bewitched- 
The Farmer Puzzled— The Farmer 
in a Passion^ResO'i^ts Ito Witch- 
Hazel^No Further TrouMe— 
Neighbor Choking and in Great 
Distress— Wiatching itbe Afflicted 
Woman— The Witch Quieted— Full 
Proof of her Witchcraft^Would 
Strangle her at Next Attempt. 

CADW'ALL ADBR JONES 287 

Noted Wag of Old Nutfield— Cad 
and Rev. Mr. McGregor. 

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN 

DERRY DEPOT 288 

Religious Services by Different De- 
noiminations — TTnion Sunday 

School— Rev. George W. Kinney— 



Rev. Alfred S. Stowell— The First 
Baptist Service — Mr. Stowell Or- 
ganizes a Church — Constituent 
Membership — First Officers of tihe 
Ohurch— The Building Lot— Place 
of Meeting Burned to the Ground — 
Erection of the Church Edifice — 
The Parsonage — Only Two Pas- 
tors — Rev. J. H. Nichols Assumes 
the Pastorate — List of Deacons — 
Present Condition of the Church. 

NUTFIELD MILLERITES 28S 

The Notable Year of 1S43— End of 
the World and Advent of the Sav- 
ior Exipected — William Miller — 
The Movement in Londonderry — 
Opem Air Sei'vices — Oampmeetings 
— Traders Abandon Their Occupa- 
tion — Farmers Neglect Their 
Crops — Enthusiastic Ralph Nev- 
ins — 'More Important Business 
than Gaithering Crops — Folly to 
Waste Time in Gathering Earthly 
Treasures — Cottage Lectures — 
Earnest Believers — A Notorious 
Tnader — Disturbing the Meeting — 
An Arrest — Joseph Moore — Had a 
Revelation from a Toad — ^End of 
the World Deferred a Little^Mis- 
took his Toe for a Toad— Camp- 
meeting Interest Subsides. 
FIRST TRAMP ON RECORD IN 

NUTFIELD 292 

STARK AT BUNKER HILL, AT 
BENNINGTON. AND AT HOME. 293 
At Bunker Hill — Memorable 17th 
of June — Stark Regiment — Fitting 
Bullets — Third New Hampshire — 
Description of Stark's Mai'ch — 
Floating Battery in the Mystic 
River — Marched by the Side of 
Colonel Stark — "One Fresh Man in 
unction Worth Two Fatigued 
Ones^' — Whem Stark Reached the 
Battlefield— The Grass Fence- 
Flower of English Soldiery — New 
Hampshire Provincials — Clad in 
Homespun — The Britislh Passed the 
Stake Planted by Stark— A Dead- 
ly Fire — ^Stark and Reed's Loss — 
Company from Derryfield — Am- 
iT»unibion Gives Out — Return Like 
Victors from the Field. 

STARK AT BENNINGTON 296 

(By H. W. Herrick.) 
Introductory — The Spring of 
1777 — Stark's Name Dropped 
from the List of Col- 

onels — Resigns his Commis- 
sion and Retires— Alarm in Every 
Quarter — Stark Commissioned 
Brigadier— When Stark Arrived 
at Manchester — Bennington a 
Frontier town — Stark in Consulta- 
tton— A Line of Battle Formed— 
Description of the Battlefield- 
Tents, There Were None — Our 
Scouts— Trophies Brought to the 
Camp— The Berkshire Militia- 
Plan of Attack— Terrible Rain— 
The American Troops — Davy 
Crockett's Men— Baum's Forces 
— Hessia,ns — Americans Massed 
to Receive Orders— The Locality 
—Stark's Speech to His Troops- 
Tories in Citizens' Dress— Nichols 
Opens fire— The Battle— The Re- 
sult—The American Loss — An In- 
cidenit of the Battle— Twenty Dol- 
lars Rew^ard. 

HESSIANS IN NUTFIELD 303 

Severe Discipline — How the Hes- 
sians Were Named— Stalwart Sol- 
diery—Seventeen Thousand Ob- 
tained toy King George III— Seven 
Pound Tenpence a Man— Tories 
Tied in Pairs— A Panic Created by 
Cracking Floor Tim'ber— Graves 
Pointed Out to Visitors. -Hessians 
of Bennington— Stark Brings Hes- 
sians to his Own State— Hessians 
Still Living in Old Nutfield— The 
Families of Longa. SchiUcnger, 



354 



WILLS rs BOOK OF XUTFIELD. 



Archelaus and Ritterbusch — Hes- 
sian Implements of War — The 
Bronae Guns. 

STARK AT HOME 303 

(By H. W. Hen-ick.) 
His Personality— His Plans for 
Farm Labor — Starli did not Die a 
Rich Man— Starlstown^Facilities 
for Getting Logs— The Amosl<eag' 
Canal in 1807— Stark's Saw Mill- 
Dorr's Pond— The Mill Permitted 
to Rot and Rust— Stark's Literary 
Taste— His Favorite Authors— His 
Second Childhood— At Fourscore 
and Ten— Fondling Animals-nHis 
Horse, "Hessian" — The Fowl 
would Crow at his Command— The 
Farmhouse of Stark— No Paint 
nor Paper Inside his House— Con- 
fined to the House with Age and 
Infirmity — The Strange and 
Whimsical Window— Mrs. Stark's 
Death— An Anecdote in Connec- 
tion with the Funeral Ceremony— 
The Virtues of "Molly" — "We 
Sup no More Together on 
Earth"— Stark's Nurse— iStark's 
Last Sickness — The Hero's 
Death— The Funeral— The Horse 
"Hessian" Decked with War Trap- 
pings—Minute Gun Fired as the 
iProcession Approached — Last 
Mournful Tribute of Respect ito 
Ithe Memory of the Beloved Patriot 
and Soldier. 
STARK'S BIRTHPLACE IN 

DERRY 3Qg 

Its Locality — Historical Manu- 
script of Robert C. Mack. Mr. 
Mack's Communication to the 
Boston Paper— Hon. Alexis Proc- 
tor's Communication— In the Sum- 
mer of 1S40— Party of Gentlemen 
—Jos. White's Orchard, Kilrea Road- - 
Took a Brick as a Relic— Home- 
stead of Archibald Stark— The 
Picturesque Old Cellar— The Kil- 
rea Road— Mr. Herrick's Repre- 
sentation of the Site— "Derry 
Dock," Why go-Called — Two 
Brothers, Named Taylor— Tyngs- 
town, Harrytown or Nutfield— 
The Burial of Stark's Father— 
The Stark Farm. 
"MOLLY STARK" CANNON... 308 
Where Stored— History of Its 
Capture— The "Bloody Twelfth 
Regiment." 

STARK'S PATRIOTISM .308 

Characteristic Letter — Lamp of 
Life Almost Spent— Never Worth 
Much for a Show— Stark's Senti- 
ments — The Friend of EquaJ 
Rights — A Dangerous British 
Party in This Counti-y— Receive 
Marching Orders— His Volunteer 
Toast. 

INTERSCHOLASTIC CONTESTS 232 
IT CA' NO' SP'AK THE WORDS.' 315 
Traditions of Controversies— In- 
troduction of Instrumental Mu- 
sia — Abominations and Hin- 
drances to Pure Ideal Worsh'ip 
—Pocket Pitch Pipe— The Pro- 
gressive Young Generation— Dea- 
con Da\i i Bi-ewster on Instru- 
mental Music. 
ISAAC DODGE AND THE BEAR 317 
Bear Hill— Treed by the Bear. 

ABOUT LIBRARIES 319 

The Establishment of Social Li- 
braries. 
THE SNOW STORM OP ISSS Sn 

MATTHEW THORNTON " 3n 

Practised Medicine in Londonder- 
ry—His Public Life— His Knowl- 
edge of Law— His Monument— 
His- Story About a Farmer — 
Samson and the Foxes— Must 
not Take Scripture Just as It 
Reads. 
NUTFIELD RANGES AND BOUN- 
DARIES 323 



The Uncertain Lines — The Boun- 
daries of Chester— Northern Limit 
of Nutfiel'd— Haverhill Limits- 
Nutfield's Eastern Boundary— 
■Souithern Boundary — The Royal 
Charters — The Western Boundary 
—The First Deed— Accompany- 
ing Miap— Fifty Square Miles— At- 
'tem.pt'S ito Draw a Plan of Original 
Allotments— Considered Impossi- 
ble — The First and Only Map- 
How it was Made — Explanation of 
the Map— Two First Volumes of 
Nutfield Records. 
STATE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.... 325 

A SMART OLD MAN 330 

TnaA-elled Thirty-five Miles in One 
Day ait Age of 110 Years. 
LONDONDERRY GRAVEYARD... 331 
Largest Number of Graves in Lon- 
donderry— Its Situation — Value of 
Inscniptions — Number of Bodies 
in that Yard— How Commeimoir- 
ated— Alpliaibetical List of all the 
Names — In Memory of Rev. Wil- 
liam Morrisnn, D. D. 
FOREST HILL CEMETERY, EAST 

'DERRY 336 

Its Original Name— Its Situation- 
Additional Lots — The Age of 
Gravestones — The Inscripitions 
Consitiituite a Special and Consecu- 
tive History of Derry in the Trans- 
mission of Family Names — Rec- 
ords of Descents and Marriages — 
iSpeoifles the Localities W'here 
Brianobes of the Family Settled- 
Efforts to Preserve Records in 
Stones — Monuments Erected to 
Persons Not Buried In the Ceme- 
tery — Custom of Honoring Ances- 
tral Names — Present Custom of 
Miarking Monuments — Duplicate 
Insrriiitiuns — Venerable and Dis- 
tinguished Record— The Names 
'Engrossed Worthy a Place in Im- 
perishable Hisitoi-y— A Wonderful 
Catalogue of More Than Ordinary 
Men — A Noted Army of Generals 
land Minor Officers. Jurists, Physi- 
cians, Deacons, Divines. Elders, 
Teachers and Benefactors of the 
Human Race— Labor of Decipher- 
ing Inscrijit inns— The Value of an 
Effort to Preserve Records that 
are Yearly Crumbling and Disap- 
pearing—The Present Tendency of 
Memorialization — Don't Have to 
Depend ITpon Tablets for Records 
of Deaths and Ag-es — Public Offi- 
cial Registers— Material for Gen- 
«alogicial Histories — Can Trace 
Lineage TVi thou t Detective Agency 
— Alj>liabetioal List of all Deciph- 
erable Names. 
TO THE MEMORY OP JACOB 

ADAMS 3.37 

WINDHAM RANGE AT POLICY 

POND 357 

(By Rev. Jesse G. McMurphy.) 
A Fire Area of Land— Two Beau- 
tiful Ponds — Famous Summer Re- 
sort—Farms Laid Out in the 
Range — Cobbefs Pond — Former 
Grants— Hon. Leonard A, Morri- 
son, Author and Historian— Has 
Done Much for His Townsmen — 
His Ancestors Charter Proprie- 
tors of Londonderry — Pi-esent Oc- 
cupants of Original Lots— Farms 
Identified by Mr. Morrison — A Con- 
flict ofTestimony— Quotations from 
a Letter of Mr. Morrison— Exeter 
Records — O ri gi n al Arran gem en t — 
Quotations Prom Town Records — 
Proof of the Order of the Map- 
Modern Tradition — Dry Oak Tree 
— Mr. Morrison's Communication 
— Town Records and Old Deeds — 
Years of Patient Toil— Original 
Plans of Nutfield Destroyed— 
Great Care to Secure Accuracy — 
Method for Certifying to its Cor- 



rectness — Volume 2, Town Rec- 
ords. 

ECHO LODGE, I. O. O. P 261 

When Instituted — Charter Mem- 
bers—The Fire of 1882- 175th Reg- 
ular Session— Moved to Masonic 
Hall — Handsome and Commodious 
Block Erected— The Present Home 
of the Lodge — Its Dedication— The 
Celebration of the 500th Regular 
Session— Refitted and Refurnished 
—Ladies' Parlor— The Lodge Room 
— Gratifying Prosperity — Para- 
phernalia— MizpahRebekah Lodge 
—One of the Best in the State- 
Value of Lodge Property— Mystic 
Encampment. 

UPTON POST. NO. 45 •>63 

TAVERN STANDS AND STAGE 

LINES 267 

Existence in Nutfield— A Store- " 
house for Rum— Not Always 
Calm and Dispassionate — Dispute 
Between a Britisher and Colon- 
ist—A Fight Ensued — One is 
Killed— Body Buried Without 
Ceremony— Ti-agedy Soon Forgot- 
ten—Among the Earliest Land- 
lords—Col. Stephen Holland's 
Houses-Regarded With Suspic- 
ion Proscribed by the Provin- 
cials — Cooliflney, Ireland — Suit 
Against an Estate in Londonder- 
ry—The BaiT Tavern — PhiKp 
Newell as a Landlord— The Boyn- 
ton Tavern— The Pisk Tavern— 
The Willey Housf^-Taverns on 
Maniimoth Road— Entertained An- 
drew Jackson — Cram's Tavern — 
Plummer's Tavern— White's Tav- 
ern—Hotel Bradford— Proprietors 
of Hotel Bradford — Riahard Mel- 
vin's Public House— Well-knowm 
Hotel Men of Old Londonderry 
THREE QUARTER MILE 

RANGE; PART TWO 270 

Its Situation— Never Subdivided— 
Commands a View of Atlantic 
Ocean— Suitable Sites for Govern- 
ment Sui-veys- Identification of 
the Old Lots— Stony Park— Bran- 
dy Rock Farm— Why so Called— 
The Taylor Family— J. Calvin 
Taylor's Land— Molested by Hav- 
erhill Trespassers. 
BOUNDARY LINE CONTROVER- 
SIES 271 

Limits of the Mason Grant— Con- 
fusion of lines — Southwest corner 
of Chester — Speculators from 
Portsmouth and other Towns — 
The People of Tyngsboro— Butter- 
field's Rock, Butterfield's Meadow, 
Butterfield's Farm— Why So- 
Called. 
GREAT EXCITEMENT IN CHES- 
TER 272 

Coveted Land — Scrutinized with 
Utmost Jealousy— Nutfield Set- 
tlers Had Occasion for Anxiety- 
Boundaries Chang(^— Settlement 
of the Quarrel— Continued to Pe- 
tition the General Court— Sent 
Armed Men Into the Nutfield 
Country— The Charter of Chester 
—No Further Misunderstanding- 
Crossed the Cohass Brook. 

SLAVERY 272 

Londonderry Before the Revolu- 
tion—Census of 1773— Number of 
Slaves— Poll and Moll— Negro Boy 
Proud of His Money Value — Takes 
a Ride on the Meadow— Slavery 
Ceases. 
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL 

CHURCH. DERRY 219 

THE JAMES McMURPHY GENEAL- 
OGY 231 

ESTABLISHED BY THE SCOTCH 

IRISH 140 

THE DERRY NEWS 134 

DERRY PEAK 210 

How it got its Name, 



WILLEfS noOK OF NUTFIELD. 



ILIXTSTRATIONS. 

Abbott, 
Mrs. B. A.... 314 

^thel E 314 

H. C 313. 314 

Harry H 314 

Thomas. . ..262 

Wm. W 314 

Adams Ac'd'y 
b'd'g h'se. .. 2«2 
Dr. Ira H... 57 
Mrs. L. S. . . . 57 

R. H 57 

Jennie L 57 

Res. Dr. I. H. 56 

George H 2S 

Africa, W. G. . 316 
Aikens Rang'e. 94 
Allen, 

Rev. H. E... 157 
Amosk'g falls. 190 
Anderson, 

Wm. H 13 

Res 14 

Angrell, 
Prof. E. R. .. 175 
Monument.. 350 
Annis, D. G. .. 198 

George 28 

Mrs. Betsey.. 215 

Art Stuidlo 66 

Ass'bly Room. 66 
As.sch. Hall.. .. 139 
Bagley. Capt.. ?S 

Frank R 186 

Henry W.. . . 172 
Bach elder. 

House 265 

Hotel 63 

Bailey, J. W. .. 55 

Baker, W. G... 112 

Rev. OrrinG. 113 

Bal'lou, E 69 

Mrs. E 69 

Bap. Church.. 269 
Parsonage^ . 28S 
Bancroft. J... 28 
Barker, G. W. 

Residence. . 139 
Barnett, L. H. 28 
Bartlett, C... 184 

J. B 184 

Bean, J. L, 220 

J. W 125 

J. W. res 125 

Beaver Pond.. 63 
Bell cottage. . 124 

Bell, S. H 171 

Bennington 

Battle 297 

Monument . 299 
Benson, F. A.. 174 

Jack 28 

\\'m. H 45 

Residence. . 174 
Berry, John. . . 28 
Betton's m'p.. 272 
Birch street... S6 
Blackwell. Mr. 263 
Blood. Wm.'. .. 186 
B. & M. Depoit 265 
P.oyce, M. V... 198 
Boyd, Alfred. 164 

Ethel E 64 

Bradley, Bish- 
op 109 

Residence. . 104 
Breeds ..Hill.. 294 
Broadway... 84, 85 

Brown. Jos 186 

Bunker Hill... 294 

Burbank, S 46 

Campbell, O... 186 
Dr. W. J. ... 9S 
Catamount 

Tavern 300 

Chase, Frank. 186 

Chesiter Lino.. 272 

Chickering. J.. 279 

Mrs. S. J. . . 279 

Choat. E 

Mansion, , . 265 



Capt. W. 

Place 139 

Cat. Pinker- 
ton Acad'y.. 121 
Clark, 

Mrs. A. W. .. 29 

Dr. D. S 263 

E. B 265 

Mrs. E. D. .. 176 
Rev. Matt. .. 53 

R. H 125 

Reed P 126 

Reed P. Jr., 126 
G. W. place. 184 

S. P 180 

Samuel 284 

Capt. Wm... 126 
Dea. W. D... 176 

Wm. P 108 

William.. .. 28 
Church spires .135 
City Libr'y.. ..147 
Clifford, S. G.. 64 
Cobui"n, 

Bptsey 215 

Sarah 215 

Irving 20 

Kit Fact.. 10, 186 

J. F 10 

Coffey. Wm... 186 
Colby. G. O. 149, ISfi 
:)orning, A. M.. 278 

Mrs. R 27.S 

Nathaniel. . 279 
Mrs. Mary.. 279 

Col. F 248 

Corthell, W. .. 186 
County Jail... 206 
Court House.. 237 
Couoh. J. S. .. 201 
Crawford, 

J. G 238 

Crispin. G. ... 96 

House 96 

Crombie. Dr. . 68 

Cross, W. G. .. 199 

Crowell, W. H. 185 

Almira P. 31, 185 

Henry 19 

Mrs. H 31, 19 

Cry.sital ave. .. 77 
Daly, D. J. .. 265 
Danforth, Dr.. 200 
Darling, Ja's.. 186 
Demers, P. C. 184 
Derby Place . . 21 
Derry Dock... 91 

Peak 210 

News office.. 184 

Depo't 47 

Village 139 

Diamond 51 

Dickey place.. 184 
Dodge. F. H. . 265 

Samuel 263 

Double Range S 
Dustin. 

Capt. 1 263 

Uriskn, Rev. . 39 

Mr."?. L. I. ... 39 

Margaret N. 39 

Eastman. Dr.. 179 

Residence. . ISO 

Eaton. F. B. .. 312 

Eayers Range 160 

Elm St 321, 1'I3 

North 250 

South 216 

"Elms. The"... 262 
English range 60 
Enniskillen. . . 51 
Evans. Jameis. 263 
Fairbanks, 

A. G 283 

Ferguson, Dr. 283 
First Baptist 

Church 288 

Church 38 

Framed 

House 71 

Meet'ghouse. 298 
Cong, ch'ch. 219 

Sermon 52 

Fisk, Rev. -N., 247 



Family 246 

Residence. . 246 
Fletcher. J. H. 264 
Floyd. C. M. . 327 

Store 326 

Forsaith. H. .. 212 

Horatio 292 

S. C 225 

Frye, Mrs 31 

Glenwood cem 242 
Goodwin, Rev. 175 

Daniel 317 

Henry 114 

David 154 

Joshua... 36, 154 

E. D 181 

Granid-daiugh- 
ter of Gen. 

Stark H,"; 

Great Storm. . 321 

Greeley, Hon. 

Horace's 

Birthplace. . 262 

Gregg House.. 32 

Groups... 10, 52, 53, 

54, 262, 263 

Hardy, A. P. . 183 

J. P. res.. .. 184 

F. A. res 18 

Haynes. L. A.. 264 
Hazelton. B. . 186 
Hon. G. C. .. 73 
Herrick's pict- 
ures 295, 296. 

307, 300 

Henry W. . . 310 
Hessian dr'l 

Master 302 

Private 302 

High Ramge.. 234 
Highwater.. . 192 
Hills. Rev. ... 197 

Hill, A. L 207 

Ella 207 

Emma 207 

Horace A. .. 207 
Mrs. Lizzie.. 207 
Hill Grave- 
yard 33 

Hildreth, A. F 26 

Hall 124 

Hood, H. P 23 

Residence ... 24 
Hooper, Mr.. .. 186 
Holmes house.. 258 
Home, W. P.. . 28 
Hotel Bra'fd'.. 267 
Industrial 

School 325 

Jail 206 

James, J. P... 223 
Johnston, Mrs 24 
Johnson, Mrs. 31 

E. P 287 

Samuel 2S 

Jones. E. L. ., 263 
Kennard .. . 143,250 
Kimball, J. J. 330 
George W. 

and Res 54 

Store 261 

Knight, W. B.. 27 

Post 28 

Relief Corps 31 
Georgetta ... 264 

Mrs. H. F 30 

Ladies Parlor 

I. O. O. F. . . . 255 
Lane, G. W. .. 318 

Mrs. E. C 319 

Residence ... 21 
Leach, D. R. .. 106 

Tomb 242 

Library East.. 66 
West.. .. 66 

Lawn Tennis.. 246 
'.earnard \. T. 24.S 
Lessard, Rev.. 311 
Lodge Rooms 260, 

255. 262 
Ijondonderry 
Maps ..80. 81, 272 

Survey 272 

Looking N 49 



Looking S 49 

Lowell St 226 

Ludwig, N 186 

Mack, A. W.... 150 

Res 58, 150 

W. P 150 

Robert 150 

R. C 150 

Map SO, 81 

Madden, John 186 
Main Street. .. 141 
Major Tenney 263 
Manchester 222, 135 

In 1768 2.54 

Mann, C 186 

Mayo, Rev 157 

McAllister, 

Court 26 

George 1 92 

Charles 

Home 56 

McDonald, Rev 146 
McGregor. 

Rev. David 70 
Rev. James.. 52 
Old House... 265 
Homestead.. 71 

Bridge 222 

Coat of Arms 70 
Isabella D... C9 
Long Gun... 71 
McKenney G.. 28 
Residence ... 12 
McMurphy, 

Alexander .. 276 

Alex. Jr 274 

Homestead . . 276 
H. Jane.. 269. 275 
Rev. J. G. 269, 67 
Mrs. Mary L. 67 
Jerome C. .. 67 

John A 277 

Res of Jas. .. 269 
Old House... 62 

Sarah R (57 

School Build- 
ings G6 

Sarah ,T 279 

Sally D 276 

Sarah A. G... 275 

Mary 279 

M. E. Church.. 246 

First 15.5 

Parsonage .. 246 

First 139 

Moar, J. A... 99 
Molly Stark 

Cannon . . . . ,308 

Moody, V. H.. 90 

Moore, J. A.... 176 

Mrs. N. E.... 176 

Moose Hill 234 

Morse, A. E. .. 172 
Morse Wm .... 2.51 

Thomas 28 

Morrison, L. A. 209 

Map SO, 81 

Mrs. S. C 215 

Mount St. 
Mary's 

Academy.. .. 104 
Murph.v J. F. .. 263 
Mystic River.. 294 
Nat. Bank 

Derry 184 

Nevins. Wm.. 28 

Mrs. Wm 31 

Residence.. ..134 
Nichols, Rev. 

J. H 289 — 

No.ves, J. W. .. 88 
Noble Grand's 

Chair 260 

Nutfield 

Ranges.. .. 324 
Boundaries .. 271 
O'Connor, Rev. 

W. J 152 

Odd Fellows' 
Building 
•••252, 255. 260, 262 

Old House 297 

Old Meeting- 
House 158 



Palmer, J. P. .. 134 
Parker. Rev. 

E. L 137 

Parmerton. 

J- H 171 

Parochial Res 178 
Parsons, Rev. 

E. G 25, 184 

Patten's Map.. 254 
Patterson, 

J- D .■i28 

Birthplace .. 329 
Payne. Sam ... 28 
Penniman. 

Rev 32 

Perkins, Dr 177 

Mrs. F. B.... 177 

G- W 35 

Washington 28 
Perry's Drug 

Store 226 

Pettingill, F... 2S 

Pillsbury, C. G. 181 

Chas. S. 172, 182 

Mrs. C. S. ... 172 

Col. Wm. S. 42 

Store 85 

R. W 291 

Residence... 291 
Pinkerton, 

J- M 115 

Academy. ... 123 
Bell Cottage 124 
Old Ac'd'v.. 1''4 
Hildreth 

Hall 124 

Plan Meeting- 

House 158 

Plummer. J. A 244 

G. P 245 

Mrs. K. H... 30 
Residence ... 244 
Police Station.. 194 
Poor. Wm. W.. 327 
P. O.. Derry.... 64 
Potato Field... 162 
Presbyterian 

Church 205 

Pressey, A. O... 263 
Priest. 

Geo., office. .. 64 
Residence... 84 
Radcliffe 

House 12 

Ramsden, Rev. 157 
Reception 

Rooms 66 

Reid, Gen I65 

Home of 166 

Gen. at Bun- 
ker Hill 294 

George W 256 

Relic 32 

Rice, H 186 

Richardson. 

Dr. Wm 133 

Reside-nce ... 131 

Wm. P 132 

Mrs. Wm. P.. 132 

R- N m 

'Wm. M 132 

Robinson. G 28 • 

Rogers House.. 170 
Ma,1or Robert 168 

Slide 169 

Rollins, G. S.... 152 
Residence .. 153 

Russell. H 186 

Sanborn. R 130 

Sanders, Dr. W. 184 

Bert 186 

Schoolhouse . . . 259 

Old 264 

Dii9triot No. 1. 236 

District No. 2. 257 

Seavey. G. E. .. 110 

Residence ... Ill 

Second Framed 

House 62 

Sefton. C. A.... 184 
Ship Quay St... 50 
Shoe Faotory.. 43 

New 46 

Smith, J. E 1S3 



355 

A. B 151 

J- P 186 

Elisha 130 

Mrs. Rachel. 130 

Gene ]86 

Soldiers' Monu- 
ment. Derry.. 38 
Londondei-ry. 263 
Manchester .. 230 

S.tark, Gen 15 

At Benn'gton. 300 

Grave 151 

Running the 

Gauntlet 295 

Home 304 

(Pull Page 

Portrait) 30,-, 

Staitue 306 

Birthplace . . . 307 
At Bunker 

Hill 294, 295 

Statueitte 307 

E. B. Home. . ,301 
Stearns, 

E. M 30, 31 

Storer, T 186 

G«rham I86 

St. Joseph's Or- 
phanage 104 

Cathedral loo 

Sit. Paul's Ch. .. 196 
St. Luke's Ch.. 156 

Original 157 

St. Patrick's 

Orphanage .. 104 
St. Thomas' 

Church 178 

Interior 178 

Parsonage ... 17s 
Sulloway. C. A. 107 

Sullivan, D 186 

R- G 286, 309 

Swedish Ma.ss'n 227 
Sitate Indus- 
trial School., 325 
Tenney, M. J.. 145 
Residence . . . 117 
Tewk.sbury, S, . 28 

Samuel 263 

Tinglof, Rev... 227 
"The Glen- 
wood" 150 

Thomas. W. H. 263 
Three Quarter- 
MSIe Range 

214, 270 

Thurston, J.. .. 28 

Thwing, W. H. 183 

Residence ... 182 

Town Hall, 

Derry 263 

Londonderry. 125 

Towns. C 186 

Nellie 31 

Tuttle, G 263 

Upton Post 263 

Vice Grand's 

Chiair 26? 

Wadsavorth, 

Capt 203 

Walker's Mon- 
ument 50 

Wallace. A. C. 239 

Fred L 256 

Stone 33 

Waterman 

Place 170 

M'ebsiter, Jas... 105 

J. E 28 

Mrs. Jjhn ... 31 

Mioses 199 

■^''eaver, G 186 

Welch, T 1,86 

Wellman. Rev. 37 

White, Jos 317 

Whitelsy, J. T.. 44 
Wihitney. M. A. 

30. 31 

Residence ... 182 

White. Reuben. 188 

Rachel 188 

Wheeler, G 186 

Mr 186 

House 166 

Barn 163 



356 



H. S 167 

Mrs. H. S. ... 167 

J- C 134 

H. T 264 

H. P 264 

Winey, George 

P Frontis 

N'elson S 268 

Albert J 268 

Mrs. A. J 268 

Charles F. . . . 268 

Windham 

Range 258 

"Wilson, S ')8 

J- P 101 

Mrs. J. P 101 

Residence .. . 102 
Group 102 

Woodbury, S... 173 

W. B 174 

Riesidence ... 174 

Young's Bak- 
ery 261 

J. P 247 



NAMES. 

Abbott, Alice.. 66 

Charles M.. . 278 

Emily 278 

Ethel E 313 

H. C 313 

Harry H 313 

James H 313 

W. W 313 

(See 81, 336) 
Abenakis, In- 
dian 1S9 

Ackerman, 

J- B 336 

Susan D 336 

Acton, James. 77 

Richard 77 

Adams, Albert 336 

Alma E 224 

Almira 336 

Almira A . . . 336 

Almira F 337 

Capt. Amos 

336, 337 

Andrew M. . 336 

Anna 331 

Benj. .60, 62, 213, 
215, 336 

Charles A . . . 337 
Charles B. ,. 336 
Clarence C . . 33'i 
Clarissa. . . . 331 

David 331 

lA. David.. . 337 

David H 336 

Ed.. .331, 336, 337 

Eliza F 337 

Eliza 336 

Eliza J 337 

Eliza M 337 

Elizabeth 331 337 
Elizabeth J 

P 224 

Rev. E...196, 245 • 

Ellen J 337 

Ethel E. .. .336 
Eunice. ... 56 
Frances H. .337 

Frank 224 

Frank A. .. . 224 
Frank W.... 336 
Frankie. . . .331 

Fred A 336 

Grace A 337 

George 224 

George P 122 

George W 331,336 
Gertrude. . . 224 
Hannah F... 336 
Hannah T... 337 

Harvey S 337 

Harriet 336 

Helen 336 

Horace. . . . 331 
Dr. Ira H. 56, 57 
Jacob, , ,138. 337 



WILLEV'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



James.. 155, 217, 

270, 324, 331, 336, 

337 

Lt. James.. 337 

J- W 155 

Qapt. James 336 
James M.. .. 140 

Jane .336 

Jane S 337 

Jane M.. 331, 336 

Jarvis 55 

Jennette.. .. 337 
Joanna D.. . 333 

Joan 331 

Capt. Jon.. . 337 

John 86, 331 

John K. . ..337 
Oap^. J. M. . 331 
John Q. . . . 318 
Rev. J. R. ..109, 
140, 158, 206 

John S 336 

Joseph 337 

Julian 203 

Judith 337 

Justin B. . .. 119 
Jennie L. . .. 56 
Katie A.. ..337 
Louise S... . 56 

Lizzie 337 

Lois A 331 

Lucinda. . ..337 

Margaret. .. 331 

Martha G. . 336 

Mary. . ..122, 336. 

337 

Mary A.. .139, 140 

Mary E..336, 337 

Mary J 336 

Mary W.336, 337 

Moody 336 

Moses 337 

Nancy 336 

Nathan. . ..224 

Nellie 1 336 

Parker 336 

Phineas. . .. 320 
Polly. .. 331, 336 
Rachel. ... 337 ^^7 
Richard H. . 56 
Robert. 331, 336, 
337, 103 
Robert W. .. 336 

Ro'wena 224 

Sally 331 

Samuel.. 119, 336, 

337 

Col. Samuel 120, 

121 

Sarah... 331, 337 

Sarah F 336 

Sarah P. . .. 337 

Sarah S 337 

Susan 336 

Viola 336 

Capt. Wm. . . 336 

Hon. Wm 337 

Col. Wm. . .. 158 
William. . .. 103 
217, 324. 331 (See 
22, 100, 230, 262) 
Africa, 

Dorothea C. 316 
Estther B, ..316 
J. Simpson.. 316 
Walter G. . , 316 
Wialter M. ..316 
Agnew. 

Andrew.. .. 77 
William.. .. 76 
Aiken, 

Barbara.. .. 337 
Edward.. 84, 93, 
94, 95, 97, 159, 163, 
244. 324. 337 
Eleanor.. .. 221 
Elizaibeth. . 337 
Eliza Jane. . 331 

George 241 

George F. . . 241 
James.. 84, 93. 
94, 95, 97 
Capt. James 103. 
121, 123 



Elder James 217, 
324, 337 

Jane 331 

Jean 337 

John 204, 208 

John C 337 

Jonathan. .. 337 
Margaret. .. 337 
Marg-aret E. 337 
M-artha. . . . 117 

Mary 331 

Capt. Nath'I 121, 
219, 324, 331 
Nancy P. . .337 
Rosanna. . . 69 
Rosiaibell. . . 241 
Samuel... 69, 337 

Sarah 337 

Walter H. ..337 
William . . 84. 33 
95, 97, 105, 117. I62' 
234, 324 

(See 34, 72, 96, 100, 
230) 
Aldrich, Chas 337 

Ella 337 

Frank A 337 

Aids, Isabel . . . 232 
Albee, Solon. . . 122 
Alexander, A.. 117 

Aley P 331 

Alva 337 

Amos 331 

Aseenath.. .. 337 

David 337 

Eleanor 331 

Elizabeth ... 117 

337. 

Harvey C . . . . 331 

Hugh 103 

Isaac 337 

James. .. 7, 8, 11 
12, 77, 83, 154, 160,' 
163, 213, 217, 324, 
337. 

James A 337 

Jenny 337 

John 117, 324, S31, 
337. 

John H 337 

Joseph 337 

Mary W 331 

Mary 337 

Robert... 331, 337 

Randall 8, 11. 

12, 77, 83, 337. 

Sarah 337 

Sally 331 

Warren P... 331 
William 117, 331 
William .Jr. 331 

Alger, N 155 

Allen 

Rev. H. E 156 

Rev. C. W... 275 

Col. S 86, 89 

L. A 122 

(See 71) 
Alley, Moses.. 331 

Hannah 331 

Jane D 331 

Allison, B 337 

Elizabeth A.. 1S7 

E. H 122 

Janet 337 

John 337 

John S 337 

Katherine . . 337 

Naomi 337 

Samuel 7. 8, 12, 
SO, S3, 258, 259, 324, 
337. 

Susan 337 

Capt. Wm . . . 208 
Almy. C. E . . . . 337 

John C 337 

Ruth 337 

Anderson, A... 331 
337. 

Alexander ... 114 
3.31 

Allen 7, S, 12 

S3, 91, 162, 324, 337. 



Alvah 280 

Carl W 202 

David... 114 241 

331. 

Daniel... 331. 337 

Charles L 331 

Elizabeth ... 331 

Eliza G 241 

Eliza K 241 

Prances D. .. 13 
Frances W.. 13 
George E.. .. 241 

^ahon 76 

James... 7, 8, 12, 
11. 13, 81, 83, 10.3' 
324, 331, 337. 
Hannah P. .. 331 

Hugh 331 

Isabel .331 

Jane.... 177, 331 

Janet 117 

Jean 3.31 

John ...11, 60, S3, 
103, 258, 260, 331. 
John N . 241 ?,'>•', 
243. ' " ■ 

John E S31 

Letitia 331 

Margaret.. .. 331 

Martha 331 

Mary 244, 331, 337 

Matthew 103 

Nancy 331 

Patrick.... '.' 76 

Peggy 331 

Rebekah 331 

Robert.. 117. 3''4 
331 

Sarah A 241 

Sarah J 241 

farah 331 

Samuel. 204. 331 

337 

Dea. Samuel 33] 

337 

Samuel C 331 

Susan C 337 

Silas R 331 

Thomas ,33] 

WilHam 106. 120 
128. 158, 211 331' 
337 

Elder W 3.31 

Wm. H. 13. 14, 81 
100 
Andrews, J. p.. f.^n 

Abner 103 

Angell, 

Pi-of. E. R. 120, 
17.5. 261, 350 

E. R .3.37, 350 

Annis, Adeline 101 

Betsey C. 215. 2S0 
Daniel G. 198, 24] 
Delilah.. 198,' .280 

F. Jane 2^1 

Fannie M 199 

.Tesse 2S0 

.Toel 290 

John 198, 2S0 

John S 198 

Matthew P... 280 

Mildred 280 

Mina A .. 19S, 341 

Olive C 241 

Sampson.. .. 2S0 
(see 310) 

Anne. Oueen 86, 89 
Anton, George. 77 

Samuel 77 

Annleton. 

William.. 121. 122 

(see 100) 
Arbuckle. R. 91. 324 
Archelaus, 

Henry... 299. 301 

Family 303 

Archibald, A... 337 

John SC 214, 216, 

217, 235, 233 ''58 

259, 324. '337 

•Tohn. Jr S3 

Robert 3,37 



Armitage, 

Rt. Rev. W. 

E 65 

Armstrong, 

G. F 258 

Nancy E. 176, 177 

Place SI 

Robert. ... SI, 84 

Arnold. B 303 

Charles W... 337 

Ashley, M. W. . 203 

Atkinson, J. B. 122 

Theodore.. 85, 86 

Atwood, C. E... 327 

Lydia 255 

Sarah 275 

Aubery. 

Rev. J.... 189, 190 
Auchmuty, 

Robert S4 

Austin, A. C... 317 
Joshua.. 224 290 
291 

Sudrick R.... 337 
Avann, 
Rev. J. M. .. 196 

Averill, E 331 

Sally 331 

Avery, John. .. 241 

Henry 241 

J. M 241 

Paulina M... 241 

Dorcas 331 

Foster 331 

Henry C 331 

Mark 331 

Rebekah.. .. 331 
Ayers, Anna. .. 249 

Nancy 232 

Samuel .. 103, 121 
Ayling, A. D. .. 27 
Babbitt. C. C... 196 

C. H 196 

Baboock, 

Rev. D. C 196 

Biaberley, A.. .. 77 
Babsion, Molly. 306 

Bacon, T 221 

Bagley, P. R. .. 280 

Henry W 172 

John 331 

Sarah 331 

Bachelder, C. C. 337 

Diavid 337 

Daniel 337 

Emily 337 

Geo. W. . . 332, 265 

James M 51 

Rebecca^" 200 

Sally 337 

Susan 179 

Hannah 332 

Nathan 332 

Badger. 

Gov. W 275 

Bailey, A. B 241 

Angle 1 241 

Arvilla 331 

Batsey 331 

C. M 181, 182 

Ernest 241 

Edith M 241 

E. P 241 

Eliziabeth .... 243 

Emily 337 

Foster, T 331 

George E 337 

Rev. Gileis 203 

George W 241 

Harriet N 55 

Harriet 337 

Jeremiah.. 55, 337 

Jo.=;eph 331 

.1. \^'.arren ... 55 

Laura L 331 

Lucy G 337 

Lydia 331 

Miark 243 

Mary 337 

Mehi table . .. 331 

Mosf-s 337 

Olive C 241 

Priscyia 337 

2oe A 331 



Baker. A. M.. . ll-i 

B. F 329 

Edwa.rd E 113 

Elijah 337 

Eliza L 113 

Charles 337 

Elida M 113 

F. H 112 

George 337 

H. B 113 

Joihn.. 112, 113, 337 

Jo hn P 62 

John W 113 

Lucy.. 112, 113, 337 

Rev. O. G 113 

Paul G 113 

Stella K 113 

William G.. .. 112 

W. S 69, 337 

W. W 112 

Baketel, 
Rev. O. S 196 

Baldwin, C. P.. 315 

Eliza W 315 

Henry 315 

James 315 

J- P 315 

L. C 315 

Mary B 315 

Mary E 315 

Priscilla K... 315 

Stevens 239 

Ball, James 76 

Ballou, A. M... 280 
Ed ward... 69, 70 
111. 280, 337. 

E. L. P 69 

Isabella D... 69 
70, 337 

Janet 69, 70 

George W 69 

Jonathan.. 69, 70 

Louise 69 

Mary B....69. Ill 

Nancy 69 

Rosanna A... 69 

Samuel A 69 

Samuel E 69 

Sarah A 337 

Sarah W.. 69, 337 

Susan M 280 

(See page 100) 
Banks, 

Isabella 337 

Martha 337 

Samuel 337 

Bankhead, 

James 77 

Bancroft, D. E. 243 

Jesse P 122 

Bannistei", Mrs. 229 
Barber 

Rev. V. H 109 

Mary 337 

Barker, Abiah. 331 

Abigail 331 

Annie J 337 

Asa 331 

Affie 224 

Benjamin 337 

Charles O 241 

Daniel K 241 

David 290 

David C. . . 224 

Effle 224 

Elizabeth.. .. 241 

Eliza J 224 

George F 241 

George 241 

George W 337 

Harriet D 224 

Jane S 241 

John W 280 

Lizzie A 337 

Maria J 337 

Mabel 241 

Samuel C 224 

Sarah Jane.. 280 

Silas 331 

Timothy 331 

Barnard. Capt. 

Edward 337 

Elizabeth.. .. 337 



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•21, 



12, 

.. 324 
.. 278 

.. 337 
.. 243 
.. 337 
.. 337 
, 258, 



... .. 337 
1.. 208, 274 
Robert ...103, 337 

Parker 337 

Sarah 337 

William 337 

Barnes, 

Blida M 113 

Eliza H 113 

H. G 113 

Rev. J. W. P. 245 

Barr, Jane 337 

John... 60, 62, 83, 
217. 258, 259, 270, 
324, 337. 

Mary 337 

Robert 76 

Samuel.. 187, 234, 
235, 267, 337. 
Barrett, W. F.. 273 
Barrows, F, Q. 155 

Rev. L. D 196 

Bartlett, A. L.. 337 
Charlotte J... 1.34 

Charles 134 

P. D 337 

G. C. 133, 134, 337 

Jennie M 229 

John P 249 

Josiah 179 

Mariam 179 

Martha A 287 

O. S 63 

Rev. S. C 123 

Judge T 133 

Bartley, Geo ... 332 
Dr. H.... 158, 332 

Hugh F 332 

Maria 332 

Mary 332 

Nancy 332 

Dr. Rob.. 80, 119, 
332 

S. D 122 

Bassett, 
David.... 138, 337 

Mary C 337 

Maria H 337 

Maria W 337 

Rachel 338 

Sus'nah.. 138, 338 
Thorn. 70, 138, 338 

West S 337 

AVm. C 338 

Baum, M. F 297 

298, 299, 300. 301, 
302, 303 
Bean, Abram.. 220 
Catherine 220,338 

Cordelia 220 

Deborah 338 

Emily J 220 

Hannah R... 220 

Ina H 338 

Ira G 33S 

James 220 

John 220, 338 

John L 220 

John S... 338, 220 

Rev. J. M 246 

J. W 220, 125 

J. F 220 

Loami 220 

Mabel N 220 

Mary 338 

Mary 220 

Mehitable S... 220 
Rev. Samuel.. 122 

Sarah A 3"8 

Susan 273 

(see page 249) 
Beauchemen ... 178 
Beard, David... 332 



Sally 332 

Beauregard, 

Wm. E 250 

Beebe, A. B 338 

Mary 1 338 

E. A 338 

Beede l!)."i 

Beedle, Rev. S.. 246 
Belknap. Dr.. .. 319 
Bell, Charles.... 72 

Ebenezer 117 

Elizabeth 117 

Ellen M 171 

Ellen W 171 

George 72 

James 117 

Jane 117 

Jean 117 

Hon. John 35, 63. 
69, 72. 80. 84. 93. 94. 
95, 97, 117, 160, 162. 
208, 324, 332 
John H... 171, 173 

Joseph 117 

Louis 72 

Mary 332 

Mary A. . . 117, 332 
Hon. S. D. 122, 249. 
320, 321 

Samuel H 171 

Hon. S. N. 240, 312 

William 171 

Wm. E 171 

(See pages .34. 230, 
348.) 

Bennett 235 

Benson, A 332 

F. A.. 102, 174. 332 

G. W 332 

Idam 332 

J. C 332 

Judith C 332 

Maria M 332 

Maria N 332 

Ruth J 332 

Berry, H 81 

Gov 179, 283 

Bienvenu, R 178 

Bigelow, S. F. .. 171 

Bigger, David.. 76 

Bingham, 

Geo. W... 122, 123 

Bische, N. C. .. 66 

Bissels' 
Camp 81, 110 

Betton, E. T... 338 

Eliza 338 

James 81, 272 

John 338 

Mary E 338 

Meriam G 338 

Hon. Silas 338 

Thornton. 119, 338 

Beverlan, J 77 

Bickford. 338 

Samuel 338 

Black, Alniira.. 338 

Daniel 338 

Edmund 338 

Elizabeth.. .. 338 

Eliza 338 

I. M 66 

James 77 

John 76 

Thomas 77 

Blackwell, T 77 

Blake, 

Elizabeth 338 

Enos 338 

Mary A 338 

Mary J 338 

William 338 

Blanchard, 

Rev. Amos 142 

Mrs. Daniel.. 56 

Henry 122 

John 251 

Blair. Abra'm.. 91 

Alexander 76 

Hugh 77 

Gov 238 

James.. 60, 62, 83, 

237, 324 

John... 11, 60, 62. 



77, 83, 97, 161, 217, 
.324 

Joseph 77 

William 77 

Blinker, A. C. 132 

Blye. E. N 3.38 

Fred W 338 

Lewis 338 

Blodgett, 

Augusta 70 

Bethiah 224 

C. A 224 

Isaac 224, 281 

Isaac J 224 

Joshua 280 

Judge 304 

Sarah 2S1 

Sarah N 280 

Z. M 280 

Blood, A. M 332 

Anna F 241 

Clara L 332 

C. L .332 

Eiena 332 

P. M 332 

G. W 332 

Henry 241, 332 

Jane P 332 

Jesse M 332 

John 241 

John L 332 

Laura A 248 

Nancy A 243 

Oliver 241, 332 

Sarah 332 

Sarah J 241 

Bodwell, 
Capt. Daniel.. 131 

Elizabeth 131 

Tryphena 1.31 

Boardman, 

Rebecca 348 

Bohan, E 81 

Boisclair, 

George 178 

Bogle, David.. 83. 94 
161, 163, 234, 324 

Thomas 84, 1.59 

163, 164, 234, 324 

BoUes, C. W 181 

Eliza « 181 

Lewis 181, 245 

Boltwood, H. L.. 120 

C. A 122 

Bond, Anna 338 

Gilbert 338 

Borden, Rev. T. 287 
Boutwell, 

Rev. Benj 121 

Ellen 338 

Eller 338 

Boyle, Benj 77 

.William 77 

Boyleston, E. D. 121 
Boyes or Boyce 
Alex...;... 328, 338 

Annis 280 

Benjamin 280 

Benj. M 231 

Betsey 280, 281 

Charles... 231, 332 

Clara A 281 

Clara M 280 

Dervy M 281 

Ebenezer 280 

E. W 280 

Elizabeth 332 

Eliza .338 

Eleanor 332 

George 290 

Giles 191 

Hannah 281 

H. N 280 

Lt. Hugh 332 

Jacob G 280 

James.... 231, 332 

Jane 338 

Jane C 338 

Janet 332 

Jeannette 332 

Jane D 231 

James, Jr.... 103 
Jeremiah 280 



.Tennette 281 

John (! 280 

J. M 231 

Joseph... 224, 332 

Ladd 224 

Lydia 280 

Margaret 3,38 

Mary 231, 332 

Mary A 280 

Mary F 280 

Mason V 198 

Nellie 332 

P. G 280 

Reuben 280 

Robert 60, 83, 

84, 94, 95, 97, 103, 
150, 161, 332, 203, 
216, 217, 231, 254, 
280, 324, 328, 338 
Robert, Jr... 103 
R. M . . . . 280, 231 

Sally 280 

Samuel 332 

Sarah 338 

Suel M 280 

Susan 338, ,328 

Susan G 332 

Thomas 221 

Wm 280, 281 

(See page 100.) 

Boyd, A. C 338 

Lt. Alex 332 

Abby L 338 

Alice 117, 332 

A. D 164, 338 

Annis 332 

Betsey... 332, 338 
Clara M.. 164, 338 

Calvin 236 

David 338 

Emma C. 164, 338 

Ethel E 64 

E. W 164 

Fannie E 164 

Fanny G 338 

G. P 338 

James 338 

Jane 338 

Isaac 332 

John.. 76, 77, 117, 
164, 332. 

John A 164 

Laura H . . . . . 338 

Lucy 332 

Letice 117 

Maria 332 

Martha 332 

Margaret . .. 164, 

332. 338. 

Mary A. . . 140. 332 

Mary L 332 

M. V 236 

Naomi 332 

Robert 76. 77, 117, 
1.58. 332. 

Rufus 338 

Ruth 338 

Samuel 76 

Sarah C 164 

Thomas... 77, 332 
W. and Rev. 
Wm.... 51. 76, 77. 
103, 117, 164, 332, 
338. 
Boyd and Cory 287 
Boynton, 

C. W 338 

David 338 

E. P 241 

E. H 338 

John 338 

Joseph 338 

Lizzie E 241 

Lucy J 175 

Martha 175 

Nathaniel.. .. 267 
Sarah 338 

Braley, Angle.. 282 
Porter 282 

Bnadford, C. H. 289 

A. C 338 

C. M 338 

Rev. E.... 121, 306 

F. P 97 



Harriet 1 338 

Isaac 338 

J. A 220 

Clinton 220 

Jerusha 338 

Lucy A 338 

Mercy 338 

Sarah 338 

T. S 338 

W. B 121 

Bradley, 

Bishop... 104. 109, 
146, 152, 178. 311 

Bradstreet 317 

Brainerd, 
Rev. David ... 277 
Rev. T. G. 119, 206 
Bremer, Hon. G 320 
Bremner, 
Rev. David.. 120, 
123, 145. 
Brewster, 
Dea. D.. 158, 315, 
332 
Margaret W. 332 

Mary P 332 

Jane 332 

Jane P 332 

W. H 155 

Brouster, Jas.. 77 
Breyman. Col. 297. 
298, 301, 302. 303 
Brice, James... 76 
Brickett, A. F.. 338 

A. A 332 

Alice 332 

Charles 281 

Clara A 328 

Clarissa 328 

C. T 338 

Edward 332 

E. P ,332 

Ellen 332 

Edmund 338 

Delia W 183 

George.... 72. 124 

Henry T 338 

H. W 332 

H. K 332 

Jonathan 183. 332 

Lydia 332 

Lydia K 183 

Leonard. 328, 338 

Martha 338 

Mary A 338 

Paul 72 

(See page 100.) 
Briggs. G. A... 338 
Broderick. 

Rev. J. A . . . . 147 
Bronson, Philo 155 

Brooks 181 

Elizabeth.. .. 338 

Gilbert •. 338 

Brown, A. C... 241 

Alex 103 

Annie 170, 338 

Arthur 170 

Ammi 128 

Andrew 149 

A. B 196 

Rev. C. E.... 155 
Elizabeth.. .. 232 

Eliza E 338 

Eliza W 315 

Ellen R 338 

G. A 338 

H. L 338 

Sir John 149 

John 238 

John N. 338, 121 

John S 110 

Rev. J... 144, 338 

Lucinda 278 

Mae C 338 

Martha W.... 148 
Mary 131, 128, 201 
Nathaniel ... 201 

O. B 329 

Persis T 241 

P. P 155 

Samuiel 128 

Sarah 128, 338 

Simon 338 



357 

Sylvanus.. .. 128 

Thomas 131 

W. C 241 

Dr. W. W.... 148 

W. C 155 

Bryan, F 221 

Bryant, R 278 

Bucher, 

Rev. H. W.... 128 
Buckley, 

Rev. J. M 196 

Peter 86 

Buel, Benj 202 

Elvira D 202 

Mary E 202 

Bullard. C. M... 338 

Mary F 33s 

Buncher. 

Mary J. D 320 

Burbank, 

Dea. A 332 

Freelie A 338 

George W 338 

John H 3.32 

John S.... 164, 338 

Lucy J .332 

Priscilla 332 

Nancy J 332 

Willie P 332 

Burgoyne, Gen. 296 

Burke. John 250 

Robert 103 

Burnham. A. P. 329 

Charles A 217 

Mrs. C. E 329 

Edith D 329 

George 338 

Gertrude E. .. 329 

_Hannah E 329 

Judge H. E.... 329 
Major John.. 

119, 338 

John Jr 338 

Martha 338 

Mary E 229 

Mary D 338 

Prof. Samuel 119 
222. 338 
Washington .. .338 

Burnside. D 338 

(See pages 70. 71) 
Burns, Daniel.. 81 

Elizabeth 243 

Grisey 243 

Robert 72 

Butler, Gen. B.. 318 

Prof 302 

(See page 81) 
Burrlan, Jos... 77 
Burroughs, W. 103 
Buswell, J. O... 338 

Harriet S 3.38 

Butterfield, 
Jonathan 271, 324 

Mary 70 

(See page 81.) 
Buttrick, A. R.. 338 

A 81 

Danford 338 

George R 338 

Hannah B .338 

Mary 315 

Mary R 338 

(See page 121.) 
Buxton, Amos.. 3,38 
Buyers, John. .. 77 
Caird. Willie... 77 
Calderwood. 62, 324 
Caldwell, Alex. 232 

Benjamin 338 

Elizabeth 212, 225 

Ephraim 338 

James 217, 233 

Jane 99 

Jefferson 332 

Joseph 281 

Lydia 338 

Margaret 338 

Mary 281 

Nancy 332 

Thomas 324 

William... 77. 324 
Calual, Henry.. 77 
Calvil, John 76 



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Calwall, Wm... 77 
Calwell, Hugh.. 77 

Calef, Jos 179 

Merriam 179 

Robert 328 

Call, Rev. O. H. 246 

P. C 81 

Campbell, A... 332 

Annas 332 

Betsey 332 

C. S 122, 81 

Deborah 332 

George 76 

Henry 117 

James 76 

Jannette 117 

Jean 338 

John. 103. 332. 338 

Margaret 338 

Mary 332 

Matthew 221 

Samuel.... 81. 332 

Sarah 332 

Sarah A 98 

Thomas... 103, 338 
William.. 60, 77, 83 

Dr. Wm. J 97 

(See page 34) 
Cargill, 
Elder David. 338 
Capt. David... 7, 
60. 78, 83, 159. 162, 
167, 213, 234, 270. 
324 

David. Jr S3, 

213, 324 

Jennet 338 

Marion 139 

Carkley, James 77 
Carlton, A. M.. 338 

Annie E 338 

Betsey A 332 

Jane 33i 

Jonathan G. . 332 

Laroy 33s 

Moses 33s 

Sarah 332 

Sophia 338 

Elder T.. 158, 332 
Thomas, Jr.. 158. 
219, 332 

William B 332 

(See page 100.) 
Carpenter, 

P. P 249, 320 

Carr, Almira... 338 

Betsey 33S 

Daniel 338 

Elizabeth R. 338 

Josiah 338 

Lucian H 338 

Mary G 122 

Moses 338 

William 338 

(See pages 100, 343) 
Carter, A. B... 155 

Anna E 338 

Brothers 310 

Eliza E 122 

Cavender, 

Eliza 332 

Moody 332 

Samuel 332 

Cecoch, Tho... 76 
Center, 

Abigail 281 

George 28) 

Benj. L 281 

Ceverelle. S 76 

Chadbourne, 

A. M 338 

Chapin, C. H... 338 

Henry 338 

Mary 338 

Chapman, T... 69 

John 338 

Chandler, 

Esther 203 

Hon. W. E... 312 

Hon. Zach... 25 

Chambers, W.. 338 

Charles, King.. IS 

Chase, A. K... 281 

Ann 241 



Annis M 281 

Benjamin.... 95 

Betsey B 338 

C. F 122 

Daniel 81, 281 

Elizabeth 281 

Elijah G 224 

Emery M . . . . 281 

Emily A 281 

Ephraim 241 

Esther 332 

Francis M . . . 281 

Frank E 224 

George S 122 

Hannah 224, 

281, 338 

Heirs 62, 63 

Henry 33S 

Henry M 338 

Huldah 281 

Huldah E 281 

Isaac 281 

John 281, 338 

John C 120, 123 

John H 224 

John M 281 

Lavina E 241 

La Vina J 281 

Lizzie 338 

Lydia 241 

Mary P 224 

Mary W 281 

Mariana P 338 

Moody M 338 

Nancy M 224 

Nathan P 224 

Nat. . . 158, 241. 338 

Nehemiah 249 

Phebe M 224 

Peaslee M 281 

Rt. Rev. P.... 310 

Sarah 281 

Simon 2S1 

Simon Jr 281 

Stephen 103 

121, 332. 

T. D 224, 332 

William P 338 

(See pages 72, 75.) 
Cheever, Abby.. 338 

Elizabeth . 338 

Dr 128 

Heirs 62 

Henry A 338 

James 338 

Jane 338 

Mary 338 

Osgood 338 

Peter 338 

William 338 

Cheney, E. O... 338 

George E 196 

Hannah 338 

Hannah J.. .. 281 

N. G 155 

Ruth 338 

Sarah 281 

Sophia 338 

Thomas... 281, 338 
William... 290. 3.38 

William O 338 

(See pages 100, 273.) 
Cherry, 

Samuel 103 

Chevalier, 

Rev. J. A 311 

Chickering, 

Emily 278 

Fanny 278 

Jacob 274, 278 

Lucinda B 278 

Milton 278 

Rev. Oti.s 278 

Samuel 278 

■Sarah J 278 

Chipman, Capt. 297 

Ebenezer 281 

Martha 281 

Choate, Abby C. 338 

Abigail 339 

Adeline A 339 

Arthur L 339 

Betsey L 339 



Charles 339 

Clarissa P 339 

David 339 

Frances 284 

Francis 339 

Frank 1 339 

George 339 

George I 62, 270 

Isaac P 339 

Dea. Hum- 
phrey.. .. 141, 339 
Dea. James.. 121, 
141, 270, 238, 239. 

James C 338 

James W 339 

Prof. Jacob T. 251 
Capt. John... 339 

Lizzie A 224 

Louisa K 339 

Lydia G 339 

Mary B 339 

Mary H 339 

Nathan 339 

Nehemiah . . . 338 

Sally 338 

Sarah E 339 

Sarah H 339 

Susan A 339 

William 119, 120, 
121. 

Capt. Wm.... 155 
Elder Wm... 339 
(See 230) 
Christy, 

(See Cristy.) 
Church, 
Rev. J. H. 119, 219 

Cilley, J. G 249 

Gen. Joseph.. 133 
(See 230.) 

Claggett, F 332 

Pew 158 

Claire, James.. 77 

Clark, Agnes. .. 339 

Alexander ... 339 

Alfred 339 

Alice W 29 

Almira E 108, 

176, 339. 

Annie 242 

Anna 332 

Arcannah . . . 281 

Betsey 339 

Caleb 69 

Charles 339 

Charles A.... 281 

Charles G 281 

Clarence E. .. ISO 

C. R 281 

Dana 332 

Hon. D. .. 256, 320 
David 339 

D. C 339 

David J 256 

Dr. David S.. 263 

Eben 339 

Eben T 180 

Edith L 284 

Edward B. 64, 265 

Eleanor 117 

Elice 197, 198 

Elizabeth . . . 332 
339. 

Elizabeth P.. 241. 
332. 

Eliza 339 

Eliza A 284 

Eliza G 339 

Emma J 284 

Emma R 55 

Emily B 284 

Esther 117 

Evangelyn . . 108 

Frances 284 

Francis P.. .. 177 

Hannah 339 

Howard P 339 

Henry 339 

George 84, 91, 

324, 332. 

George C 284 

George L 120 

Rev. G. W. H. 245 



George W 184 

George T 249 

Isaac 339 

Isabella 329 

Jacob 77 

Jame.s. 7, 12, 83, 
104, 197, 204, 324 

Jane 231, 339 

Jennette 339 

Jenny 339 

John 8, 12, 77, S3, 

324, 339 

Capt. John.... 339 

John 1 121 

John N 339 

Joseph R. .. 27, 93 

Joshua 339 

Joshua A 339 

Leonard 339 

Lettice 339 

Letitia 339 

Leverett K... 339 

Lillian los 

Lillian M 284 

Lilly 69 

Lucinda.. 2S4, 339 

Lucy 332 

Mabel 339 

Margaret. 98, 99, 

339 

Mary 231, 332, 339 

Mary A. 281, 284, 

339 

Mary C 339 

Mary F 284 

Mary L 69, 339 

Mary T ,339 

Matthew ,33, 60, 83, 
234. 324 

Matthew. Jr.. 231 
Rev. Matthew 53, 
89, 98, 144. 218, 339 
Dea Matthew 141, 
231, 339 
Lieut. Mat.. .. 339 

Moses L 339 

Nancy 339 

Nancy M 339 

Nathaniel H.. 110 

Ninian 127 

Noah S 249 

Rebecca 339 

Rebecca C 339 

Ralph 241 

Ralph W 127 

Reed P. 70, 126, 241 

Reed P., Jr. 126, 

127 

Robert. 61, 80, 127 

Dea. Robert 329, 

339 

Robert H.. 125. 284 

Ruth 339 

Samuel 80, 284, 339 
S. P.... 63, 180, 339 

Sarah A 241 

Sarah E 241 

Sarah J 339 

Sarah H 339 

Sarah M 281 

Sarah T 339 

Sophia 339 

Thomas 84, 91, 324 

Venule E lOS 

Walter S 339 

William 126, 127, 

281 

Dea. W. D. 176. 339 

Wm. C... 250, 320 

Dea. William. 108 

William P 108 

(See page 34.) 

Clay. H. C 318 

Clement. Abby. 122 

Abigail 3.39 

Col. Diavid 339 

Rev. J 119, 62 

Louisa A 339 

Mary H 339 

Walter S 63 

Clendennen. 

Archibald. 7, 11. 
S3, 258, 260, 324 
Benjamin.. .. 339 



Betsey 339 

John H 339 

Mary 339 

Sally 339 

Susanna 339 

William 339 

Cleveland, 

Rev. A. A 246 

Clifford, B. S. . . 64 

Mary J 64 

Silas G. ... 64, 313 
Clough, Henry. 249 

Lucien B 320 

(see 249) 
Clyde, John. 81, 339 
Mehitable.. .. 339 
Cobb, Jerusha.. 332 

Lieut. M 332 

Rebecca 332 

Samuel 332 

Susan 231 

Cobbetts, 
(see 81) 
Coburn, B.. 215, 280 

Betsey G 281 

Elder Daniel. 281 

Delilah 19s 

Hannah 281 

Harriet P 281 

Irving 102 

Isaac. 158, 241, 281 

J- F 10, 186 

Joel 281 

Martha 2S1 

Roxana B 281 

Sarah 110, 215, 281 
Cochran, 
or Coghran, 

Abigail 339 

Agnes 70 

Alexander. .. 77 
A.. 77, S3, 94, 324, 
339 

Ann 339 

B 76 

Christine 339 

Dinah 339 

Elizabeth.. .. 339 
Hon. George. 123 

Hannah 339 

Dea. Isaac 239 

James.. .. 77, 3.39 

Janet 339 

Jean 339 

Jemima 170 

John. 12. 72, 77, 94, 
170. 213,244, 324,339 
Jonathan. 121, 339 

Lilly 332 

Mary.. .. 170, 339 

Mercy J 72 

Nathaniel.. .. 324, 

Ninian 94, 324 

Peter 83, 94, 

324 339, 
Robert... 324, 339 

Lieut. R 339 

Thomas.. 217, 324 

Widow 94, 324 

W. H. D 27 

William 77, 

S3, 94, 324, 332, 339, 
(See 93, 97) 
Coffin, Abigail.. 332 

Betsey 339 

Eliza P 244 

George S 332 

Haskell P 241 

Jacob 339 

Naphthali ... 241, 
332. 

Nancy 241 

Code, Samuel.. 77 

Cogswell, A 339 

Betsey 339 

John 339 ■ 

Joseph 339 

Maria 139, 140 

Mary 339 

Mary P 3.39 

Dea. Wm 121, 

141. 
Colbath, 



Capt. G \\2 

Colbreath, J Ug 

Colburn, E. F.. 2si3 
Colby, Rev. Mr. Tpj 

Alonzo 33)3 

Lieut. A. P. . . 2I7 

Betsey 334; 

Ebenezer.. .. 133; 

Ela 281 [ 

George E 3391 

George W 339 1 

Hannah 339 ^ 

Harriet N 339 

Isaac 339 

Jane 281 

Jesse H 339 

Lucy 339 

Margaret.. .. 281 

Sally 281 

Sophronia ... 339 

Washin.gton. 19 

William.. 103, 281 

Collins, Nancy 339 

Solomon 103 

Columbus, 

Christopher.. 189 
Combs. John. .. 332 

Conant. R 241 

William 241 

Connor. Sarah. 183 

Cook. A. M 76 

Coolidge. C. B.. 201 

Charles 201 

Joseph 201 

Louise 201 

Copp. 

Rev. H. B 245 

Corberry, S. J.. 273 
Corcoran, 

Prof. Thos... 145 

152. 

Cord, Andrew.. 76 

Corliss, H. B... 224 

Corning.- Alex. 224 

278 

Alfred A 241 

Alice 269, 278 

Almira N 224 

Anna J 224 

Col. B. H 278 

Charles 281 

Clarissa 2S1 

Elias R 281 

Elmira N 278 

Corning. 

Eliza A 224 

Elva 1 278 

Esther 248, 281 

Esther A 281 

Esther F 281 

Col. F. 1.58. 248. 281 
G. W. . 224, 278, 2S1 
Hannah, 224, 248 
3.32. 

Harry N 278 

Henry G 278 

Jennie S 278 

John 281 

John A 248 

Laura A. ..248. 2S1 

Lydia 2S1 

Martha M 278 

Martha R 281 

Mary 22 ^ 278 

Mary C 278 

Mary L 24S 

Nathan 281. 332 

Nathaniel 224. 278 

Nelson 281 

Nellie A 278 

Nettie 1 281 

Peter 281 

Rachel 224, 281 

Roxana... 224. 269 
278. 

Roxana B 278 

Sally 224, 281 

Cap. S 1.5S, 278 

Samuel A 2S1 

Sarah J 281 

Susie M 281 

Susan T 278 

S. R 281 



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359 



William... 224, 24S 
281 

(See page 100) 
Cornwell, 

Rev. W 51 

Corthell, E. O.. 161 

Fred ITS 

Corwin, C. L.... 23 

Emma C 164 

Frank J 201 

John 23 

Couch, C. B. 201, 339 
Charles C.201, 339 
Capt. Jacob.. 201 
Jacob S...201, 339 

Mary B 201 

Mary L. 201 

Sarah H 201 

Cox, Charles.... 339 

Edward 103 

Eleanor 339 

John 103 

Mary 339 

Cowles, Alton.. 122 

Coyzer Mary E 292 

Craig- Alex.. 103, 339 

David.... 61, 77, 83 

324, 3.39. 

Jean 117, 339 

John... 77, 117. 324 

Grisell 339 

G. C 122 

Hannah 339 

Isabel 203 

James... 76, 94, 160 
161, 164, 203, 324. 

Mary 117, 340 

Robert 77, 164 

Samuel 117 

Sarah 340 

William... 232, 339 

(See page 34.) 

Cram, (See 269.) 

Crane, L. & M. 266 

Crawford, J. de 238 

Aaron... 238, 239 

Abbie T 239 

Alexander... 238 
Caroline M.. 238 

Carrie E 239 

Emma T 239 

Hosea W.... 238 

James 76 

Hon. J. G. .. 189, 

195 

Sir Malcolm. 238 

Mary A 239 

Mrs. W.. 122, 229 
Creesey, R.... 103 
Creesy, Betsey 332 

Joseph 332 

William 332 

Cristy, or Christie 
Jesse.... 324, 339 

Martha 339 

Mary 339 

Peter 76, 103, 339 

Rebekah 339 

Sarah 339 

Thomas 339 

William 76 

Crispen, G.. 96, 163 
Crockett, Davy 299 
Crocker, 

Elizabeth,... 340 
Elder John.. 340 

Lydia 340 

Margaret.... 340 
Crombie, B. J.. 340 

Huldah 340 

Dr. James... 68. 

263, 340 

Dr. J. H.. 68, 263, 

340 

Jane 340 

Joana J 340 

John.. 60. 83, 121, 
160, 324, 340 

Mary A 340 

Rebecca 340 

Robert 340 

Ruf us C 340 

Samuel 20? 

37 



Sarah W 340 

William 340 

William C... 340 
Cromwell, O... 49 
Cronen, Joa'na 273 
Crosby, 

Prof. David. 202 
Cross, Abner.. 339 

David 92 

Eliza 339 

Gilman 339 

Major Ira.... 223 

John 270. 339 

Ducy 339 

Mary 339 

Rebecca O... 339 
William fJ... 199 
( 'rowell. 
Almira A. 185, 241 
David .... 185, 332 
Elizabeth.... 332 
Hannah.. 185, 241 
Harriet H... 332 
Henry and Mrs. 
19, 80, 290, 332 

Henry C 332 

James 332 

Judith 332 

Maria E 332 

Martha S.... 46 

Mary E 185 

Myron W 185. 241 

Nellie 1 185 

Orra A 332 

Capt. P... 47, 332 
S.. 21, 185, 241, 332 

Sarah 332 

Sarah A 332 

Sarah E 332 

Sarah F 332 

W. H. and Mrs. 
185, 241, 269 
(See 100.) 
eummings. 
Dr. Alex. 208, 340 

Anne 340 

Charles H.... 263 

Frances 340 

Sarah 122 

Cunning. C. U. 156 
Cunningham, 

Archibald.... 340 

Eliza J 340 

Jane 340 

Jeannette 340 

Jessie L 340 

John L 340 

Langdon 340 

Mary C 340 

Maud E 316 

William 340 

William H... 340 
Cumner & Co.. 327 

Currier, A 120 

Boyd 40 

David 340 

Gov 273 

Rev. John... 196 

Mary 340 

Mary L 251 

Moody 320 

Curry, A 77 

James 77 

Joseph 76 

Gushing, Dr. C. 123 
Charles S.... 12i 

Zenas 123 

Cushman,C. H. 196 

I. S 155 

O. W 196 

Cutler, Betsey 332 

Lemuel 332 

Cutter, 

Elizabeth 340 

Benjamin 98 

Rose E 340 

Sarah A 9" 

Cutting, Lewis 340 

Susan J 340 

Dakin, Hattie 278 

Daly, D. J. 265, 266 

John & Sons 266 

Rev. John B. 109 



Dalton, 

Hannah 340 

Michael S.... 340 

Dana, Rev. D. 69. 
119. 158, 204, 306 

G. W 332 

Jonathan 281, 290 

John ,332 

Lucinda 281 

Mary E 332 

Maria D 332 

Dane, F. K.... 203 

Danforth, B . . . .340 

Charles B 200 

David 340 

Eliphalet 100. 1.58 

John 340 

Lucy 264. 340 

Mary S 200 

Rebecca , 200 

Simeon 340 

Capt. W 340 

Darley, 

F. O. C 310 

Davidson, F... 340 

Francis 332 

Janet 332 

Jane 13 

John 208 

Margaret.... 340 

Maria E 332 

Martha 340 

Thomas 340 

Rev. W.. 53, 137, 
144, 153, 204, 272, 
340 
Davis. Capt. B. 170 

Charles 340 

Elizabeth S.. 108 
Emma A 313 

G. W 340 

Jemima 170 

Louisa J 173 

Paul 281 

Rachel F 340 

Susan A 281 

W. W 313 

(See 100) 

Day, C. H. 138, 209, 
340 

Dea. D.... 138, 340 
Elizabeth.. .. 340 

Henry 122 

Leonard L. . . . 340 

Little 340 

Lizzie 340 

Lucy 340 

Margaret R.. 340 

Martha 340 

Rev. P. B 119. 219, 
340 

Sally 340 

Sarah J 340 

Sarah N 340 

Dean, A 332 

Adam.. .;.... 77 

Andrew 76 

Benjamin C... 320 
Nathaniel.. .. 332 
Dr. Oliver.. .. 320 
Dearborn. Capt 293 
Rev. E. P. F.. 246 

George 196 

J. W 156 

Mary A 122 

Dellner, P. E.... 227 
Demary, 

Abbie A 287 

Derby, Gen. 22, 123, 
229, 230, 318, 340 

Derener, Dr 229 

Devoe & Co 310 

Dickey, A.. 332, 340 

Betsey 155 

Caroline P.... 241 

David 324 

David W 340 

Elias 11'' 

Elizabeth 117, 332 

Eliza A ?33 

Fannie D. 332, 333 

Fannie M 332 

Frances 332 



Fi-ank T 196 

George P 332 

George W 62 

Hannah 332 

Harrison T... 340 

Horace G .340 

Janet 340 

Jennet 332 

Jenny M 332 

John... 19. SO, 99, 

240, 332, 340 

Capt. J.. 117, 155, 

332 

Margaret. 332, 333 

Margaret A... 340 

Mary 47, 332 

Mary F 332 

Mary J 145 

Martha 117 

Matthew.. 89, 117, 
332. 340 
Montgomery.. 333 

Rhoda 332 

Robert... 158, 332 

Robert M 332 

S. 103, 117, 324, 340 

Sarah 117 

Sarah A 340 

.Sarah K 332 

Sophia S 340 

Thomas 340 

William.. 103, 117 
(See 34, 184) 
Ditkoy, Adam.. 77 

Dieskau, B 16 

Dillingham. 

Sarah G 241 

Dickinson, S.... 340 

Susan 340 

Dinsmore, 

Anna 333 

Cadford M.... 340 

C. H 122 

David 340 

Elizabeth.. .. 340 

Gilman 155 

Gov 81 

James 340 

John 81, 340 

J. T. G 213, 340 

J. H 81 

J. W 259. 260 

Margaret . . . . 340 
Mehitable.. .. 340 

Rachel 340 

Lieut. Robert 340 

Samuel 340 

Susanna 340 

Thomas 333 

Dissmore. A. K. 241 

Corners 105 

John 241 

Lucy 241 

Pew 158 

Dix, Abigail.. .. 173 
Doak, James... 8, 83 
90, 324. 

John S. S3, 324 

Robert... 8, 83, 324 
Doane, Mary... 128 
Dod. Lawrence. 77 
Dodge, 

Almira B 108 

176, 177. 

Benjamin 333 

David 340 

Ednah 340 

F. H 266 

Harriet A 229 

Isaac 317 

Minnie E 266 

Samuel 333 

(See page 21.) 
Dody. Andrew.. 77 

Doe, Judge 319 

Dole. Betsey... 340 

Eunice 340 

Donnaldson. 

Alexander 76 

Dorr, B. S 340 

Hiram 340 

James J 340 



Mai-tha E 340 

Martha G 340 

Mary 340 

Mary A 340 

Douglas, M 53 

Patrick 217 

(See page 76.) 
Downs, Benj... 197 

Benj. Jr 197 

Cynthia 228 

Mary 197 

Dow, Betsey E. 241 

Elizabeth 241 

Hezekiah 333 

Isaac 241 

Jacob 333 

John 333 

John C 241 

Mary 333 

Samuel 150, 333 

(See page 230.) 

Drew, A. 281 

Rev. E. A 196 

Ruf us 281 

Sarah 281 

William E . . . . 225 
Drisko, E. R.... 39 

E. H 39 

Isabella .39 

Laura 39 

Margaret N.. 39 
Rev. R. C...39, 145 

Drury f. 291 

Dudley, Gov 89 

Duffy, John. 161, 178 

Duglass, A 76 

Duncan, A 333 

David 77 

Dea. George... 117 
204, 208, 324. 

George Jr 208 

Hannah... 177, 231 
243, 328. 

Hannah H 277 

James 103, 231 

Gen. James.. . 307 

Jane 328, 3.33 

John... 80. 117. 1.5S 
204, 231, 277, 324, 
328, 333. 

Letitia 117 

Mary 231 

Naomi 117 

Robert 117 

Sally 276 

Samuel 117 

William... 117, 231 
243. 

William H.... 231 
(See page 34.) 
Dunkan, 

William 77 

Dunlap, Alex.. 76 

Andrew 77 

Lieut. John.. 340 
Martha H.... 340 

Thomas 76 

Duntley, E 202 

Dupee, D 78 

Durfee, P 38 

Durrell, J. M . . . 196 

Dustin, A 100 

Caleb.... 155. 340 
Rev. Caleb... 290 
340. 

David 251 

Eliza 340 

Hannah... 65, 251 

Isaiah A 263 

Susannah . .. 340 

Timothy 103 

Dutton. A. C . 246 
D wight. L. W.. 229 
Eastman, A... 179, 
340. 

Alpheus 185 

Amos 15 

A. A ISO, 349 

Benjamin . . . . 340 

Benj. F 340 

Charles P.... S'lO 
Ella 180 



Etta A 349 

George \\ ... 340 

Hannah 1S5 

Henry 122 

Henry E 171 

Dr. Joseph... 179 
Dr. Jos. Jr.... 179 
Dr. J. C. 179, 349 
Josephine P.. 340 

Josiah B 180 

Kate W 340 

Rev. L. L.... 246 

Mahlon 349 

Mary H 180 

Meriam C. .. 179 

Sophia L 340 

Sophia S 340 

Susan 179 

Susan A 180 

Timothy Y... 340 
(See 230.) 
Easton, F. B.... 320 
Eaton. B. J . . . . .340 

Eliza 320 

Francis B 312 

Hannah 329 

Hannah E. .. 340 
Hannah H... 312 

Henrv .329 

Hosea 325 

James G 333 

James H 340 

Joseph 290 

Peter 312 

Bayers, C 324 

John 221 

Maria.... 105, 349 

Rebecca 340 

Samuel 103 

Susannah T.. 340 
Wm... 84. 94, 159 
324, 340. 
Edwards. 

Rev. J 119 

Hon. T. M... 325 

Ela, Clark 340 

David 117. 333. 340 
Edward... 158. 333 
Edward P.... 333 
George.. 163, 340 
Hannah.. 117, 333 

Harriet M 340 

Isabella 333 

John 340 

John A 333 

John W 340 

Mary.... 333, 340 

Nancy 340 

Samuj?l G . . . . 333 

S 117, 333. 340 

Sarah A 340 

Dea. Wm. 141, 340 
William G . . . . 340 
(See 100.) 
Elder, James.. 77 

Thomas 76 

Elkins, Dr 177 

and Widener 316 
Elliot, Dr. T.... 122' 
Rev. John... 189, 
191. 

Mary E 320 

Emerson, A . . . . 340 

Col 296, 301 

Jonathan .... 70 
Rev. Joseph.. 229 

Louise 203 

Ralph W. 201, 230 

Richard 340 

Emery, A. R.... 340 

Albert G 340 

Daniel M 340 

Caleb 120 

Clara A 340 

Edward L 340 

Eliza N 340 

Eliza P 340 

E 81 

Florienda 340 

Helen A 340 

Joseph P 340 

Josie 340 

Mary E 340 



360 



WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



Noah 86 

Prof 72 

Sarah M 281 

Sylvia M 340 

William 340 

Bnglis. T 103 

Esterbrook. 

L. F 122 

Estey, C. H 33;; 

Daniel 33o 

Edward P . . . . 340 

Hannah 333 

John 333, 340 

John Jr 333 

Lydia C 340 

Mary F 340 

Rebecca 333 

Sally 340 

Willford A.... 340 
William E.... 333 

Etone. J 77 

Richard 77 

Thomas 77 

Euered, J 192 

Evans. A. .. 288, 340 

Ann A 340 

Bathsheba.... 340 

Charles S 340 

Elias 340 

Elias S 340 

Enoch 340 

James.... 263, 341 

J. C 81 

Mahala 340 

Mary 340, 220 

Marv M 340 

Thomas 220 

Trvphena 341 

Warren C 288 

Everett, 
(See page 303.) 

Ewins, A 341 

Agnes 341 

James.... 103, 341 
Ezekiel, 

(See page 81.) 
Fairbanks, 
Hon. A. G. 228, 256 
Dea. Bucknam 228 

Cynthia D 228 

Ellen C 229 

Frances A 229 

Rev. Franklin 123 

Governor 307 

Harriet A 229 

Henry B 229 

Mary E 140 

Farlee. O. A 15.5 

Farley, A. L. ... 241 
Benjamin M.. 121 

Elizabeth 333 

Oilman 333 

Henry 333 

Leonard 333 

Sophia 333 

(See page 235.) 

Farmer, D 249 

I. W 249 

Farnham, S. C. 155 

Farrar. C 166 

Dr. G. 119, 138, 341 

George H 341 

Hannah 341 

Humphrey. . . . 341 

John P 121 

Lucy 341 

Sarah 341 

(See page 230.) 

Farrell, P 224 

Fay, Rev. H. C. 206 
Fellows, Judge. 249 

Sarah 128 

Ferguson, A.. .. 284 

David P 283 

Eleanor 284 

Eleanora 284 

Dr. John.. 103, 283 

John D 284 

Kate L 283 

Mary C 284 

Fessendens, 
(See page 81.) 

Field, M. D 341 

Timothy D 341 



Fields, C. F 263 

Fife. J 256 

Joseph 256 

Fifield, H. M.... lOS 
Jonathan W.. 108 
Theodora D.. 108 

Finlay, J 117 

Joseph 117 

Fisk, H 267 

Fisher, A 333 

Agnes 117, 341 

Rev. Caleb E. 120 

Charles S 256 

Lieut. Ebenezer 
333. 

Ellis 333 

Dea. John. 121, 212 

Martha -241 

Mary 333 

Polly 333 

Elder Samuel. 117 
121, 158, 204. 
Dea. Samuel. . 117 
121, 341. 

Sarah 117 

Fitz, C 341 

Rev. Daniel... 122 

Gerald L 283 

George 341 

Lizzie H 206 

Marv 341 

Sarah 120, 341 

Fitzpatrick, 

Bishop 143 

Flack, H. W.... 196 
Flagg, H. B . . . . 203 

Flanders, D 241 

Lucy B 241 

Priscilla 281 

Robert W 281 

Zee A 333 

Fleming, A 77 

Fletcher, J. H.. 264 

M. J 264 

Beatrice A 264 

Fling, E 333 

Fannie M 199 

John W 224 

Mary A 224 

Patrick 103 

Susannah. 281, 333 
William... 281, 333 
William M.... 281 

Flint, H 333 

Rhoda 333 

Floyd, C. E 327 

Charles M.... 326 

Daniel 341 

Marion B 327 

Sarah 341 

Sarah J 327 

Se well.... 327, 341 

Fobes, C 32 

Follansbee, E.. 241 

Rebecca 341 

Willard D.... 341 

Willard S 341 

William S 155 

Folsom, Rev. A. 246 

Brothers 72 

Dorothea 341 

Dorothy J 341 

George H 341 

Hon. John 341 

John Jr 341 

Mary 341 

Nancy 341 

Ford, Caleb S...341 

Dorcas S 341 

Elbridge 249 

Susan P 341 

Forger, D. H . . . . 341 

Henry 341 

Katherin 341 

Forsaith, C.J... 226 
Clarence S.. .. 226 

Darwin J 226 

Elizabeth C.. 225 

Frank P 226 

Fred S 212 

George B 226 

Gregg 212 

Hiram 212 



James 77 

Nancy W 226 

Robert 212, 225 

Samuel C 225 

William 226 

Foss, D 341 

Edwin 341 

Elizabeth 341 

John T 341 

Foster, H 320 

(See page 269 ) 
Fradd, A. M.... 292 
Charles H.... 292 

Edwin H 292 

Elizabeth W.. 292 
Hon. Horatio. 292 

James M 292 

Jennie M 292 

Joseph R 292 

Lizzie M 292 

Mary E 292 

Norman W. .. 292 

Ralph D 292 

Richard 292 

Eraser. Col 298 

Frazer, M 329 

Frank, J 243 

Fratte, J 76 

Frederick 303 

Freeland, T 77 

French, A. E... 289 

Henry F 121 

Margaret A.. 256 

Samuel 341 

Rev. S. F 206 

(See page 230.) 

Frost, E 224 

Etta F 173 

S. G 122 

Frye, Col 177 

Mercy 187 

Fulltone J 76 

Fulton, E 341 

James 208, 341 

Robert 341 

Furber. F 122 

John 224 

John S 224 

Furniss, M 170 

Hartman K.. 341 
Gage, Abigail.. 333 

Billy R 333 

Charles F.... 333 

Daniel 235 

Ella F 333 

Florence M.. 333 

Jane R 333 

John A... 90, 333 

Lydia P 333 

Martha T. 9 J, 333 

Nancy 90, 333 

Nathaniel E. 229 

Rebekah 333 

Richard 333 

Tenney K.... 121 
Lieut. W. 121, 158 

G. A 178 

Gale, Col 179 

Abigail 179 

Charles P.... 229 
Chas. C. P... 341 

Chas. W 341 

Helen M 341 

Martha 341 

Mary H 341 

Gait, Benj 76 

William 76 

Galvin 178 

Gardner, C. N. 281 

L. P 333 

Mary 281 

Stephen 281 

Garfield 238 

Theresa 203 

Garvain 241 

Garven, J 333 

Margaret 333 

Garvin 102 

Gates 303 

Gault, Benj,... 341 
Caroline M.. 238 

Henry A 341 

Hugh 341 



Martha 341 

Nancy 341 

Gay 112, 113 

George, A. W.. 341 

David 103 

G. B 341 

Harriette E.. 341 

Jonathan 103 

Lucian 341 

Michael 103 

Willie H 341 

Gerah, E 341 

James 341 

Sarau M 341 

Gerrish, S 309 

Susan C 309 

True 309 

Gerry 274 

Gibb ,342 

Gibson, J 341 

Jesse.... 267, 275 

Sarah A 275 

Giffin 84, 324 

Gilcreast, A. J. 242 

Capt 21 

Clara J 333 

Daniel 212 

David.... 158, 333 
David, Jr 277, 333 

David H 333 

David J 333 

David 333 

Eliza H 333 

Elwina 333 

Eugene M... 333 

Franklin 242 

James 333 

James M 333 

John 241, 333 

La Forest J.. 333 
Marinda 241. 333 
Mina A.. 198, 241 

Nancy 333 

Sally 333 

Samuel 333 

Sarah A 333 

Giles, James... 335 
Gilles, David.. 320 
Gillingham, 

Andrew M 281 

Emily S 2S1 

Thomas W... 281 

Gilman 86 

Gilmore, Ann.. 341 
Elizabeth.... 341 
James 77. 215. 341 

John 208, 341 

Martha 341 

Robert... 215, 341 

Samuel 77 

William... 61, 83, 
214, 324, 341 
Given, John... . 8? 

Robert 341 

Givean, 94, 159, 164, 

233, 258 

Givern 76 

Gladstone 187 

Glassy 72 

Godfrey, 1 254 

Mrs 254 

Goffe, H 63, 237 

John 7. 12, 60 

Lieut. John 83, 95 
John Jr.. 161, 213, 

234, 235, 237, 324 

Sarah 63, 237 

Mary 63, 237 

Goggin 284 

Gonston, S 77 

Goodell, Gov. . . 46, 
273 

Morton 221 

Goodrich, H.... 341 

Dea. John 341 

Mary 341 

Sophia 341 

Theodore 341 

Goodwin, A 317 

Ann 175 

Ann M.... 154, 281 

Dea. Caleb... 281. 

333 

Caroline W. .. 181 



Charles 154 

Charles W.... 341 

Daniel 154, 317 

Rev. Daniel... 175 
David 154, 175, 281 

David T 154 

Carrie W 242 

Ella F 183 

E.. 36, 154, 175, 281 

Eliza J 154 

Elmer D 181 

Enoch 333 

Esther 181, 242, 
317 

Fannie S 242 

George W 198 

Harriet 154 

Henry 72, 99, 114, 
124 

Ira 288, 341 

Ira F 317 

John 181, 242 

John C 241 

John H. S.... 317 

Joseph S 242 

Dea. Joshua.. 36, 

333 

Elder Joshua 154, 

158, 175, 281 

Joshua Jr 281 

Josiah.... 86, 181. 
242, 317 

Julia A 175 

Lizzie M 341 

Maria L 242 

Martha . . 175, 281, 
333 

Mary 154, 281 

Mary A 114 

Mary H...154, 281 
M.... 175, 281, 333 

Newman 281 

Rebecca.. 154, 333 

Reuby 333 

Sally 333 

'Sarah J 241 

Sarah H 154 

Gookin 189, 191 

Gordon, Rev. L. E. 
196 

Samuel A . 121 

William 341 

Gorham 238 

Goss, Allen 341 

Jane 34I 

Mary 203 

(See 167) 

Gott 320 

Gouch 100 

Graham, A 203 

Elizabeth 203 

James 203 

Margaret 203 

Mary 203 

Sarah 203 

Grant, 22, 229, 149, 
245 

Graves, A 63 

Samuel 7, 60, 

Samuel Jr. 63. 78, 
S3, 95, 213, 237, .324 

Dr. Josiah 218 

Sarah 63 

Gray, John 60, 76, 
77, 83, 324 

William 124 

Grey 76 

Greye 76 

Greeley, A 242 

Arvilla S 224 

Charles D 333 

Edward A 120 

E. G 81 

Franklin 242 

H.. 98, 166, 240, 262 

James 289 

John 98, 333 

Col. Joseph... 98 

Martha 333 

Dea. Samuel. 98 

Sanford 242 

Zaccheus 98 

(See 23,5) 



Green, H. 8, S3, 234, 
324 

Moses 341 

Rev. Silas 198 

Greene, Annie.. 341 
Augustus W.. 341 

David G 341 

Greenland 316 

Greenleaf 72 

Greenough 122 

Gregg, A. P 242 

Adeline 264 

Agnes 341 

Annie M 341 

Barbara 341 

Benjamin.. .. 264 

Betsey 341 

Betty 341 

Charlotte.. .. 341 
Charlotte B... .341 
Hon. David... 341 

David A 121 

Ebenezer. 284, 341 

Edward 1 341 

Elbridge G.... 341 
Elizabeth.. .. ISO 

Eliza A 284 

Frances M 212 

George S 341 

Hannah J 341 

Horace D 242 

■fcteu-t. James 7, 12, 
61, 78, 83, 94, 104, 
161, 167, 187, 213, 
216, 234, 235, 256, 
324, 341 

Jarvis 122 

Janet 341 

Capt. John 7. 83, 
204, 341 

Lieut. Col 297 

Jonathan. 103, 341 
Joseph.. 114, 121, 
256, 290, 341 
Maj. Joseph.. 3-;l 

Joseph A 121 

Lauraett 242 

Louisa 341 

Lucinda.. 106, 230 

Lucy 264, 341 

Lucy S 341 

Lucy W 341 

Margaret,. .. 341 
Margaret C... 341 

Martha 341 

Mary 341 

Mary A 341 

Nathaniel.. .. 341 
Paulina M.. .. 341 

Robert 333 

Rosanna 341 

Lieut. S. 324. 333, 
341 

Sophia 212 

Stephen 341 

Susannah.. .. 341 
Sylvester.. .. 341 
Col. William. 83. 
95, 104, 212, 242. 341 
(See 97, 230) 

Griffin, H 333 

Hannah 333 

Harriet D 341 

Fidelia 341 

James 319 

Jane M 33 

Dea. J.... 333. 158 
Nehemiah.. .. 91 

Moses 333 

Moses Jr 333 

Oscar C 341 

(See 254) 

Grinnell, H 341 

M. C 341 

W. H 341 

Gro, James 77 

Thomas 77 

Grassie 122 

Grundy, 196 

Gunion, 77 

Gutterson 224 

Haake 341 

Hale. Col 297 



WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



.^C)! 



Dolly M 341 

Elizabeth 244, 341 

Etta M 224 

Jane 247 

Leonai'd 341 

Mary 341 

Samuel C 224 

Hall. A 170 

Benjamin.. .. 81 

Deborah 220 

Eliza 113, 341 

Elizabeth.. .. 139 

Ella M 224 

Elsie B 224 

George 341 

Gov 297 

Hannah 341 

Henry R 224 

Rev. Jona 196 

Joseph H 341 

Maria 341 

Marshall P... 320 

Mary 170 

Capt. Moses.. 170 

Nancy 341 

Nancy A 341 

Nancy B.. ..224 
Nancy J. B.. 341 
Robert... 224, 341 

Rufus 121 

Samuel 249 

Stephen C... 249 

Timothy 341 

William J 341 

Ham. A. M 341 

Eliza A 341 

William 341 

Hamblett 266 

Hamlet, D 333 

Ellen J 333 

H. J 333 

L. D 333 

Rosella 333 

Willie A 333 

Hamilton, A... 310 

Rev. J. B 196 

Mary 310 

Hamlin 155 

Hanscom 81 

Hanson, A 341 

David 77 

Hannah T . . . 206 

Samuel 77 

Thomas 77 

Hardy. A. P.... 18.3, 
333 

Daniel .. 183, 333 
Delia W. 183, 333 

Etta J 242 

Frank A. 
1S.=;, 204, 290. 

Fred M 242 

George A 242 

George H.. .. 185 

Hattie E 185 

John P 184 

J. L 81 

Leando 95 

Mary A 3^1 

Mary T\^ 341 

Sarah.... 183, 333 
William G.... 341 
and Pillsbury 185 

and Son 185 

Harper. E. J.. 341 

Lucian 341 

Brothers 310 

Harriman 121 

Harris 145 

Harrison 100 

Hartshorn, H. 341 

Lowell S 341 

Hartwell 196 

Harvel, J. E... 333 

Julia F 333 

Joseph 333 

Marcia 333 

Sarah H 333 

Harvey. A. J... 281 
- George A.. ..281 

Ginger 281 

Hon. Mat.... 32.' 
WlUlnm 221 



Haseltine 260 

Haselton 341 

Hasetone 77 

Haskins.... 120, 219 
Hatch, .... .... 341 

Hawthorne 12° 

Hayes. Rev. A.. 15s 
199, 206, 333 

Anna G 342 

Betsey 341 

Hattie B 342 

Dr. Henry.... 341 

John M 92 

Rev. Joseph... 246 

L,yman 341 

Susan E 92 

Haynes, B. C. .. 249 
Dr. John.. 127, 242 

Laura A 264 

Marv M 242 

M. J 264 

Haywood 152 

Hazelton, 

Hon. G. C. 72. 123 

Gerry W 72 

John F 72 

Jonathan 155 

Father 290 

Mercy J 72 

Timothy 72 

William 72 

Hazen 120 

Head, B. M 342 

George W 342 

John 103 

Healey 109 

Healy, A. S 273 

Cornelius 273 

Col. Daniel F. 273 
Daniel F.. Jr.. 273 

James C 273 

Mary 273 

Mary A 273 

Michael J 249 

Sarah J 273 

Heath 249 

Hebard. E 342 

William H . . . . 342 

Hemenway 121 

Hemphill, B.... 342 

Elvira .342 

Hannah 342 

Isabel 342 

Jane 342 

John 342 

Lvdia C 342 

Mary J 342 

Melvil .342 

Nathaniel 342 

Hendee 76 

Henderson 76 

Hendry, R 77 

William 77 

Henry. H 277 

Robert 76 

Henshaw.... 72. 120 
Herrick. Col.... 297 

Clara 311 

Henry W. 296. 307 

Israel 342 

Israel E 309 

Martha T .309 

Mary C 342 

Mary J 342 

Nancy E 342 

Herriman 32 

Heslet 76 

Hibbard 154 

Hicks. C. F 242 

C. P 242 

Hidden 69. 122 

Higgenbothom. 76 

Higgens 155 

Hildreth. A. F. 25. 
72. 120, 219, 342 

Ann E 342 

Eliphalet G... 342 

Henry M 342 

Hill, A. L 206 

Charles 206 

David 320 

Ella M.... 206. 207 

Emma J , , 20fi, 207 



Etta L 342 

Fred W 342 

Rev. Henry... 196 

Henry L 342 

Horace A.. 62, 206 

John S 342 

J SI 

Keturah L.... 342 

Lavoiser 180 

Luther Fitz. . . 206 

Mary M 342 

William H.... 249 

Hills. A. C 122 

Charles 333 

Rev. C. D 196 

Emma J 197 

Gilbert 241 

Jane 333 

John 333 

Reigh 81 

Hilliard, C. P. ..342 

L. M 342 

William T.... 342 

Hinckman 192 

Hine, J 13 

Mary A 13 

Hines, T 77 

Hinsdale, S. C..342 

Hirst, J 7S 

Hobart 297 

Hobbs, E. H... 274 

James 103 

Thomas 274 

Hobby. J 86 

Sir Charles... 86 

Hodge, B. F.... 342 
Frances R... 333 

George E 341 

Capt. John... 342 

Margaret 334 

Mary ,. 341 

Perkins A 333 

Rebecca 333 

Rhoda 342 

Hog. J 117 

Thomas 117 

Hogg, M 117 

Thomas 117 

Koit. B. D 342 

Charles 342 

Hannah 342 

Capt. Moses.. 342 
Rev. Wm. H.. 122, 

Hoi broke 

(See page 2S1.) 

Holbrook, A 282 

Caleb S 38 

Ellen M 38 

Pnadence 3S 

Holkins, W.... 77 

Holland, R 20S 

Col. Stephen.. 208 
267. 

Holmes. Abrara 
80, 84. 94, 160, 293 
276, 324. 342. 

Addle M 333 

Anna B 333 

Anna D 333 

Betsey 333 

Christopher G 333 

Eliza A 333 

Etta M 333 

Georgia M . . . . 333 

Gertrude 333 

Grisel 342 

Hannah 333 

Henry M 333 

Hugh 76 

Dea. James... 15S 
342. 

Jane 333 

Rev. John .... 51 
John... 81. 233, 235 
258. 333, 342. 
Elder John333, 342 
Lieut. John... 342 

John W 133 

Jonathan.. 103, 333 

Joseph M 333 

Judith 333 

Katie I., 33;j 



Lucy 333 

Lydia A 333 

Margaret.. 164 243 

333. 

Margaret P.. 333 

Martha .342 

Mary 333 

Mary A.... 333, 342 

Mary J 333 

Elder Matthew 

.333. 

Nathaniel. 333, 342 

Robert 333 

Samuel 342 

.Sarah 333 

Sarah A 333 

Susan K 342 

Susan W 342 

Susannah. . .. 342 

Thomas 333 

Thomas M 333 

William 333 

Capt. William 333 
William H.... 80 

Holton, J 77 

Hood, A. G 196 

Charles H.... 23 

Clara R 23 

Edward J.... 23 
Edward P.... 342 

Ellen M 342 

Gilbert H.... 23 

Dea. Harvey ... 23 

342. 

Harvev P...23. 24 

Henry C 342 

Mary A 342 

Rebecca 342 

Hoog 77 

Hooker 229 

Hopkins, B 99 

Cordelia 310 

Elizabeth.... 342 

Helen M 342 

John ,342 

John Jr 342 

Mary 342 

Mary P 342 

Martha 342 

Naomi 342 

Robert 342 

Ruth 342 

(See page 81.) 

Holor 342 

Home, Peter J. 161 
201. 342. 

Warren P 163 

Clara A 342 

Mary A 342 

Houghton, E... 274 

Mary C 274 

Merrick 274 

House... 114, 120, 206 

Housleton 86 

Houston 342 

Robert 76 

Samuel.. 60, 83, 103 
214, 234, 237, 270 324 
342. 

Hovens 70 

Hovey, A. D... 100 

Albert G 100 

Betsey 100 

Charles ItO 

Charlotte 100. 342 

Eleinor .■ 333 

Elizabeth 333. 342 

Eunice 100 

Frank S 100 

George T 100 

Henry A 333 

Isaac 100 

James 100 

James B lOd 

John 100 

John D. .. 100, 333 
.loseph... 100, 333 

Joseph B 333 

Joseph Jr.... 100 

Lucy J 333 

Mary W 100 

.Milton,,,,,,., 100 



Paulina 100 

Rebecca 333 

Robert 100 

Sally 1 100 

Samuel Jr lOO 

Sarah 100, 333 

William ino 

William B.... 333 

How, A 342 

Charles 342 

Frank G 25 

Hannah 122 

Isaac 342 

Sarah 342 

Howe, Gen. 17. 294 

Howard. E. P. 108 
M 155 

Hoyt, B. W.... 64 
Harriet N.... 65 

Mary A 229 

Samuel 155 

Hubbard. G. I. 342 

Henry H 342 

Ithamar 342 

Mary 342 

Hughes, E 284 

J. P 81 

Kate E 245 

Michael 284 

Humphrey, A.. 342 

Barbara 342 

Dr. Benjamin 342 

Betsey 342 

Bridget 342 

ICharles 342 

Daniel F 342 

Harriet A.... 342 

Henry B 342 

James 342 

Jane .342 

Dea John 81, 103. 

121, 140, 141, 142, 
342 

Elder John. .. 342 
Rev. John P.. 121. 

122, 141. 

J 141. 342 

L 342 

M 342 

Mary 342 

Rebecca 342 

Samuel F.. .. 342 
Sarah.... 141. 342 
Rev. S. J. 122. 141 
William... 12. 83, 
217, 270, 258, 324, 
342. 

Hune 76 

Hunkins. H. A. .342 

John 34? 

Mark 84, 25o 

Hunt. Daniel.. 342 

Electa 342 

Eliza R 342 

Ellsworth.. .. 342 

Enoch 342 

Frederick E.. 342 

Isaac N 263 

Joshua W 108 

Martha 342 

Mary 342 

Nathan P.. .. 249. 
320, 321. 

Hunter. A 282 

Charles H.... 281 

■Currier 281 

Fanny 281 

James ... 264, 281 

Lorilla E 33? 

Sally 281 

Sarah A 282 

Surah F 281 

William 282 

W. C 333 

Humter, A 342 

Chas. 342 

Ina H 342 

James.... 62. 324. 

.342. 

John 77. 95. 204, 

342. 

.l.-mima 342 

Uobert 84? 



Samuel 77 

Thomas 77 

Hunton 315 

Huntress 145 

Huntington 239 

Huoy 77 

Kurd, C 226, 333 

Charles Jr... 235, 
333. 

George 242 

Henry L 333 

Nancy J 242 

Nancy L .333 

Nancy M. 242, 3,33 

Rachel 333 

Houghton ... 310 

Hurdock 76 

Huse E 282 

Isaac 319 

Huston 342 

Hutchins, H. .. 203 

May 203 

William E. .. 203 

Hutchinson. A. .342 

Austun S.. .. 342 

Lydia J .342 

Martha J.. ..342 

Nathan .342 

Ingham 325 

Ingram 278 

Jack. Alex .342 

Elizabeth 342 

Jean 342 

Polly 342 

Capt. Samuel 342 
Jackson. Pres. 118, 
269. 

Belinda 281 

Betsey 282 

Clorinda 282 

Ephraim 333 

Esther W 282 

Hugh M 282 

John 77, 231 

Joseph 282 

Mary 282 

Morrison 282 

Samuel.. 282. 319 
William W. .. 282 
(See page 100.) 

Jaffrey, G 84 

George Jr 85 

James, P. W.. 342 

Harriet 223 

Hon. Jacob F. 223 
Capt. Jos. W. 65 

Joseph Y 342 

Martha Y.... 223 

Mary L 65 

Mary W 342 

Moses 223 

Thomas 334 

Jameson 77 

Jeameson 76 

Jeffers. C 334 

Martha E.... 342 

Martha P 342 

Richard M . . . 342 
R.... 161. 290, 342 

Sarah C 342 

Susan F 342 

William 342 

Jeffry 113 

Jenkins, M. J.. 249 

Peter 103 

Jenness. A. S. 342 
Abraham D. 342 

Catherine 342 

Daty D 342 

John S 342 

Dea. Jos. 141, 342 

Jennson 77 

Jewett, E 342 

Eunice 3'12 

George 342 

Mary .342 

Moses 342 

Nathaniel.... 342 
Dr. Thomas H. 122 

Jlrwen 76 

Johnson. .\. A.. 287 

A, p \n 



•?62 



WILL_E2''S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



Bartlett V>.... 342 

Clara 226 

Ebenezer 342 

Edward P.. .. 2ST 

Eliza A 342 

Gen 16 

Prank H 342 

F- J 342 

H 307 

Hannah 342 

J. W 23 

Jeremiah 249 

Jesse 287 

John B 342 

L/Ucinda 342 

Louisa 342 

Maria S 342 

Martha A 287 

■Mlary 349 

Nathan 342 

Polly 342 

Rebecca W. , . 287 

iSophia 342 

Stephen 342 

Sarah J gS) 

Dr. Samuel... 304 

Willie 342 

W. L, 342 

Johnston. D 77 

David 77 

Robert 77 

William 77 

Jones. A 36 

Betsey 343 

Daniel 36 

E 154, 175, 343 

Esther 36. 317 

Enoch 342 

Ezekiel 343 

Fanny 343 

Gilbert 343 

Henry 35 

Hepzibah 36 

Hugh 343 

Isaac H...129. 325 

Jesse 103, 154 

John 36 

Rev. John 196 

Joseph 343 

Joseph S 36 

Josiah .334 

Linda 343 

Margaret 329 

Margaret H.. 342 

Mary 342 

Mehitable 343 

Miranda 36 

Rebecca 154 

Van R 342 

William 343 

Jordan, Dora.. . 178 

Joseph 178 

Mrs. Joseph... 178 

Josselyn 102 

(See page 100.) 

Kairy 77 

Kancomagus... 195 

Kane 309 

Karr. A 343 

Clarissa.. .3.34, 343 

Daniel 324 

David. 121, 158, 343 
Elizabeth.. .93, 97 

Hannah 343 

Henry D 343 

John 343 

John Jr 343 

Luther B..334, 343 

(Margaret 343 

Mary 343 

Rebecca 343 

William 343 

William D 334 

Kast 343 

Kellar 329 

Kelley, C. J 134 

Daniel 171 

Ellen W 171 

Esther 343 

James .343 

Miabel 343 

Tryphena 343 

Kelly, E 178 



Elizabeth G.. 343 

Hannah 343 

Hannah H 312 

James 343 

John 229, 343 

John L 249 

John S 343 

Kate 178 

Mary A 178 

Rev. Samuel.. 196 

Susan 342 

Susan M 343 

Kelsey. Alex... 343 

Elizabeth 343 

Rev. H. L 196 

John 343 

Ida M 343 

Mary 343 

Walter A 343 

Kelso, Alex 343 

Mrs. Ann 343 

Miss Ann 343 

John 343 

John Jr 343 

William 343 

Kemp 196 

Kendall 167 

Kenedy. J. A 77 

Horgos 77 

Keniston 249 

Kennedy 91, 97 

270, 324. 

Kent, E. C 319 

Fred H 121 

J. Horace.... 64 

Lydia 183 

Mariner 343 

Moody 326 

Ker 76, 77 

Kershaw, H. ... ,343 

James 343 

Keyes, 7, 60, 83, 315, 
324 

Kid , 77 

Kidder, B.. 60, S3, 
234, 235, 324 

Joseph 60, S3, 

97, 319. 324 
Samuel P.. .. 319 

Killicut 103 

Kilpatrick 277 

Kimball, A. F. 343 

Abigail 343 

Adeline A.. .. 343 

Affa 343 

Amos 343 

Benjamin 343 

Charles F.. .. 343 

Celia B 329 

C 81 

Daniel 343 

Deborah 343 

Eliza A 343 

E. R 209 

George W 54 

Gilman H 249 

Isaac 224, 282 

Jason 329 

Judith 282 

Levi 329 

Lorenzo 343 

Margai-et .... 329 

Maria 282 

Mary A 343 

Orman D 343 

Polly C 343 

Rachel 343 

Rebecca 224 

Robert S 343 

Sarah J 282 

William E 343 

King, 

Charles II 86 

George I.. 78, 83, 
237, 252 

George II 86 

George III... 303 

Henry 327 

James II.. 32. 49 

James 77 

John 77 

Robert C .38 

Robert 7t' 



Kinney 288 

Kittridge 72 

Klein, C 343 

Elizabeth 343 

Frederick.... 343 

John H 343 

Joseph 343 

Ijizzie 343 

Knight, A 343 

A. B 343 

Asa P 29 

Emma L 343 

Georgietta.. .. 264 

Helen F 30, 31 

Lucy B 343 

Mary 122 

Wesley B 27, 29 

Knott 246 

Knowlton.. 293, 294 

Knox, J 77 

John 77 

O. D 196 

Robert 77 

Ladd, M 203 

Timothy 334 

Lafayette, 

Gen 22, 319 

Laidlay, J 76 

Lamniering, H. 343 

Joseph 343 

Lamont, J 76 

Robert 77 

Lanca.ster, J :03 

Lane, A. L 122 

Catherine 152 

Emma C 319 

Col. G. W. 21, 318, 
343 

General 238 

John 312 

Lucretia 312 

Polly 318 

Sarah 170 

Thomas B,. .. 318 

Langdon 296 

Larrabee, E. S. . 343 

George W 343 

William 343 

Lason, J 75 

Laws 178 

Lawson, E 282 

Catherine 282 

George 282 

William 282 

Leach, D. R. 80, 105, 
241 
Elizabeth P. . . 334 

Emily 343 

Emily L .343 

James 343 

Joseph 334 

Joseph, Jr.... 343 
Capt. Joseph. 343 

Martha 343 

Mary 334 

Olive 334 

William. .. 76. 343 

Leland 343 

Leo XIII, Pope. 109 

Learnard 248 

Learned 122 

Leonard 151 

Lenox 76 

Leslie, Sir J. 60, S3, 
204, 237, 324 

John 76 

Lessard, Rev. A, 311 

Lewis, D 2"^ 

E 155 

George W 196 

Homer P ]20 

Libby, 29 

Liggett, 84, 214, 232 

324 
Lincoln, Pres... 248 
296, .303, 31S 

Lindsay, D 76 

James. 60, 83, 160 
204, 237, 324, 343 

Martha 343 

Little, C 346 

Ellen E 36 

George W.. .. 121 



Henry A 346 

Margaret . . . . 343 

Matthew 343 

Robert E 346 

Littlefleld, J. C. 315 

Mary E 315 

Livermore 320 

Livingstone.. .. 103 

Logan .343 

Long 86 

Longa 249, 303 

Longfellow, 

H. W 12s 

Loi-d. H. D 273 

Harry T 273 

Juliette 273 

Keturah 342 

Mary 203 

Matthew 77 

Samuel D 107 

Samuel J 273 

Susan B 273 

Suiioway 107 

Lorie 77 

Lossing 310 

Loud 55 

Louis, XIV. of 

France 50 

Lovewell 98 

Low, A. E 343 

David B 343 

Capt. Eleazer 343 

Elezier 343 

George H 343 

George M 343 

Hannah 343 

John H 343 

Mary A 343 

Mary P 343 

Sarah 343 

Wesley 343 

Lowd, M 3.34 

Susan F 3.34 

William B 334 

Lowell 249 

Lunt, Rev, A. R 246 

Aaron 242 

Charles 242 

Lutwyche,..226. 322 

Lyon, F 155 

Rev, John J... 178 

Mary 229 

William 103 

Mack, A.... 329, 334 
A. W. 81, 149. 236 
242, 323 

Annie 242 

Anna B 149 

Archibald.. .. 103 
Elizabeth.. .. 334 

Irene 343 

Isabella. , 149, 329 

Isabella A 242 

Jane 242, 334 

John 117, 149, 329, 

343 

John P. . . 149, 242 

Joseph 103 

Lavinia P 149 

Letitia 334 

Lillian W 149 

Robert.. 103, 106, 

149, 158, 204, 242 

329 

Robert C. 81, 149, 

231, 242, 306. 307. 323 

W. P. 58. 149, 236 

R. W 149 

(See 34) 

Madden, I6I 

Madison 151 

Major, A. H 343 

Harriet D 343 

John 343 

Joseph A 343 

Lynda 343 

Martha 343 

Persis D 343 

Philip 343 

Rachel 343 

Rebecca 266 

Thomas P 343 



Mailer, H 343 

James 343 

Malvern 261 

Mann 329 

March, Benj 334 

Elmira 334 

Hannah C 334 

Henry 199, 334 

Dea. John 158, 334 

Mary 334 

Morris 334 

Polly ^„4 

Rand S 334 

Sarah 334 

Marden 2-.o 

Marsh, A. 334 

Ephraim 343 

Israel 3,34 

Letitia 334 

Mary ^ 334 

Mary D 334 

Lieut. Samuel 334 

Sarah J 334 

William B. . .. 334 
Marshall. A. J.. 343 

Charles H 320 

David 103 

Hannah B 343 

James P 343 

Joshua .J 

Louisa .343 

Nathaniel J.. 343 

Samuel 343 

Samuel Jr 343 

Sarah 343 

William 343 

Martin, A. C. . . 31 
Capt. Jacob.. 343 

'-ucy 343 

Marshall 289 

Peter 282 

Mashure, 278 

Marston, 28 

Mason, A. E.... 86 

Capt. John 84. 271 

Capt. J. T.. 85, S9 

Robert T.... 85, 89 

Massachusetts 

Indian 191 

Masten 197 

Martha C 328 

Rev. Dr 100 

Matthews, S. S. 155 

H. C 343 

M. P 343 

S. M 343 

Maurault, 190, 

M.iy, H 343 

Jonathan.. 288, 343 

M 288, 343 

Maynard 203 

Mayo, J. W.... 343 

Rev. W. A 156 

Mt. Aferson 292 

McAlben 76 

McAllister, B.H 92 

Benjamin 242 

Caroline C. .. 92 
Caroline S.. .. 242 

Chas 26, 55, 163 

David 235, 324 

George 76 

George 1 92 

Harold C 92 

Heniderson . . . 343 

Henry 2.51 

Isaac. 158, 317, .343 
Capt. Isaac. 343 

Jane 99 

John 343 

Jonathan.. 92, 235 
317. 

Mlron B 196 

/Sarah 343 

Dr. Thomas S. 117 

William 117 

(See pages 34, 133, 
234.) 

McBride 76 

MoCane 155 

r'McCay 324 

McCarter, H 343 



George W.. .. 343 

iSarah 343 

Sophia 343 

Robert 343 

McCartney, A.. 343 

Katrina 343 

Martha 343 

MoCleary, A 334 

Chajrles 282 

Capt. David.. 117 
282. 334. 

Eleanor 282 

Elizalbeth ,117 

Jane H 282 

Jane S 117 

John 117, 282 

Major 293 

Mary 117 

Lieut. Thomas 
117. 103, 282. 

McClellan 180 

McClenche, E. . . 118 

John 118 

Martha lis 

MoCluer, A 343 

James 103 

Martha 343 

Robert 103 

McClurg, D 103 

John 84, 94, 103 

160. 233. 324. 

MIcColby 1256 

MeCollom, A... 118 
232. 
Archibald.... 118 

Elizabeth 343 

Fanny 334 

Rev. James T. 106 
120. 

tiannet lis 

Janet us 

Jonathan 343 

Lydia 343 

Martha. ..lis, .343 
Lieut. Robert. 118 
15S, 343. 

William ,118 

(See page 34.) 
McConoghy.. ..8, 84 

94, 324. 
McCurdy, A.. .. 232 

James 324 

Jenet 56 

McDonald, J 292 

John 145 

Rev. William 145 
178. 

Winifred 143 

McDole 70 

McDuffee. C. D. 320 
Daniel. 83. 154, 214 
217, 270, 324, 343. 

Hugh 217 

John 217 

Ruth 217, 343 

MoFader 77 

MoFarland, 

Rev. Asa 119 

And rew 343 

Mary 343 

Robert 343 

McPee 77 

McGaw, A 343 

'Hannah 343 

John 322 

Thomas 343 

McGivorn 76 

MoGlauglan..84. 91 

324. 
McGregor, A.. . 70 
Alexander 69, 77. 
118, 344 

Alanson T 343 

A. C 343 

Augusta M. .. 224 

Betsey 70 

Rev. David . . . 65, 
70, 80, 139, 158, 204, 
221, 334, 343 
David, Jr.... 344 

Eliza J 70 

Elizabeth H.. 139 



WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIBLD. 



Elizabeth R.. 140 

Elizabeth 3-13 

Emma 334 

Etta R 334 

Prancina 334 

George 344 

George F 224 

George R . . . . 341! 

Gracie 224 

Harriet L 334 

Helen 343 

Isabella 69 

Rev. James S. 12. 
-31. 49, 58, 65, 78, 
91, 136, 144, 160, 
164, 187, 204, 214, 
221. 245, 257, 270, 
287, 324, 343 
Ensign Jas. 20S 
James, Jr.. . . 69 
20S, 343 

Jane S44 

Jane P 344 

Janet 69 

Jennet 70 

John 70 

John A 70 

John P.... 70, 118 
Lewis A.. 70, 344 

Mai-garet 344 

Maria 139 

Marion 343 

Mary 118. .343 

Mary A.. . 70, 139 

Mary B 140 

Maryetta 334 

Maryanne .... 344 

Nancy 344 

Polly 70 

Rev. Robert.. 128 
Col. Robert . , 70, 
140, 343 

Rhoda A 224 

Rosanna.. 69, 344 

Sarah 344 

Sarah W 344 

Stephen 344 

Susannah 138. 344 

Susan 70. 71 

William,. 224, 242 
(See 100, 222, 230.) 
McIntire,A. W. 127 

Amos 127 

Eliza 212 

Erma 278 

Joseph 212 

Lewan 278 

Mary 127 

Nathaniel 278 

'William j 278 

McKane 77 

McKeen. Adam 344 

Annas 344 

Annis 334 

Betsey 334 

Daniel, Jr 334 

Elizabeth.... 334 
James.. 7, 11, 51, 
61, 76, 78, 81, 91. 
95, 113, 159, 204, 
213. 216, 270, 324, 
344 

James, Jr 344 

Jane C 344 

Janet.. 60, 83, 94, 
97, 324. 344 

Jaunette 344 

John 60, 77, 83, 94. 
97, 204, 208. 324, 
344 

Martha 344 

Mary.... 334. 344 

Maryanne 344 

Peggy 344 

Robert 60, 77, 83, 
94, 97, 160, 324 
Samuel 60, S3, 94, 
97, 324, 334, 344 
(See 34.) 

McKendry 344 

McKenney, A. 164, 
344 
Andrew J. 282. 344 



Angle 282 

Betsey 344 

Julia P 344 

Rev. L. F.... 261 

Mary A 344 

Walter E 344 

William H... 344 

McLaren. C .344 

James 344 

McKay. A. M... 242 

Arthur E 242 

James W 242 

.McKey. Rev. E. D 
178 

John 103 

McKerrall 77 

James 77 

McLaughlin, G. 76 

John 78 

Lawrence.... 76 

iV-^hard 76 

Thomas 77 

McMillan... 25 19-) 
McMun... ' 77 

McMurphy,...' A p 
277. 344 ■ ■ 

Alexander 84, 158 
161, 201, 213, 232' 
253, 274. ,324, 334, 
344 

Alexander R.. 232 
Alex Jr.... 232, 344 
Alexander J.. 67 

Alice 231. 344 

Alice H... 280, 344 
Alice J.... 231, 34-' 
Angeline.. 276, 344 

Archibald 208 

253, 344 
Archibald Jr. 232 

Dea. Benj log 

219, 231, 278, 334, 

344 

Benj.. Jr. 278, 334 

Benjamin P.. 231 

Betsey 203, 231 

Carrie 203 

Caroline 203 

Charles 344 

Charles A 203 

Charles E 203 

Christine 232 

Daniel 232 

Darwin 203 

David 203 

David Jr 203 

David E 203 

Ebenezer 344 

Eliza 280 

Eliza A 344 

Eliza J 276, 344 

Elizabeth 232, 255 
Emma C..276. 344 

Prank 17s 

Frederick F.. 203 

Gardner 203 

Gardner E. .. . 203 
Geo... 103, 203, 231 

George F 344 

George S 203 

George W 203 

Gi-ace E 203 

Hannah . . . 278, .334 

Hannah J 275 

Harriet M 203 

Hattie M 203 

Henry J... 277, 344 

Isabel 232 

Isabella \. ... 334 
Dr. James .... 203 
James.... 161, 203, 
215, 231, 267, 277, 
344 

James, 2nd 203, 
2.31. 232, 269, 334, 
344 

James D 231 

Jane 203, 231, 232, 
328, 334 

Jane R 277, 344 

Jane S 344 

Jean 231, 232 



Jennet 231 

Jennette 334 

Jennie A 203 

Jenny 231 

Jerome C 67 

Rev. J. G. ..7, 59 

65, 91, 1,58, 213, 233, 

253, 257, 271, 276, 

323. 

Squire John 11, 

60. S3, 97, 161, 167, 

203, 214, 255. 258, 

324, 344. 

John Jr. . . 203 

231, 344. 

John B. ..231, 344 

John F 232 

Julian 203 

Julia A 344 

Laura L 203 

Lydia F 344 

Maria D 203 

Mary 224, ''31 

278, 344. 

Mary C. ..203, 232 

Mary E 203 

Mary L 66, 67 

Mary T 344 

Mary W.. 231. 344 

Molly 2.32 

Nancy 203 

Polly 203 

Polly J 344 

Polly S .344 

Peggy.. 203, 231 

334. 

Lieut, Robert 

103, 203, 208, 23-' 

344. 

Robert Jr 232, 344 

Rebecca C. .. 231 

Rebecca. 231, ,344 

Sadie 276. 344 

Sally 203 

Sarah ... 203 23'' 

276, 334 

Sarah A. G. 275 

344. 

Sarah C . . . . 344 

Sarah J 278 

Sarah Reid.. 344 
Sarah Russell 67 

Silas D 344 

Susan C. 334, 344 

Theresa 203 

Thomas E 203 

Willie I7g 

\Vm. 103, 203, 232 
344. 

William Jr... 232 
William A.. . 231 
344 

(See 100) 
McNeal or McNeill. 
Alex... 60, 83. 214 
216, 324. 344. 

Daniel 344 

Elizabeth.. .. 344 

Hannah 344 

James.. 12, S3 91 
213, 324. 

Jean 344 

John.. 83, 216, 324, 
344. 

Mary 222. 243 

Peisis T 344 

Rachell 243 

Robert 344 

William.. 221, 344 
McPheadris. .. 84 

McQuaid 109 

McOuesten.. .. 185 

George 108 

.Tames 344 

Judith 344 

Lucinda G... .344 

Margery 344 

Mary E 185 

Mellen R 344 

and Co lOS 

Mead 122 

Means, J 121 

Robert 249 



Willard G.... 120 

William G 121 

Mear 77 

Mellen 121 

Melendy 243 

Mellows 237 

Melvin, A.. 175, 344 

Eliza A 344 

George B.. .. 344 

Jane D 344 

Prescott .334 

Richard.. 269, 344 

Thomas J.. .. 121 

Menter, A. L. .. 334 

Allen 334 

Daniel 334 

Hetty 334 

Jabesh 334 

James 334 

Jane H 334 

Phineas 334 

Philena 334 

Sarena 3.34 

Willie J 3.34 

Merrick. J. L. .. 282 

Nancy C 282 

Merrill, Abel 8. 11 
S3. 324 

Abram 254 

Arthur 344 

Arthur L .344 

Austen G 344 

Benjamin. 129, 344 

Betsey 344 

Edwin 344 

Emma E 334 

Ida 334 

Jane 344 

John. 100, 334, 344 

Maria J 344 

Mary 344 

Nehemiah 334 

Paulina L 334 

Rebecca 70 

Sarah D 344 

Sarah G 344 

Sarah P 344 

William 344 

Meserve, Capt.. 85 
Messer, C. .. 118, 290 

Ira A 344 

Lydia 131 

Mary \\% 

Moses 151 

Moses W lis 

Metcalf 202 

Miller, A 344 

Alice E isi 

Jason Y 122 

John 77 

Martha W . . . . 344 

Narcissa 344 

Robert. 76, 91. 324 

William 289 

(See page 235.) 
Mills. Rev. P. E. 206 

Hugh 344 

Lydia 344 

Sarah E 344 

Miltimore. A. .. 344 

Col. D 103. .344 

Daniel J 344 

Elias B .344 

Elizabeth 344 

James 344 

James, Jr ,344 

Janet 344, ,345 

John H 344 

Leonard H.... 344 

Martha 344 

Samuel D 344 

Sarah 344 

Rev. William. 344 

William H S-iJ 

William. Jr... %i\ 

Mitchell. A 345 

Eleanor 345 

Eunice 56 

Francis 118 

Capt. John. 8, 11, 
65, 76, S3. 91, 162, 
258, 270, 324, 345 

Margaret 118 

Samuel 345 



Watt 11, 

Moffatt, J S3 

Mohawk India's 195 

Mogoon 55 

Montgomery, E. 345 

Lieut. Hugh.. 60. 

- 81. 103, 214, 324, 3<<5 

Jane .34.- 

John ; .345 

Rebecca 345 

Robert, Jr.. . 34-, 

.345 

Dea. Robert.. 141 

Peggy 34J, 

Mary W 34'; 

Mary 34.-, 

Martin 103 

J. Edgar 19s 

Gen. William. .345 
Moody. F.D.... 90 

Howard G 90 

Mary C 90 

Nancy J 90 

Volney H S9 

Moar. B. H 99 

Harriet L 243 

Hattie E 243 

Joshua A... 99, 243 

Lovina W 243 

Mary A.... 99. 114 

Timothy 99 

(See 167) 

Mooers 266 

Moor, Prof. D "s 
222 

John 70 

Capt. John 208 
322 

Capt. Robert 208 
Moore. A... .334, 345 

Alice J 177 

Amelia A 334 

Elder A 345 

Ann 345 

Bailey igs 

Catherine 34.-, 

Cinderella J.. 177 

Daniel 334 

Elizabeth lis. 334 

Eupheme 345 

Prank J .334 

George 345 

Hannah .345 

Harriet 345 

Henry 34.^ 

Henry Jr 345 

Hugh 118 

Rev. Humphrey 

36 

Elder James 60. 

77, 83, 103, 121, 176, 

334, .345 

James 3d 345 

Jane 345 

Janet ,345 

Jenet 345 

Capt. John 11, 83, 
1.58, 176. 230, ..,, 
295, 334, 345 
John Jr.... 334. 345 

John 3d 345 

John A 176. 177 

John C 312 

Josiah 345 

Joseph 290 

Letitia 345 

Margaret 334 

Martha 334 

Mary 334. 345 

Mary A 345 

MaiT J 334 

Martin L 3.34 

Nancy 345 

Nancy E..176, 177 

Nettie O J77 

Dea. Robert.. 345 
Col. Robert... .345 

Sally 345 

Samuel 12. 61. 85. 
97, 161, 213, 270, 
324, 345 

Sarah 334 

Sarah A 202 



Sarah B 345 

Sarah H 345 

Sarah R 345 

Thomas 77 

Dea. Tho. T.. 69 

Thomas M 334 

William... 103, 345 
Capt, William 
118, 334 
Lt. William... 334 

Morduck 77 

Morey igg 

Morieson, J,,..! 77 

James 2d 77 

Morrill, E .' 345 

M. A 345 

„^-: S45 

Morrison, A 114 

Albert A.. 209, 258 

Alfred B 34,5 

Ann 345 

Ann 2d 34.r, 

Belinda C 243 

Betsey .345 

C. J 209 

David 80, 94, 160 
204, 231, 324, 334-. 
345 

Dea David 345 

David Jr 345 

D. S 209 

Eliza 334 

Elizabeth 345 

Emma E 241 

Ezekiel 81 

Dea. Halbert. 345 
Halbert Jr. 81, 345 
Halbert 3d ... . 345 

Harriet 345 

345. 

James.. 8. 11. 83, 91 
103. 209, 257. 324. 

Jane 334. 345 

Jannette 345 

Jean 345 

Jennet 345 

Jenet .334 

Jeremiah 209 

John.. 7. 61, 68. 80 
91, 103, 158, 217, 243 
257, 324. 334, 345 
John Jr.68, SO. 345 

Capt. John 345 

Jonathan. ... 68 
Joseph. 80. 217. 345 

Joseph Jr .345 

Hon. L. A.. 81. 162 
209, 267. 
Margaret.. 68. 3.34 

Mary 334, .345 

Mary 2d 345 

Mary 3d 345 

Mary A.. 234, 345 

Martha 80. 81 

'Rebecca,. 334, 345 

Robert.. 60, SO. 158 

204. 214. 221. 324 

334, 345. 

Elder Robert. 158 

334. 

R. P 81 

Samuel.. 80, 94, 160 
209. 231. 276. 324 
334, 345. 
Dea. Samuel.. 345 

Samuel Jr 345 

Samuel 3d 345 

Sarah C 215 

Sarah D 345 

Sarah M 66 

Capt. Thomas 81 
345. 

Rev. William. 81 
102. 119. 158. 204 
218. 248. 277. 3.34. 
345. 
(See page 100.) 

Morrow. E 345 

Rev. James.. 196 

Morse. A 345 

Alfred E..172, 173 
Alice 345 



364 



WIL LET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



Alice D 345 

Alice G 345 

Almira 2S2 

Arthur 345 

Etta F 173 

Hannah 345 

Hajttie 345 

Humphrey... 345 
John.. 173, 282, 290 

Joseph 345 

Joseph Jr.... 345 

Joshua 345 

Louis W 251 

Luther W 345 

Lydia 345 

Margaret H ... 288 

Marean 1 251 

Mary. 282. 288, 345 

Mary E 345 

Mary L 251 

Mary M 173 

Meriam 334 

Moody 345 

Dr. Moody 345 

Nathan 345 

Dea. Robert.. 141 

345. 

Robert Jr. 141, 345 

Stephen.. 290, 334 

William T.... 251 

Morton 191, 345 

Moses 338, 345 

Mottram, J 243 

Mary 243 

M. H 243 

Moulton, Mace. 249 

Asa D 345 

H. K 345 

Muar 7S 

Mullins 282 

Murdock, C. H.. 343 

John 77 

John C 345 

Lucy M 345 

Robert 77 

Steven 77 

Muree 77 

Murray, J 324 

John 77 

Peter 77 

Myers 260 

Namkekes, 

Indians 190 

Namoskeag 

Indians 193 

Narragansett 

Indians 189 

Nashaway 

Indians 193 

Neal 345 

Neale 99 

Nellie 76 

Nelson, J. P.... 266 

Sarah C 266 

Sarah E 266 

Nesmith, A. A. 224 

Albert S 345 

Annis 345 

Annis W.. :. 345 
Arthur. . . 103, 345 
Arthur M. ... 345 
Benjamin.. .. 103 
Charles E.... 345 

Cvrus 224 

Eliza G. P... 345 
Elizabeth.. .. .345 
Elizabeth 2d 345 
Elizabeth 3d. 345 
George R . . . . 345 
Isabella A.... 345 
Jacob M.. ..345 
James.. 7. 12, 76, 
83, 91, 103, 15S, 204. 
282, 324, 334, 345. 
Dea. James 334. 
345. 

James Jr. 103, 15S, 
334, 345. 

James A 345 

James P 345 

James W 343 

Jane 345 

Jane 2nd '''■^■' 



Jane 3d 343 

Lieut. Gov. 

John 81 

John 103, 208, 345 

John Jr 345 

John P 345 

Jonathan W. 343 
Jonathan Y.. 224 

Lucian H 224 

Lucy 345 

Lucy M 345 

LUIzetah 224 

Lydiah 224 

Lydia S 345 

Martha H 345 

Mary 282, 334, 345 
Mary 2nd.... 345 

Mary 3d 345 

Nancy B 224 

Oreal 224 

Samuel H . . . . 345 

Sarah F 282 

Susan H 345 

Capt. Thomas 121 
Thomas Jr. .. 345 
(See 100) 
Nevins, H. A.. 334 
Dea. James.. 158 
334. 

James E 334 

John 334 

Mary P 334 

Ralph 290 

Sarah E 334 

William P.... 134 
Newell, 
Rev. John P. 120, 
123. 

William P. .. 320 
(See 269) 

Nice 171 

Nichols. A 346 

Alex.. 83, 91, 217 
270, 324, 346. 
Amanda B. .. 346 
Andrew J.... 343 

Ann 345 

Col 297 

Caroline 346 

Charles E.... 346 
Clarissa M . . . 346 
Charlotte.. .. 346 

Cora 343 

Ensign S 334 

Ellsworth P.. 346 

Eliza K 346 

Emily C 345 

Emily W.. .. 345 
Ephraim E . . 345 
Francis W. . . 343 

Helen A 345 

Lieut. Jacob 282, 

334. 

James 11, 83, 91, 

216, 270, 324, .331, 

346. 

James Jr . . . . 346 

Jane 346 

John K 346 

Jonathan 334, 343 
Jonathan B.. 345 
Jonathan L.. 346 
Jonathan P.. 346 
Rev. J. H . . . . 289 
Leonard D. .. 346 
Margaret . . . . 346 
Mary .... 334^ . 346 

Rebecca 343 

R. J 346 

Sally 334, 340 

Samuel 346 

Sarah 334 

Sarah G 3i6 

William 83, 91, 258, 
270, 324 

Willie 334 

Woodburn 346 

Nipmuck Indi's 191 
Nipnet Indians. 191 
Nonalencet In's 192 
Norcross, G. N.. 224 

Joshua L 224 

Norris 196 

Northey 89 



Nowell, B. A.... 346 

Elizabeth 346 

Frederick 346 

James 346 

Jane 3'6 

Joseph N 346 

Capt. N 346 

Nathaniel. Jr. 346 

Philip 267 

Samuel 346 

Noyes, A. P 224 

Annie E 316 

Benning 224 

Carlos W 334 

Charles M 243 

Clara J 334 

Daniel 89 

Ella L 224 

Eva F 224 

Francis S 346 

Freddie 224 

George N 260 

Hattie M 334 

Ira W 346 

James 89, 155 

Rev. James... 346 

J. M 224 

Hon. J. W. 88, 120 

Joseph 334 

Joseph 1 224 

Marietta J.... 346 

Mary 224 

Mary B 224 

Melinda 317 

Moses .346 

Nancv W 89 

Sally W 346 

Sophronia I.. 346 
Sylvester C... 224 

Warren W 334 

W. 209 

Nutt, E. A 319 

William... 91, 324 

Nutter 245, 2^6 

Nye 25 

O'Brien 178, 251 

O'Callaghan.... 311 

O'Connor, C. .. 152 

Rev. W. J. 152, 178 

Timothy 152 

Odiorne, J 65 

Jotham, Jr. . . . 83 

Oesterlein 277 

O'Hala 208 

O'Hanlon 283 

Oliphant 121 

Oliver 121 

Onstott 156 

Oram, H. H 346 

W. H 346 

Ordway, D 346 

Enoch 346 

Enoch, Jr 346 

Mary E 346 

Orr, B 76 

Hugh 77 

James 3'i6 

Jean 3'<6 

Joan 346 

John . . 76. 103. .346 

Lucy 346 

Mary 70 

Patrick 76 

Susannah 346 

Thomas 77 

William. .. 76. 346 

Osgood, A 34C 

George N 152 

Jeremiah 324 

W. B 153 

Oughterson. 34, lis 

Ouston 77 

Owens.. 161, 178, 263 

Packard 120 

Packer 84 

Page or Paige, 

Amos 334 

Calvin 92 

Charles P 334 

Daniel P 346 

Darius 282 

Elizabeth.. 17, 334 

Joel 282 

Joseph.... 334, 162 



John M 346 

Leonard 224 

Margaret.. .. 334 

Mary 346 

Mary A 334 

Mehitable.. .. 334 

Paul 334 

Rachel 282 

Rev. Reed.. .. 127 

Samuel 334 

Sarah 1st 334 

Sarah 2nd 334 

Sarah 3d 334 

Serena 334 

Zenetta N 334 

(See 'lOO) 

Paine, Prof, 

John K 329 

i'almer, Benj... 346 
Benjamin Jr.. 346 
Col. C. F... 62. 346 

David C 346 

Elizabeth.. .. 346 
Elizabeth C... 346 

Evelyn 346 

Geoffrey 86 

Hannah 346 

Elder James.. 346 

James 155 

Dea. James 346 

John 151, 346 

John C 346 

John H 122 

John M 346 

John T 346 

J. F 1^4 

L. A. E 346 

Mabel H 346 

Mary 346 

Mary 2na 346 

Mary E 346 

Meriam E 346 

Nathaniel. 62. 346 

Sally 346 

Sarah 346 

Thomas 346 

Thomas Jr 346 

Thomas H.... 346 
Thomas H. Jr. 346 
Wallace H.... 346 
William H. ... 346 

Park. Alex 346 

Elizabeth N.. 346 

John A 81, 258 

Margaret . . . . 346 
"\A'illiam 77 

Parker. A. A. 183, 
241 

Charles C 346 

C. C 141 

Charles E 121 

Edward 185 

Rev. Edw. L. 12, 
26, 92, 98, 119, 128, 
137, 141, 144, 161, 
199, 226, 278, 346 
Edward P 121, 346 
Elizabeth 131, 346 

Esther 334 

Frank W.. 21, 141 

George 346 

George C 346 

Granville.. .. 121 
Harriet M.... 346 
Haywood B.. 121 

Henry C 122 

Henry S 229 

J. A.. 121, 211, 346 

John Esq 290 

John 346 

John H 346 

John J 346 

Jonas 249 

Lauraetta — 242 
Rev. L. S. 69. 120, 
144, 229 

Lois M 346 

Lucy 346 

De;, Matthew 211 
Meh. fable K, 346 
Hon. N. 212. 242 
Dea, Nath'l.. 121 
219 



Prof 72 

Sarah T.. 141, 346 

Susan 346 

Susan C 346 

Walter M. ... 211, 
320 

William 103 

(See 230.) 

Parkhurst 153 

Parkinson, C... 311 
Henry 56, 58, 103 

Jenett M 56 

Parmerton 171 

Parsons, 

Rev. B. F.120, 123 

Caroline M.. 346 

Caroline N... 25 

Rev. E. G. 25, 119, 

219 

Frances A . . .. 346 

Hon. F. N.... 123 

Maria S 25 

Marv N 122 

S. D 122 

Parshley. G. A. 346 
Lavina N.. .. 346 

Seth W 346 

Pascataqua In. 190 
Passaconaway 190 

Pattrick 77 

Patrick 203 

Patsuikets In. 195 
Patten. Alex... 255 

Betsey 255 

Elizabeth 2.55 

James 255 

Jane 255, 346 

John of Bed- 
ford 255 

Dea. John 346 

John, Jr 346 

Serg. John 103 

Lucy N 346 

Lydia 255 

Martha 346 

Mary 255 

Mary J 346 

Hon. Matthew 
232, 254 

Robert 255 

Sarah 255 

Samuel 346 

Susannah.... 2.55 
William B.... 2« 
(See 230.) 
Patterson, 

Alex 76. 80 

David.... 76. 243 
Elizabeth 118, 243 
Elizabeth W. 32S 
Lieut. Gov. 

G. W 122 

George W.... 334 
Grisel.... 243. 334 

H 243, 334 

H. D 328, 334 

Hannah E... 329 
Hon. J. W. 33, 210 

James 76, 81 

James, Jr. . .. 346 

James B 346 

Jane 243 

Jane D 149 

Jean 346 

John 81. 103 

John D.. 231, 329 

Margaret 243 

Mary 243 

Mary C 334 

Ninian 76 

Peter.... 118, 208, 

235, 328 

Maj. Peter... 329 

Rachel 243 

Robert.... 80, 138 
Robert W.... 121 

Samuel 3''6 

Samuel. Jr... 3J6 
Sarah.... 2 '3. 3,'6 
Dea. Thomas 81. 
Thomas, Jr.. 331 
William ... 77. 329 
{See SO.) 



Pawtucket In.. 19J 

Payne, A 346 

Anna M 346 

Bertha M 346 

Ethel M 278 

Frank E 346 

George 278 

Harry N 278 

John 346 

John P 346 

Johnny 346 

Maroia 243 

Ronald 278 

Peabody, A 334 

E,?tsey 346 

Brinsley 340 

Idae 334 

James N 334 

Maria M 334 

Marinda 241 

Orville A 334 

Willie W 334 

Pearson 256 

Peasley 346 

Pedrick 334 

Pelton, A M.... 243 

L. S 334 

S. H 334 

Perahallow, 62, 84, 

320, 326, 324 
Pennacook In.. 190 
Penniman.--.32, 143 
Perham, C. A... 346 

Rev. E 346 

Jane 346 

Mary 346 

Robert 290 

Perkins, A. B,. 278 

Charles E 243 

David ^49 

David F 278 

Elizabeth 127, 241 

Emma J 31 

Dr, F. B 177 

Franklin 334 

George W . . . . 35 
Hannah J. . .. 177 

Harriet L 243 

Hattie L 243 

James.... 127, 334 

Jane Y 243 

Dea, John 35 

Joseph 334 

Marian 278 

Mary 346 

Orrin H 177 

Sarah 334 

Sarah 2d 334 

Sarah 3d...... 334 

Stephen S.... 346 

Washington 162, 

243, 223 

(See 100) 

Perley 56 

Perry, A. S 278 

A. F ISO, 226 

Pert 206 

Pettee, C, S.... 201 

S 346 

Pettey 76 

Pettengill, B... 132 

Eliza A 282 

Elizabeth 282 

Emeline...247, 282 

Henry E 282 

Hugh 282 

Isabel 282 

Jane 282 

Nancy M 224 

Phineas 282 

Sarah E 282 

Capt. W 282 

Pflster 298, 301 

Phillips 237, 324 

Philbrick C 98 

■ Nathan 98 

Pierce, D 86 

Pres. Franklin 
128, 235, 250, 312 

Joshua S3 

Nancy W 226 

Stephen 60. S4, 
213, 234, 324 



WILLBTS BOOK OF NUTFIRLD. 



PiKeon, Dr. J.. \fl 

Pike 107 

Eben 334 

Rev. James.. 196 

Mary A 334 

Mary C 334 

Pickering 334 

Pilling 47 

Pillsbury. A. D. 173 
Adoniram J.. 2S2 

Alice E 181 

Anna 334 

Annie B 291 

Arthur A 334 

Arthur F 34G 

Chas. G. 173, 181 
Charles H. L. 47 
Charles S. 81, 172, 
173, ISl. 235 
Mrs. C. S.... 172 

Clara A 346 

Capt. Elipha. 346 

Elizabeth 346 

Enoch 121 

Evelyn S 288 

Fred C 155 

Fred S 289 

Hannah 334 

Harriet L. 47, 149 

John A 243 

John T 334 

Capt. L. H. .. 93. 
173, 28S 

Lois C 346 

Lovina H 282 

Martha E.... 334 

Mary 243 

Mary A 346 

Mary C 181 

Gen. M. A... 173 

Moody 173 

Mehitahle C. 346 
Moses C. l.^il. 346 
R. W. 29, 47. 291 
Rev. S. 46, 2S2, 334 

Thomas 346 

Ulysses G 47 

Hon. W. S. 40, 64. 
89, 127, 149. 171, 
291, 313 

W. W. H 155 

Hardy 261 

Co 64 

(See 100. 121.) 
Pinkerton, B.. 346 

Charles 346 

C 346 

David lis 

David H. 120, 346 
Elizabeth.... 118 

E 335 

E. A 346 

E. N 346 

E. N. P 346 

F. R 122 

George W.... 346 
Geo. W., Jr. 346 

H 346 

I.sabella 335 

Dea. James . . 80. 
121, 158, 212. 277. 
334 

Elder James. 119 
James, Jr.... 335 

Jane 346 

John, Sr. 118, 124, 

324 

Lieut. John.. 55. 

121, 158. 240, 334 

Maj. John 69, 118, 

161, 208, 315 

Ensign J, A. 3.35 

John H 346 

John M. .. 25, 115, 
125 

Jedediah 335 

Martha 346 

Mary lis 

Mary 2nd 335 

Mary A 335 

Mary P 122 

Matthew SS.^ 

Naflmi 11 < 



Polly 70 

Rachel 11.8 

Rebecca 101 

Rebecca W . . . 346 

Samuel 118 

Sarah 124, 335 

William W 346 

Piper 196 

'Pitblado 196 

Platts II) 

Plimpton 346 

Plummer, 

Capt. Abel 241 

Abigail 244 

A. C 243, 245 

Arley.243, 271, 244 

Eliza 244 

Eliza P 244 

E. P 243 

Elmira 241 

Elmira E 244 

Emma 245 

iGov 151 

George 235 

G. F 81, 244 

Hale 244 

John 151 

Capt. John A. 243 

Judith C 21 

Kate E. H... 29 

Laura A 245 

Lydia C 243 

Mary 244 

Mary N 244 

Nancy 244 

Dr. Nathan. 21. 243 

Persis 244 

Sarah 244 

'Susan 244 

Warren 244 

William 19, 132 

158, 244, 269. 
Poland. Prof... 72 
Rev. James W 122 

Polk 188 

Poole 148 

Poor, C. A 328 

Daniel 327 

iDavid 327 

Capt. John C.327 
346. 

John M 327 

Jonathan 327 

Roger 327 

Susan W 346 

Wallace W.72. 95 
128, 167, 201, 327. 
Porter. H. M. H. 347 
John... 76. 119, 347 
John Jr.. 121. 347 
Potter.. 191. 193, 249 

Powell 347 

Powers 251 

Prang 310 

Pratt. D. C 121 

H. M 121 

N. P 121 

Prentice, Judge 319 

John 347 

George 347 

Hannah 347 

Mary 347 

N. P. S 347 

Ruth 347 

Ruth L 347 

Susan 347 

Tabitha 347 

(See page 230.) 
Prescott. Col.. 293 

Daniel R 249 

Elizabeth G.. 122 

Nathan K..80, 120 

Pressey, A. A... 263 

Albert L 347 

Amelia 347 

L. H ,347 

Preston 149 

Priest, C 223 

H 223 

James 347 

John H 347 

G 181 



Prince ,")0 

Proctor. A,. 65, 307 
Capt. B.. 121. 347 
Benjamin D.. 347 

Betsey A 347 

Clara E 347 

Eleanor 347 

Emma 347 

Eunice 347 

Edw ... 60, 83, 324 

Isaac 347 

Jacob 347 

Joseph 65 

Lois 347 

Louise 347 

Mary 347 

Rachel 347 

Silas 347 

William 121 

Putnum... 123, 219 
Quimby, John.. 156 

Michael 155 

Rev. Silas 196 

Radcliffe, A 347 

Charles B 347 

H. A 347 

Raniadge 76 

Ramsay, A 347 

Hugh.... 231, 324 

James - 77 

James 2nd.. .^208 

John 77 

John 2nd ^103 

Lydia 346 

Thomas 76 

Rametti 347 

Ramsden 155 

Rand, J ,347 

Mary 347 

Samuel 347 

Randall, A 335 

Alice P 335 

Ira C 122 

Hannah 335 

Hannah E. .. 335 

Randolph 23 

Rankin, A 347 

Alex 324, 347 

Hugh 347 

Mary 347 

Mary T 347 

Samuel. 160, 164 
217, 324. 

Sarah 232 

William .347 

Rann 301 

Rattra.v. A. F.. 335 
James W.. ..335 
James W. Jr. 335 
Ray. 

Hon. J. C... .325 

Prof John W. 72, 

120. 

Winthrop G.. 121 

W. P 155 

(See 306) 

Redfield, B 347 

Capt 138 

Capt. & Mrs. 121 
Charles.. 121, .347 
Frederick H. 347 

George 347 

John H 347 

Louisa 347 

Mary H ,347 

Martha 347 

Nathaniel B. 347 

William 347 

Wyllys 347 

(See 23) 

Reedhead 347 

Reid. or Reed, 

Abel H 121 

Lieut. A 103 

Albro P 266 

David 277, 347 

Elizabeth.. .. 347 
(Jen. G. 56, 81, 103, 
139, 154, 165, 231, 
244, 347 

George 91 

George W 266 

Hattie E 266 



Col. Janifs 293 

James 91, 139, 165 
204, 266, 324, 347 

James Jr .347 

James M 347 

John 347 

Joshua 103 

Lenna Mae. .. 266 

Mamie E 347 

Martha 347 

Mary 165, 347 

Mary E 347 

Mary J 347 

Matthew.. 91, .324 

Molly 160 

Orison G 347 

Rebecca 266 

Sarah 277 

Sarah E 266 

Capt. S. H 347 

(See 243) 

Remick 158 

Remington, J.... 335 

Justin M 335 

Marianna A.. 335 

Mary S 335 

Remsheir 335 

Reynolds, A. A. 347 

• Alfred 347 

Betsey ,347 

Col. Daniel.. . 208 
Capt. David... 104 

Eliza 347 

Hannah 347 

Maria L 347 

Sarah 347 

Stephen 347 

Thomas K 347 

William 347 

Winifred 145 

Rhinehart 277 

Rice, — . N .347 

Henry F 347 

Richards, G 263 

S 203 

Richardson, A.. 131 

Adeline 347 

Caleb 131 

Charles .347 

Hon. D... 123, 131 
Rev. D. W.... 219 

Eliphalet 131 

Eliza J 132 

Elizabeth.. .. 131 

Ksther F 133 

Florence E.... 133 
Frank T. E... 274 

Harry 132 

James 347 

John 131 

Joseph 131 

Julia 347 

Lydia 131 

Mabel E 133 

Miargaret. 131, 132 

Mary 131 

Mary A.. 132, 274 

Mary C 274 

Mary H 131 

Myron 132 

Nathaniel W. 131 

Parker 131 

Reuben M 274 

Samuel 131 

Samuel R 131 

Sarah.... 131, 132 

Sarah H 132 

Sophia S 131 

Thomas 131 

Thomas J 131 

Tryphena.. .. 131 
Dr. Wm... 131. 133 

W. M 119, 132 

William P 132 

(See 81, 100, 230.) 
Richey, Richie or 
Ritchie 
Alexander.... 77 

Frances 76 

John 83, 214. 270. 
324 
Riddle, C. M.... 211 
Capt. Isaac. ..211 



Riley, A ;!47 

Eliza A 347 

James 347 

Rimbach 114 

Ring, D .347 

Helen 347 

May 347 

Ripley, G 161 

W. A 335 

Ritterbush 303 

Roach 103 

Robb 76 

Robbins, 1 347 

I- J 347 

John 347 

John W ,347 

Roberts 75 

Robertson 196 

Robey or Robie 60. 
62. 83. 324. 347 

Robinson 103 

Rogers or 
Rodgers 

Abbie H 170 

Anna B 170 

Anna C 170 

Arthur 170 

David 347 

Elizabeth F. .. 170 
Rev. G. W. T. 155. 
245 

George A 347 

Helen G 170 

Hugh 77 

Capt. James., 60, 
83. 170, 233, 324 

James A 170 

Jean 347 

Margaret 347 

Margaret F. .. 170 

Mary C 170 

Phebe 347 

Maj. Robert... 16, 
168, 213, 347 
Sarah L. . . 170, 347 

Sargent 347 

Capt. W. . . 103, 34V 

Roe 77 

Rolfe 347 

Rollins, G. F... 152, 
347 
George S.. 1.52, 153 

Rosina H 152 

Sophronia C. .347 

Sewell P 347 

Rood 187 

Reside 232 

Ross 77 

Rowe. Prof 72 

Rev. E. T. 120. 229 

Sarah E 347 

Rowell. J. P 282 

Job 319 

John 103. 282 

Joseph M 249 

William 103 

Rowly 229 

Rubies 229 

Runnels 181 

Russell. D. S.... 21 

Nathan B 335 

Rust 196 

Safford .301 

Salters 230 

Saltmarsh, D. M 
347 

Freddie F 347 

J. F 347 

Sampson, A. K. 335 

Branch 335 

Branch. Jr.... 335 

Edward 335 

Hannah W... 335 

Mary 335 

Sanborn. Capt. 20 

Edward D 122 

Kate E 320 

Mrs. L. B 196 

Mary A 274 

Rachel.... 1.30. 224 
Sanders. C. S... 347 

Ella M .347 

George B 347 






John 151. 269 

L- E. M 347 

Sargent. C 347 

Eleanor C 347 

Kliza 347 

Klla L 183 

Hiram 347 

John 347 

John S 347 

Mary 33.:; 

Mary C 347 

Moses 347 

Reuben 347 

Sarah 347 

Simon .347 

Tliomas .347 

Sartwoll 122 

Savory. A. C... 243 

Betsey 335 

Caroline 242 

•^■■isel 335 

Hannah 335 

Dea. J. 80, 158, 243 
335 

Thomas 33=; 

Sawyer, CM.. 347 

Etta M 347 

Joseph C 347 

Leonora 347 

Thomas J 347 

Saxton 347 

Schillinger 303 

Schuyler, 
Gen. 296, 303 

George L 310 

Gen. Philip... 310 

Schwartz 243 

Scobey, A 347 

Martha 118 

Matthew. ..48, 324 

Samuel 118 

William 329 

(See 34, 80) 

Scollay, C 243 

Estellae E... 243 

William 243 

Scott, A. E 347 

Rev. Elihu... 246 

E 155 

Sir Walter... 72 

Sculley ,335 

Searle, D 121 

Mary 35 

Seavey, A.J... 62 

Benjamin 110 

George A 69 

George E Ill 

Isaac L 347 

Mary H 347 

Sarah llfl 

Sefton 62 

Senter, Abel... 103 

B. F 260 

Esther 98 

John.. 60. 83, 94, 
235, 324 

Matthew ,347 

Seymour 18U 

Shadey 77 

Sharpies 210 

Shattuck, B... 325 

Brothers 171 

Daniel W 347 

Frank 347 

Lizzie 347 

Willie 347 

Shaw 64 

Shea, D 2.50 

Philip .335 

Sarah 335 

Shepard. E. H. 347 
Frederick J . . 29 

Lucy H 347 

Walter B.... 347 

William 347 

Sheldon, C. E.. 347 
Fannie R.... 347 

Reuben E 347 

Sheridan 23S 

Sherwln 288 

Shields,. 60. 80. 83. 

324 
Shiplev. A 335 



366 



WiLLErs BOOK OF NUTPIELD. 



Anna 335 

Annas M 335 

Catherine D. 335 
Charles W... 335 
Daniel... 158, 163 

Ellen 335 

George F 335 

John 335 

Joseph 335 

Mary 335 

Rebekah 335 

Shirley, C 347 

James 347 

Jane 232, 255 

William M... 347 

Shorswood 76 

Shumway, 

A. M 347 

Gifford A . . . . 347 
GiffordA.. Jr. 347 

Laura 203 

Shute, A 348 

Benjamin.... 348 

Charles E 348 

George 348 

George K 348 

James E 348 

John C 347 

Lucy J 347 

Gov. Samuel 76, 
217, 252, 270, 324 

Sarah 347 

Sarah R 348 

Wm. B... 122, 347 
Simonds.. 7, 60. 83, 

95, 213, 324 
Simons. Col.. .. 298 
Simpson, B. O. 81 

O. A 81 

Peter 77 

Skene 297, 301 

Skinner, E. W. 282 

Eliza J 282 

George W . . . . 282 

Slate, L. B 282 

L. J 282 

L. M 282 

Sleeper, J 243 

S. J 327 

Smeally 77 

Smith, A. M.... 348 

Agnes 335 

Alexander... 335 
Alden B. 151, 269 
Alden B., Jr. 348 

Almira 335 

Andrew 348 

Angeline C . . 348 

B. C 151 

Rev. C. N.. .. 196 

C 155 

Clara J 226 

C. W 122 

Charles W 348 

Clarissa M 335 

David 282 

Rev. E. A 196 

Elisha 130, 224 

E. B 81 

Elizabeth 2S2 

Emily 326 

Emma F 196 

Frank B 348 

Freddie A 348 

Hon. F. 21, 273, 312 

George B 89 

George W 348 

Henry C 130 

Hugh 335 

Isaac W... 249, 320 
James.. 63, 76, 160, 
237, 324 

Col J. C 226 

Jane ns 

Jean 63 

John... 76, 103, 118 

Joseph 282 

Julia A 348 

Julia B 348 

Lizzie A 224 

Lois 130, 282 

Mary M 218 

Mary N 23 



Nathaniel 282 

N. S 130, 224 

Olive 335 

Patrick 76 

Rachel 63, 130, 224 

Rebecca 23 

Samuel 77 

Stephen 348 

Thomas -z^^ 

Waterman 320 

William 63 

W. W 155 

Smylie. A 34s 

Francis 348 

Snell, Henry P 335 

R- T 335 

S. M 335 

Snow, Eliza.. .. 282 

Freddie L 282 

Geo. W 282 

Mabel C.. 199 

Soder 66 

Spalding or Spaul- 
ding, 

Andrew 60. 84, 213 

234, 324 

Dr. Edward 25, 278 

Hon. E 120 

Rev. Jacob F. 246 
Rev. Justin.. 196 

Sparks 3Q3 

Spinney, A. 162 28'> 

H. B ' 282 

Zillah •}%■! 

Spofford ~75 

Spollett, A. V... 348 

Frederick 34^ 

Hannah 34s 

Samuel 345 

Sprague 100 

St. Germain .... 274 

St. Leger 303 

Stafford 196 

Stanton, B. P.. 320 
Prof. John Y. 120 

Star 273 

Stark, Abby.'.'.'. 306 
A. 15, 270, 307, 324 

A. D 249 

Benjamin P.. 319 

Elizabeth 301 

Gen. John.. 2 Vn 
56, 81, 91, 104, 139' 
145, 1,51, 165, 254' 
292, 310, 325 

John Jr 319 

Molly 297 

William.. .. \c, 

Steele, A. H 348 

Arthur G 34s 

Ezekiel 221 

James.. 77, 81. 348 

Rev. J. A 246 

Margaret.. ., 348 

Martha 348 

Moses C... 348 

M. G 348 

M. S 348 

Samuel 348 

Thomas.. 7. ,S0 91 
270, 324 ■ ■ 

Sterrat 7, 91 

Steai-ns, E. M...' 30 

Jiames A 292 

John .'34,8 

Stevens, A. T. .. 239 

Alice 66 

Daniel 249 

Ephraim 319 

Mary J 348 

Plummer 34s 

Robert 76 

(See 254) 
Stewart, A. W.. 348 

Betsey R 348 

Flora 158 

James 77 

Jane 34s 

John.... 8, 80, 258 

John Jr 348 

Lucinda T. . .. 348 

Mary P 348 

Salona 335 



Stickney, A 348 

Abbie E 348 

Aaron 348 

Aaron F 34s 

Ebenezer.. .. 34s 

Hannah 34s 

Mary C 348 

Sarah A.. 166, 317 

Col 29S 

Stinson, B 348 

Charles H .348 

David 1,5 

Elizabeth.. 348 

Ella P 348 

Ida M 348 

John 348 

Mary 34j,j 

Robert 348 

Samuel io3 

Willie 348 

Stirling 77 

Stockman 77 

Stockwell 251 

Stokes 27 

Stone 243 

Storah "76 

Stoi-er 348 

Storrs 122 

Stowell, Rev 288 

David 129 

Ella 288 

Emeline F 348 

Capt. Josiah.. 348 

Laura 34s 

Strickland 122 

Straw 320 

Street 310 

Strong 122 

Stroutt 335 

Stuard, E 348 

John 348 

Mary 34s 

Suene 77 

Sullivan, E. F. 309 

Gov 165 

Frank 178 

Julia K 309 

Mary A 273 

Michael 309 

Minnie E 309 

Roger G 309 

Susan 309 

Timothy 273 

SuUoway, B. H. 108 

Betsey L 107 

Hon.C.A. 107, 273 

Greeley 107 

Swain 122 

Sweetser 121 

Swett 282 

Taber, E. S.... 348 

George E 348 

J. E 348 

L. Z 348 

Sarah J 348 

Taggart, 

Rev. Irad.. . . 246 

James 204 

Jean lis 

Niel 118 

Rose lis 

Sarah llg 

Thomas 255 

(See 34) 
Tarbell, A. C... 348 

David 76 

Hugh 76 

Thomas B 348 

Thomas W.. 348 

Tasker 196 

Taylor 
Capt. Adam.. 104 
Alexander . .. 307 

Almira A 348 

Annis 348 

Betsey A.. .. 348 
Rev. C. W. .. 156 

Clarissa 328 

Curtis 348 

Dolly 348 

Elbrie 1 348 

Eliza N 348 



Elizabeth.. .. 348 
Elizabeth P.. 348 

Ella E 348 

Emma L.. .. 229 

Ephraim 348 

Eunice 348 

Frank A 348 

Frank H.. ..348 
Frank M.. ..348 
Frederick W. 348 

George H 348 

Gertrude D.. 348 

Harriet 348 

Harriet P 348 

Harvey C. .. 348 

Hattie L 348 

Helen A 348 

Helen L 348 

Dea. Henry.. 140 
220, 271. 

Henry L 348 

Ida L 348 

James. . . 140 271 

307,. 

Dea. James C. 81 

138, 140, 215, 271. 

Jane 34s 

Jennette.. ., 348 
Lieut. John.. 155 
Elder John. .. 348 

John A 348 

John B 348 

Judith B 348 

Lucinda 348 

Lydia 34s 

Margaret 243 

Mary 34s 

Mary E 140 

Mary M 348 

Matthew. 215, 307 

Nancy 348 

Nancy C 348 

Nathaniel 348 

Paul 348 

Persis 140 

Robert 114 

Robert 2d 348 

Robert 3d 348 

'Samuel 348 

Lieut. Sam'l.. 348 
Dr. S. H. ..119, 121 
122, 140, 229. 

Sally S4S 

Sarah 34s 

Walter D 348 

William 348 

Willie 1 348 

Tenney, A 333 

Arley P 243 

Asa 335 

Rev. Charles.. 120 
Chas. A.. 187, 243 

David 335 

Eliza 243 

Franklin 269 

Mary J 145 

Mary A 335 

'Molly 335 

iPersis 335 

Tewksbury, 

Dr. Jerome. .. ISO 

Miary I80 

M. W 72 

Thayer 29 

Thomas, Jas 348 

Rev.W. H.. 196 

Zylpha 348 

Thom, C 114 

C. IS 348 

D. A. M 81 

Elizabeth H.. 348 
Elizabeth P.. 348 
Elizabeth W.. 348 
'Gen. George.. .121 

George Jr 348 

George L 348 

Harriet E 348 

Dr. Isaac. 119, 121 
324. 

Isaac Jr 348 

Isabel 348 

Oapt. James.. 119 



James Jr 348 

James A 348 

John A 348 

Judith 348 

Julia S 348 

Lucia G 348 

Mary A 348 

Mary L 348 

Mary P 34s 

Nathaniel.... 348 

Persis 348 

Persis B 348 

Sarah 348 

Sarah P 348 

'William 34s 

William A.. .. 348 
William S.. . . 348 
'See page 230.) 
Thompson, A. P. 349 

Adams 76 

Ann S 349 

Archibald M. 349 
Benjamin.... 349 

Clarissa 23 

Frances 335 

Isabel 349 

James of Ire- 
land 76 

James, Jr. . .. 77 
Dea. James.. 91, 
270, 272, 324 

Jane 101 

Jeremiah 76 

John lis, 335 

John H 349 

Capt. Joshua 103 

Lucy A 349 

Margaret 118 

Martha lis 

Mary 349 

Molly 349 

Naomi S 349 

Peter 7b 

Robert of Ire- 
land 76 

Robert us 

Col. Robert.. 323 
Robert, Jr... 335 

Samuel 103 

Sarah us 

Rev. Thomas 53, 
108 

W. 83, 114, 214, 324 
(See page 34.) 
Thomson, Geo. 77 

James 76 

Rev. Thomas 349 

Thonson 77 

Thornton, Col. 62 

James 349 

Joshua 62, 324 

Hon. Matthew SO, 
149, 322 

Thurston 282 

Thwing... 182, 183, 

187 
Tilton, C. M... 263 

Rutus 155 

Timon 178 

Tindall 239 

Tinglof 227 

Titcomb, B 349 

Eliza J 349 

Mary 349 

Phoebe 349 

Simeon 349 

Todd, Andrew. 84, 
96, 94, 97, 160, 324 

Lieut. A 236 

Daniel 222 

Lieut. John.. 103 

Ebenezer 349 

Elizabeth.... 349 
Capt. James. 349 

Mary 349 

Rachel 349 

Samuel 234 

Serg. Samuel 103 

Willie 349 

Toleman 278 

Tolford. H 255 

Maj. John.... 232 
Mary R 347 



Mary 232 

Susannah 340 

William ; 232 

Tomson 77 

Tonson 77 

Topliff ' 107 

Towle 63 

Towns. A. M . . . . 243 
Arthur J. C .243 

Charlotte 335 

Elizabeth 335 

Jabez 158, 235 

John 335 

John C 243 

Mary 243 

Moses 335 

Moses M 335 

Sarah E 335 

Susannah 335 

'Tracy 349 

Train 22$ 

Trickey 195 

Trotter 77 

Trow 309 

Troy 349 

True, A. J 349 

Clara 349 

C. W 63 

Hale 349 

Henry W 349 

John 349 

Juliette 273 

Levi 349 

Tucker, A 119 

Alanson Jr.. .. 349 

Alice 335 

Eliza 349 

Lieut. Gilbert 349 

Helen 349 

Mary 335 

Mori-is 335 

Rolinda 349 

Sarah 349 

William 121 

(See page 230.) 

Tuff 349 

Tuttle, <J. B . . . . 263 

George T 120 

Twitohell, Dr.. 68 

L. F 122 

Tyler... 8, S3, 91, 270 
307. 

Tyrconnel 50 

Tyson 2O6 

Underhill 349 

Underwood, G.. 349 
Judge James.. 211 

Mary E 349 

Sarah 211 

Upton, 
Lieut. George 263 

Joseph 122 

Mary A 349 

Mary J 349 

Nancy 332 

Samuel 249 

Vance. John. ... 103 

Nancy 349 

Sarah 349 

William 349 

William Jr.. . . 349 

Varney 273 

Vaudreuil 187 

Vaughan 86 

Vickery, C 282 

Joseph 244 

Roxana 282 

Sarah 280 

Vining 263 

Vose 196 

Wiadsworth, C. 202 

David 302 

Capt. David.. 202 

Mary E 202 

Wain Wright.. 61, 62 

Wakefield 121 

Walas 76 

Waldenstrom... 227 

Waldron, R.. 83, 113 

Richard Jr. ... 84 

Shiadrack 84 

(See 86; 



WILLEY'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 



Walker, Alex. S, 11, 
83, 258 

James 77 

Rebekah 287 

Elder R.... 77, 349 

Robert Jr 77 

Col. Seth 349 

Sophia 203 

Temperance.. 349 

William 77 

Wallace. A. N.. 349 

Addie 243 

Agnes 349 

Col. A. C 239 

Ann lis 

Annas 118 

Barbara... 33, 118 
Rev. Cyrus W 1S7, 
256, 278, 320 

Edwin P 349 

Edwin R 349 

Elizabeth. 118. 328 
Elizabeth A.. 187 
Frederick.. .. 256 

Fred A 256 

Fred L. . . . 228, 256 

George 349 

George P 2.56 

Hannah 349 

Hannah G.... 335 
Capt. J.. .. 80. 118 
James.... 243, 249 

Jane M 218 

John 80, 84, 93, 118, 
160, 233. 258, 324 
Jonathan.. .. 103 
Josephine.. .. 256 

Lulu B 256 

Margaret A... 256 

Martha 349 

Mary 118 

Mary E 243 

Mary W 243 

Matthew 349 

Mercy F 187 

Perley 243 

Rebecca 118 

Oapt. Robert.. 118 

Robert 243 

Samuel 118 

Sarah 124 

Sarah E 256 

S. G 241. 243 

S. A 18f 

Thomas. .. 33, 80, 
lis, 187, 272 
Dr. Thomas.. 349 
William. .. 33, 80, 
118, 221 

Lieut. Wm... 349 
William P... 243 
(See 34, 329) 
W'allingford ,. 88 

Watson 77 

Walton 270 

TVameset Ind.. 190 
Warde, 

Mother F 109 

W^ardwell 122 

Warner, Rev.. 187 
Benjamin.. .. 72 

Benj. Jr 349 

Benj. F 229 

Col 296, 302 

Betsey B 338 

Daniel 349 

George L 349 

George N 349 

George W . . . . 349 

Harriet 349 

Henry S 349 

Horace 349 

Jane C 349 

Jane H 349 

John 349 

John Jr 349 

John C 349 

Jonathan . . . . 34? 



Lucy 349 

Margaret.. .. 349 

Martha 349 

Mary L 349 

Ensign Nath. 349' 
Nathaniel 80, ISO 

Sarah 349 

Susan 349 

William C... 349 
(See 270) 

Warren, E 292 

AVashington . . . 121 

Wat 76 

Waterman, E.. 349 

Farm 176 

John 349 

Luither 349 

Sarah E 349 

Watson. A 77 

Watts. A. E. .. 291 

Caleb M 282 

Daniel 335 

D. M 335 

Esther 335 

Frank H 282 

Hattie M.. .. 282 

Horace 290 

Horace P 19 

Hugh 103 

Capt. James 335 

James 282 

Jenny 335 

John 335 

John Jr 335 

Joshua C. ..282 
Margaret.. .. 282 

Maria 335 

M. J 282 

Martha M 282 

Meriam 282 

Moses.... 103. lis 

Peggy ns 

Polly 335 

Susannah. . . . 335 

Wear, N S9 

Hon. N 89 

Robert.. 7. 12, 61, 
76, 83. 95, 104, 161, 
258, 260 
Weaver, A. A.. 349 

Alden T 349 

Gilbert 349 

Nettie B 349 

Webb 192 

Webber 320 

Webster, B 349 

C. C 349 

Charles P 105 

Daniel.... 188. 318 

David C 335 

Ellen A 105 

Etta L 349 

George A 105 

Hannah 349 

James.. .. 105, 199 

James H 105 

John E 105 

Jonathan. 290. 291 

Joseph 121 

Julia S 105 

Lydia 349 

Maria E 335 

Maria H 105 

Martha J 108 

Mary A 335 

Mary F 105 

Moses 199 

Phineas .349 

Roxana .335 

S. A 105 

Stephen B.... 349 

Susan A 187 

William W. .. 349 

Weeks 270 

Welch. C 349 

Gertrude 349 

James 251 

Joseph 349 



Wellman. A. D. 38 

Arthur H 38 

Edward W... 38 

Ellen H 38 

Dea. J. R 37 

Rev. J. W. 37, 121, 
136, 141, 229 
Phebe W 37 

Wells, A. T 229 

Rev. Charles.. 218 

Horace N 218 

Capt. H 218 

Joshua 218 

Joshua, Jr 218 

Lamson 218 

Welsteed 78 

Wentworth, 

Asa 250 

Gov. B.... 84, 297 

Henry T 250 

Horace 250 

Gov. Johr( 9. 60, 

322 

Lieut. Gov. 

John, Jr... 84, 91, 

215, 232, 270, 324 

Col. Mark H. 85 

West. A. M . . . . 349 

Franklin 349 

M. E 349 

Westbrook 84 

Weston, Amos 319 
Gov. James.. 319 
Sophia 212 

Wetherbee, 

G. B 282 

Capt. Hezek'h 282 

Sarah E 282 

Susan A 282 

William B.,.. 282 

Whalley, the 
regicide 237 

Wheaton 237 

Wheeler, A. D. 264 
Adeline G.. .. 264 
Caroline F... 166 
Caroline M . . . 166 
Charles F.... 264 
Charles G . . . . 349 
Charles H.... 282 
Elizabeth W. 166 

Oilman A 261 

Hannah 166 

Henry S. 167, 288 

Henry T 264 

Henrietta O.. 166 

Horace F 264 

James S 282 

Joshua F 248 

J. C 134 

Lucy C 349 

Maria H 288 

Marv A 166 

Mary L 248 

Rebecca 349 

Rebecca G . . . 282 

Sarah E 166 

Thaddeus 166 

Tilly H 282 

Wheelwright. 

Col. John 60, 78, 
83, 161, 188, 213, 
271, 324 

Whidden, A. M. 282 

Adeline 282 

Alice 224 

Caleb F 263 

Elbridge G... 282 

Ellen M 224 

Esther F 133 

E. R 224 

George M 282 

Hannah 282 

John 349 

John P 224 

Joshua 282 

J. W 224 

Mary A 282 

Mary F 282 



Mary J 349 

Mary P 224 

Michel 28i 

Rufus M 282 

Samuel 349 

Whitcomb 224 

White, E. W... 335 
Elizabeth..., 335 

Ella A 317 

Ephraim 103 

Esther 248 

Hannah 317 

H. M 166, 317 

Henry 269 

Isaac 335 

John 317 

John F 317 

Joseph.. 166. 288, 
307, 317 

Joseph W.... 31T 
Melinda N... 317 
Nelson... 121, 224 
Rachel... 188, 224 
Reub. 188, 224, 269 

Ruel 80, 224 

Samuel 224 

Samuel G.... 224 

Sarah 349 

Sarah A. 166, 317 

Sarah E 256 

Thomas 103 

Capt. W. 121, 256 

Whitefield 139 

Whitehouse 67 

Whiteley, A. D. 47 

John T 47 

Marv J 47 

Whiting 103 

Whitney. E. N. 64 

Henry M 171 

Henrv S 249 

Mary A.. 29, 182 
Myron W.... 329 

Susannah 339 

Whittemore, 

A, L 243 

Hannah J.... 281 

James 151 

Rev. J. L. 21. 243 

Louis G 243 

Mary H 349 

Peter 349 

Pew 158 

R. P 281 

Whittier, D. 70, 162 

S. R .349 

Whorf. A 335 

Benjamin F.. 243 

Ella V 335 

Emma J 335 

Etta 335 

Hattie M 243 

John M 335 

Juliette 243 

Sarah M 335 

Shuah 243 

Wibbard 84 

Wibird 85, 86 

Widborn 76 

Wiear 118 

Wier 221 

Wight. Agnes.. 349 

Isabel 349 

John of Ire- 
land ^ 76 

John 349 

Joseph 76 

Wilcomb 251 

Wilcox 335 

Wiley. E. E 243 

Ephraim A... 243 

George B 243 

Lucv E 243 

Mary A 243 

Mary B 243 

Nancy A 243 

Sarah E 243 

Vertie 243 

Wilkins. J. M.. 326 



Harriet 335 

Hiram 335 

Jerusha 335 

Elizabeth 335 

(See page 390.) 

Willard 122 

Willey, A. J 268 

Mrs. A. J 268 

Charles F 26S 

Elizabeth 243 

Henr>' 349 

Jacob N 224 

Nelson S 269 

Rachel T 224 

Vowell 243 

William. 
TheConqueror 
48, 327 

Col 16, 296 

Addie M .3,50 

C. B 122 

Rev. J. A 196 

Jesse 203 

Roger 189 

William J 2.50 

Willis 230 

Wilson, A. D... 102 

Abigail 350 

Adeline 349 

Adeline A 349 

A. J 350 

Albert 349 

Alexander.. .. 349 

Agnes 238 

Anna 350 

Anna A 180 

Anna P 349 

Belinda M.... 102 
Benjamin.. 11, 84, 
93, 160, 324 
Benjamin, Jr. 349 
Benjamin F. . 349 

Betsey 349 

Clarissa H.... 349 

D. of Ireland. 76 

David 76, 151 

David B 102 

Elizabeth.. 84, 94, 
160. 324 
Elizabeth G.. 349 

George 349 

George W 102 

Grisey 243 

Grisel 349 

Hugh 292, 324 

J. of Ireland.. 77 
James 64. 101. 112. 
121, 160, .324 
Lieut. James. 1.58 
Black J... 102. 324 
Curly J... 102, 324 
J. of Ireland.. 76 

John 231, 324 

John P 101 

Mrs. John P.. 101 

John A 349 

John E .349 

Janet 349 

Jean 349 

Joseph 118 

Joseph G 349 

Capt. Leonard 180 

Margaret 350 

Mary.. 84, 160. 243 

Marv L 231 

Mary K 349 

Mehitable,... 349 

Naomi 3.50 

Nathaniel.... 231 
Rebecca.. 118, 3,50 
Rebecca P — 349 
Robert 76, 83, 101, 
324 

Capt. Robert. 349 

Samuel 76 

Sarah .... 340. 350 
Susannah A... 349 
Thomas 76, 81. 101 
Thomas H.... 349 



367 

William 76, 77, 83. 
214, 217 

William, H 3.50 

Wise, D 350 

Wiseman, E 131 

Witherspoon .. 99 
AA'onalancet 

Indians 191 

Wood, H 350 

Dr. Jacob.. .. 350 

John 350 

Joanna J 350 

Woodburn, 

Lieut, Benj,. 335 

Charles 333 

David 98. 118, 166, 
335. 

Ellen 350 

Frances A. .. .335 

George \\' 335 

James 350 

James G 333 

Jane 335 

John. .. 84, 94, 98, 
160, 235, 324. 

John Jr 335 

Luclnda 335 

Lucretia 335 

Margaret.. .. 118 

Mary 140. 165 

Mary A 333 

Mehitable.. .. 335 

Samuel 335 

Wot)dburv 

A. and fi 81 

Benjamin F.. 335 
Charles W. .. 335 
James G... 72, 75 

John A 335 

Judge L. , 72, 319 

Louisa 173 

Oliver G 257 

Samuel ,335 

Samuel L.. .. 335 
W. E.. .. 173, 174 

Woodman 77 

Woods, H. M... 196 

Munroe 269 

Noah 121 

Woodward. A.. 3.50 
Capt. Augus. 3.50 

Mary 3.50 

Worthen 318 

Worthlngton .. 114 

Wyatt 28. 3.50 

Wyckoflf. E.... 243 

Emma 243 

Joseph A.. ..243 

J. E 243 

M 243 

Wyman, M.. .. .343 

P 37 

Wvse, S 70 

Young, A. M... 263 
Charles E.... 3.35 

Charles L 333 

Charles W... .333 
Elizabeth.. .. 335 
Emeline P... 247 

Ephraim 333 

Ephraim J. .. 333 
George A.. ..196 

Hugh 330 

Israel 282 

James 333 

. Jane 243 

Jane H 247 

John P 247 

John S 249 

LllUe 335 

Martha 123 

Martha P .333 

Margaret.. .. 350 
Nathan P.... 335 

Samuel 77 

Sarah G 3.35 

Wesley 335 

Zeklel 64, 65. 



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